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Justice Minister Anna Koukkides – Prokopiou informed her EU counterparts of the creation of an independent authority to monitor the implementation of EU sanctions in Cyprus, during the second day of ...

Moscow and Kyiv both reported heavy fighting in Ukraine on Friday, with bloggers describing the first sightings of German and U.S. armour, signalling that Ukraine’s long-anticipated counterattack was ...

Artificial Intelligence is in our lives and we must exploit it in a positive manner, Dr Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath, said on Friday. ...

The knife attack on toddlers in a French Alpine town, suspected to have been carried out by a Syrian refugee, has thrown a spotlight on President Emmanuel Macron’s struggles ...

Ypsonas mayor was at loggerheads with a tyre pyrolysis factory on Friday over the feared health risks it may bring to the area and its residents. The company has rubbished ...

The European Commission is working on plans to speed up investment in capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions, it said on Friday, as the bloc prepares to slash its net ...

Wildfires spread in the western Canadian province of British Columbia on Friday, while in the east, Quebec said it would start efforts to control blazes that have sent smoke billowing ...

Turkish security forces seized $1 billion of counterfeit money in Istanbul and arrested six people involved in the operation, including one Ghanian and three Swedish nationals, the governor’s office said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday decided to strengthen the committee of ethics and safeguarding in sports amidst a spike in match-fixing allegations. The members of the committee informed the president ...

Leaving its mark on Cyprus’ summer entertainment for the second consecutive year, and celebrating 20 years of Nammos World, Nammos Limassol is preparing for a thrilling night on June 23, 2023, full of ...

A teenager was hospitalised on Friday after he was stabbed in the abdomen and neck by a peer in an internet café in Limassol. A 17-year-old boy pulled a knife ...

Lord David Hannay, a former UK envoy for the Cyprus issue ruffled some feathers at the Cyprus investment conference in London on Friday, referring to Cyprus as a place of ...

Reports that specialist doctors working under Gesy illegally charge their patients extra for earlier appointments prompted the medical association to call for an investigation on Friday. The health insurance organisation (...

Sek union on Friday urged President Nikos Christodoulides to improve labour relations across the job market, while expanding benefits such as the cost of living allowance (CoLA) and provident funds. ...

Coming up in Pissouri is an exhibition that puts the local production of wine in the spotlight. The Pissouri Community Council, in collaboration with the Cyprus Winemakers’ Association and the ...

The anti-poaching unit will be re-established following a relevant cabinet decision, it emerged on Friday. The move comes to satisfy a long-standing demand by animal activists who have been warning ...

Evidence was growing on Friday that there was an explosion at the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine around the time it collapsed, according to Ukrainian and U.S. intelligence reports ...

A British foreign exchange company boss who used investors’ cash to fund his luxury lifestyle was sentenced in his absence to 14 years in jail on Friday over a 70 million pound ($88 ...

Sudan’s warring sides have agreed a nationwide, 24-hour ceasefire from Saturday morning, U.S. and Saudi Arabian mediators said, following a week of intensified fighting after a previous truce ...

Cyprus cannot consider itself an energy hub despite its deposits of offshore hydrocarbons, and as long as the gas remains in the ground, it will never generate the wealth associated ...

Doctors at specific accidents and emergency departments work more hours than it is considered safe, the Pasyki public doctor’s union said on Friday. Physicians employed at the Paphos and ...

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was re-admitted to hospital in Milan for a scheduled medical checkup on Friday, just weeks after being discharged following a long stay. Berlusconi, 86, left ...

The challenges related to immigrant students will be addressed as of September, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday after she completed consultations with school headteachers. The round of discussions ...

Paraplegics in Cyprus on Friday called on MPs to make it easier to prosecute people who wrongly park in disabled spots. The Paraplegic Organisation of Cyprus sent a letter to ...