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Syria’s new defence minister said on Sunday it would not be right for U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc ...

Larnaca District Court on Sunday remanded a 45-year-old man for eight days, after he was discovered carrying 19 kg of cannabis in his luggage at the airport the day before. According ...

By Euripides Evivriades AI is not a distant challenge; it is already reshaping our economies, democracies and societies. However, the debate remains dominated by a few corporations amassing billions in ...

A truck fire in the early hours of Sunday morning was determined to be arson, police said, following the incident in Astromeritis, Nicosia.  According to police, at 4.30am, information about ...

By Leontios Ierodiakonou Last week’s article ended on a pessimistic note, about six decades having passed since the first hostilities began. Many things have changed – the displacement of a ...

Police arrested a 45-year-old man for money laundering and illegal possession, after they found him with close to €49 thousand during an attempted drug bust, an announcement said on Sunday.  According ...

EU-backed researchers and doctors are pioneering advanced pre-implantation and prenatal genetic testing to improve the chance of healthy pregnancies in at-risk families. By Vittoria D’Alessio The story of Bojana ...

Police arrested a teen, 16, in connection with an attempted murder in Limassol, where three young men were injured in a knife attack, an announcement said on Sunday. The 16-year-old boy ...

Hundreds of supporters of South Korea’s arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, stormed a court building early on Sunday after his detention was extended, smashing windows and breaking inside, an ...

The weather on Sunday will be mostly clear with temperatures set to remain stable and fall later in the week, the met office said.  According to the met office announcement, ...

Fighting in the Gaza Strip halted on Sunday as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas took effect after a brief delay, pausing a 15-month-old war that ...

Southeast Asian nations told Myanmar’s military government on Sunday its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority, urging the junta to ...

So why are the Israelis still bombing Gaza? US foreign minister Anthony Blinken was first on the Gaza ceasefire bandwagon last week. Israel and Hamas are right on the brink ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting January 13: The need for enhanced collaboration between public authorities and private enterprises was emphasised during the recently held ‘...

IF HE WAS not such a union-pandering communist, we could have felt a bit of sympathy for Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou, after he was hung out to dry by Prezniktwo, ...

High government spending and a growing need among big economies – from the United States to Britain and France – to tap bond markets to fund their outlays have shot up the ...

Generative artificial intelligence bellwether OpenAI said this week that it is introducing a beta feature called Tasks to ChatGPT, signaling the company’s foray into the virtual assistant space, competing ...

The Cyprus problem show is back. Nothing constructive or meaningful will be agreed, but that was never the objective. As has been made evident over the decades, the two sides ...

TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that takes effect Sunday requiring the shutdown of ...

US producer prices rose less than expected in December as higher costs for goods were partially offset by stable services prices, suggesting inflation remained on a downward trend. The moderation ...

Israeli high tech companies overcame a year of war and likely raised more than $12 billion in 2024, up 31 per cent from 2023, led by cyber security funding and investments in more established ...

Seemingly coming out of left field, news broke this week of Cyprus’ induction into three programmes allowing the purchase of military hardware directly from the US government. Did Nicosia hype ...

Residents of the Tillyria region on Saturday held a protest to demand that crossing points be opened to the Turkish Cypriot Kokkina exclave. The demonstrators gathered in the village of ...

Substitute Darwin Nunez’s stoppage-time double gave Liverpool a 2-0 win at Brentford on Saturday, as the Premier League leaders left it late to record their first league win of 2025. ...