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Armed police were deployed outside France’s Constitutional Council on Friday ahead of its key ruling on whether the government’s plans to lift the retirement age, which have spurred ...

Labour union Democratic Labour Federation of Cyprus (Deok) this week issued a statement expressing strong dissatisfaction with the “manifestly inadequate sentence” of suspended imprisonment imposed by the Larnaca permanent criminal ...

Hundreds of needy Cypriot families are receiving support from volunteers or local communities to put food on their table this Easter but demand is up while donations are down at ...

All the presidential candidates met the deadline for the submission of the accounts of their election campaigns to the elections registrar. The exercise is supposedly meant to serve transparency, but ...

DP Eurasia (DPEU.L), which runs the Domino’s Pizza brand in Turkey and Russia, said on Wednesday it was weighing options for its Russian business after reporting a rise ...

Turkey’s central bank has been urging banks in recent weeks to avoid steps that could create demand for foreign currency as May elections loom, and to instead focus on ...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene to stop restrictions set by a federal judge on the abortion ...

The FBI on Thursday arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard, over the leaks online of classified documents that embarrassed Washington with allies ...

Union activists barged into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH on Thursday, saying the French government should shelve plans to make people work longer for their pension and ...

General stores will operate on Good Friday and Easter Saturday, but must close by 6pm, the labour ministry said on Thursday ahead of the Orthodox Easter weekend. On Easter Sunday ...

Candidates for political office must name their donors, otherwise they have broken the law, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has said. He made the comments on Twitter, a day after President Nikos ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday referred back to parliament a law it passed in late March regarding the handling of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south, deeming the legislation unconstitutional. ...

The head of Tibet’s government-in-exile on Thursday defended the Dalai Lama over footage of him asking a boy to suck his tongue, saying the incident had demonstrated the country’...

Australia‘s northwest region, home to the world’s largest iron ore export hub, braced on Thursday for the area’s most powerful tropical cyclone in a decade, as a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides hastily convened a meeting at the palace on Thursday evening to discuss US and UK sanctions that have led to a punishing blow to Cypriot individuals and ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday floated the idea of importing natural gas quantities from reservoirs in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, to be used for power generation, coupled with exports ...

The Embassy of Israel in Cyprus, in collaboration with BPRarts Cultural Management, presents the photographic exhibition ‘Diversity: A State of mind’ by renowned Israeli photographers Natan Dvir and Gabi Ben ...

The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the United States for now but with significant restrictions, including a requirement for in-person doctor visits to obtain the drug, a federal ...

Premier League clubs have collectively agreed to stop featuring gambling sponsorships on the front of football kits from the 2026-27 season, the English top-flight league said on Thursday. Eight of ...

A 56-year-old foreign national reported to the police that he had to be hospitalised after being beaten by his landlord and two others who entered the house while he was ...

U.S. President Joe Biden, a proud Irish-American, took his three-day tour of Ireland to Dublin on Thursday where he met the country’s president and prime minister ahead of ...

Ukraine’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 29.1 per cent in 2022 as Russia’s full-scale invasion battered the economy, the state statistics service said late on Wednesday. The final 2022 GDP ...

Meat prices are up 25 per cent compared with the Easter holiday period last year but Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Thursday he cannot interfere with the laws of the ...

Comfortable as it may have been for Real Madrid in their 2-0 win over Chelsea in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said his team ...