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Cyprus’ capital city boasts just four per cent of tree coverage Whenever a data collection company releases a table of statistics regarding tree coverage or green spaces in European cities, ...

British cabinet minister Grant Shapps on Sunday emphasised the mounting costs of plans for a high-speed rail line serving northern England, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may decide to formally ...

The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will leave for Armenia as they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region ...

A pilot programme in Larnaca has seen numbers of the pests reduced A programme to battle increasing numbers of mosquitos on the island is already showing results, with a notable ...

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested seven more people in connection with a n investigation to the forgery of medical prescriptions, reports from the north said on Sunday. The seven arrests ...

Ethnic Serb gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in north Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a monastery in a resurgence of violence in the restive ...

ELENI PHILIPPOU looks forward to the 14th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival in Nicosia next month The Pharos Arts Foundation returns to The Shoe Factory in October to present the 14...

The Nicosia-Troodos road was closed temporarily in both directions on Sunday afternoon due to an accident, police said. The accident involving a bus and two cars, happened near the Evrychou ...

An on-duty police officer and another man who were killed by a car on Friday night on the Larnaca-Ayia Napa highway, both died from multiple injuries, post mortems on Sunday ...

Police task force cracking down on illegal trade With drug busts on an almost daily basis and increasingly large stashes found, the island’s police drugs task force has painted ...

A German plan to finance charities helping migrants in the Mediterranean causes difficulties for Italy, defence minister Guido Crosetto said on Sunday, as Rome tries to enforce tougher measures to ...

Authorities in Iran have neutralised 30 bombs meant to go off simultaneously in Tehran and detained 28 terrorists linked to Islamic State, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday, citing the ...

Police confirmed reports on Sunday that they maintain a list of foreign nationals suspected of possible links to terrorist groups abroad. In statements to the Cyprus News Agency following a ...

The geopolitical tensions in recent years have taken a toll on the climate of cooperation, especially between major countries. The global economy is rather sluggish, financing conditions have worsened, while ...

Organic production in Cyprus has made huge strides in the past two decades, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Sunday during the first annual organic farming festival in Denia. The ...

The north’s universities are facing crises ahead of the start of the new academic year in October, with financial and administrative issues plaguing its largest academic institutions. The Eastern ...

Jack Straw’s comments in the article Former British foreign secretary calls for two-state solution to Cyprus problem (September 7, 2023) present an inaccurate narrative riddled with omissions. Straw singles out Cyprus ...

An out-of-court fine of €1,500 was imposed on a 61-year-old man found to be in possession of a quantity of duty-free tobacco products, police said. According to police, the man was ...

Xenophon Kallis, head of the missing persons service at the foreign ministry for many years, has passed away at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, CyBc reported ...

In a ten-day tour of China, Jonathan Shkurko welcomes the serenity efficiency brings, and the outstanding flavours of its rich and varied cuisine In the grand mosaic of China’s ...

Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead By Tamsin Phillipa Paige Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...

Dear Nikos and Ersin, Hello. We are Doga and Liana: two Cypriot teenagers from both sides of the divide. In light of the general assembly in New York, we are ...

Paphos police are investigating an attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday in the village of Psathi, they said. According to police, a 31-year-old man was shot at around 5.30...

The optimism growing around manager Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur squad will be put to its stiffest test yet when they visit Arsenal for Sunday’s North London Derby. Despite ...