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By Maria Demosthenous Embracing change: the learning and practice of music helps develop many of the skills needed in an ever more digital world As we navigate an era of ...

Israel’s spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in ...

Calling all theatre and performance art lovers, the Cyprus Theatre Museum joins festivities around the globe that celebrate World Theatre Day on March 27. The day also coincides with the museum’...

In today’s episode, dignitaries from 35 countries and representatives of various international organisations descended on Larnaca for a meeting over the Amalthea initiative – Cyprus’ humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza. Meanwhile, ...

Police on Friday announced the arrest of three men in connection with an armed robbery in an Ayia Napa hotel. The trio, aged 25, 23, and 22 years old, stand accused of conspiracy ...

There are no cases of measles in the north, ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek said on Thursday night. Dincyurek was speaking after a total of six cases of measles were detected ...

Police in Paphos have successfully busted a document forging ring, Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he said the ...

A bomb exploded in the Pernera area of Paralimni in the early hours of Friday morning. The bomb had been placed outside a nightclub at around 2am. The resulting explosion ...

Friday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear, though increased cloud cover is expected in the afternoon, with isolated rain to fall in the southeast of the island. Temperatures ...

Minister of Labour Yiannis Panayiotou said this week that proficiency in Greek will play a pivotal role in the approval of renewed work permits and for new foreign applicants. Acknowledging ...

The Swiss National Bank cut its main interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.50 per cent on Thursday, a surprise move which made it the first major central bank to dial ...

Norway’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high of 4.50 per cent on Thursday, as unanimously expected by analysts, and signalled it plans a single ...

Brazil is expected to post its third annual increase in coffee production this year, a rare sequence seen only seven times in 144 years of coffee history in the world’s ...

A man injured by the 2011 Mari blast was awarded increased damages following a Supreme Court decision, it emerged on Thursday. His appeal of a 2020 court decision was partially accepted by ...

The issue of the disclosure of the personal assets of politically exposed persons (PEP) has been going on for years. Not even the passing of two laws, stipulating the submission ...

The United States will bring a U.N. draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Israel-Hamas hostage deal to a Security Council vote on Friday morning, ...

Lawmakers in Venezuela allied with the government of President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday approved the creation of a new state in a territory that is the subject of a long ...

A 62-year-man with end-stage renal disease has become the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced on ...

The United States and Saudi Arabia have made “good progress” in talks on normalising ties between the kingdom and Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday ...

Canada plans to reduce its temporary residents and set a cap on temporary immigration for the first time ever, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Thursday, the latest government effort ...

Ukraine could dismantle within days its “sponsors of war” blacklist, central to Kyiv’s campaign to expose companies doing business with Russia, after a backlash from countries including China and ...

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Cyprus is back on track and should be finished by the end of the year, China’s ambassador to Cyprus said on Thursday. “...

Theologian Theodoros Kyriacou confirmed on Thursday that he provided testimony regarding a sexual harassment complaint filed by a former employee against the head of the beleaguered Osiou Avakoum monastery. Kyriacou ...

A criminal court on Thursday sentenced a man to six years in prison, having earlier found him guilty on the charge of possessing child pornography. The decision was handed down ...