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Israeli warplanes pounded the northern Gaza strip for a second day on Wednesday in a fierce assault that has shattered weeks of comparative calm, and Israel said it was moving ...

The ‘war’ between the legal service and audit office is creating a climate of intimidation, the latter charged on Wednesday, as steps to remove auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides from his post ...

A Belgian man was acquitted of drunk driving on Monday because he suffers from auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, his lawyer said. Anse Ghesquiere ...

It is almost time to start looking ahead to the summer months when all sorts of exciting events happen. Festivals, fiestas and concerts are on the horizon and some musicians ...

Concerns over unpaid salaries for employees at the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) were raised during Wednesday House education committee meeting, with committee head and Diko MP Pavlos Mylonas saying ...

MPs on Thursday proposed six bills aimed at regulating the issue of multiple pensions and the retirement age limit for state officials during a House ethics committee meeting. The six ...

Greece‘s Supreme Court banned on Wednesday the far-right Spartans party from running in this year’s elections for the European Parliament, the Athens News Agency reported. A legal source ...

An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for charges linked to Iran‘s 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told Iranian newspaper Sharq on Wednesday. Salehi ...

Liverpool have lined up Feyenoord coach Arne Slot as successor to departing manager Juergen Klopp and have opened negotiations with the Eredivisie club, Dutch media reported on Wednesday. The Algemeen ...

A total of 30 political parties, trade unions, and other organisations in the north will hold a mass protest on Friday evening. Protestors will gather at the top of northern Nicosia’...

The Ministry of Energy has announced a call for proposals under the grant scheme for energy upgrading and boosting the competitiveness of large businesses, totalling €17 million, funded by the European ...

Influencer and YouTuber Fidias Panayiotou said he hopes his independent candidacy to June’s European Parliament elections “will bring something new and different for voters.” Speaking to the media on ...

A total of 63 candidacies were submitted at the Filoxenia conference centre in Nicosia on Wednesday for the European Parliament elections that will take place June 9. According to Chief Returning Officer ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill addressing deficits of the state health services (Okypy), granting them a one-year extension. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the initial law specified the state ...

A Russian Orthodox priest who led a memorial service last month at the grave of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been suspended from clerical duties and ordered to serve ...

Wednesday marked exactly 20 years since a referendum was held on whether to reunite Cyprus under the Annan plan on April 24, 2004. While the majority – 65 per cent – of Turkish Cypriots voted in ...

Cyprus was among 10 other countries which were honoured at a ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate 20 years since acceding to the European Union, ahead of the May 1 anniversary. At a moving ...

By Andria Kades and Jonathan Shkurko The fire raging since 9.50am on Wednesday in the Limassol state forest, between the villages of Vasas Kellakiou and Asgata, has been brought under ...

The EU Commission on Wednesday sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus for failing to correctly incorporate EU legislation that covers money laundering and financial interests. An announcement details that Cyprus, ...

London-based investment fund Helikon Investments Limited has raised its stake in the Bank of Cyprus, according to an announcement by the bank. The Italian investment fund disclosed that its voting ...

Some Palestinian civilians were fleeing their homes in northern Gaza on Wednesday just weeks after returning because of an Israeli bombardment which they said was as intense as those at ...

Attacks against migrants, refugees and LGBT people in Greece surged to their highest level in nearly a decade last year, a report by the Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) ...

Consider this: Barbie, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift. This trio isn’t just reshaping pop culture, they are redefining economic power in ways we cannot ignore. It’s a trend that surged ...

Levels of dust in Cyprus’ atmosphere are not expected to reach the levels seen in Greece in recent days, the met office said on Wednesday. “Some of the [dust] cloud ...