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In 2021, a total of 282 social care programmes by NGOs received more than €12.7 million in government support, helping them to partially cover their operating costs, Deputy Minister of Social Welfare Anastasia ...

Formula One executives and team bosses were briefed by Brad Pitt at the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on Friday as plans for a movie based on the ...

Russian occupation authorities in the Ukrainian city of Kherson told civilians on Saturday they should leave immediately because of what they called the tense military situation as Ukraine’s forces ...

Lionel Messi says Argentina to not fear any team at the World Cup but he urged fans to stay calm with the tournament in Qatar less than a month away. ...

Tens of thousands of protesters in six German cities gathered on Saturday to demand a more just distribution of government funds to deal with rising energy prices and living costs ...

Critical infrastructure across Ukraine was pounded by more than a dozen Russian missiles on Saturday, the Ukrainian air force said, with several regions reporting strikes on energy facilities and power ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday congratulated the new prime minister of Italy, saying he looks forward to working together within the European family. “Congratulations to Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new ...

Nottingham Forest stunned Liverpool as Taiwo Awoniyi sealed a 1-0 win with a second-half goal to lift the Midlands club off the foot of the Premier League table on Saturday. ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called on Islamic leaders to unite in the face of attacks against the Muslim population in Cyprus. Speaking at the Islamic conference of information ministers ...

Chinese former President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of the closing ceremony of a congress of the ruling Communist Party on Saturday. Hu, 79, Xi Jinping’s immediate predecessor, was ...

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two. She ...

By Michele Ruyters, Greg Stratton and Jarryd Bartle Netflix’s recent series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has stirred controversy over its apparent glamourisation of a serial killer and perceived ...

A week-long informational and policing campaign focusing on trucks and buses, held between October 10 and 16 saw more than 200 fines being handed out, police said on Saturday. The campaign, which was ...

Police have reportedly proceeded with charging the owner of the crossbreed Savannah cat that died in August of this year after undergoing surgery while in the care of authorities over ...

Vaccines are one of humanity’s most effective weapons against a rising number of illnesses, helping to safeguard public health, director general of the health ministry Christina Yiannaki said on ...

Stakeholders will start the debate on the 2023 state budget at the house finance committee on Monday, with final decisions expected in early December. In a challenging international economic environment and ...

The acts of violence that have recently been recorded at a Limassol high school were on Saturday condemned by the Pancyprian Federation of Parents’ Associations, which said they tarnish the ...

International rating agency Capital Intelligence on Saturday announced that it has upgraded the long-term rating of Cyprus in foreign currency to “BBB-“, from “BB+”. At the same time, the agency ...

A campaign to promote breastfeeding in Cyprus was launched by the health ministry on Saturday. The campaign aims to inform about the benefits of breastfeeding for both the mother and ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to warn Russia not to blow up a dam that would flood a large area of southern Ukraine, as his forces prepared to ...

US health regulators on Friday estimated that BQ.1 and closely related BQ.1.1 accounted for 16.6% of coronavirus variants in the country, nearly doubling from last week, while Europe expects them to ...

Cyprus’ fiscal deficit reached €408 mln in 2021 and the fiscal debt corresponded to 101 per cent of GDP, the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) announced on Friday. Announcing the financial results for 2021, which ...

Boris Johnson arrived back in Britain on Saturday as he considers an audacious attempt to win a second term as prime minister only weeks after he was forced to step ...

A total of €1,670 was robbed from a business under the threat of a knife in Nicosia on Friday evening, police said on Saturday. According to the police, an employee present ...