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Health ministry data published on Thursday over flu deaths wrongly included an eight-year-old child, Dr. Maria Koliou said on Friday. Speaking to the state broadcaster, Koliou said the mistake was ...

Although independent cinema from around the globe does reach the island, it is usually part of international film festivals or seasonal theatre appearances. This month though, the CVAR-Severis Foundation brings ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides and Finance Minister Makis Keravnos are in constant contact with Central Bank governor Constantinos Herodotou, following a 30 per cent slump in shares of ...

Greece encourages the UN Secretary General to make further efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem, always within the framework of the UN Security Council decisions, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias ...

The met office has issued a yellow warning for isolated and possibly heavy thunderstorms to affect Cyprus on Friday. In a tweet, it said the warning is in effect from 05:30 ...

New Zealand said on Friday it would ban TikTok on devices with access to the country’s parliamentary network due to cybersecurity concerns, becoming the latest nation to limit the ...

Visiting UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo commended the two negotiators in Cyprus for the work they are carrying out. In a message on Twitter issued by UN Cyprus, DiCarlo who met ...

The rise in interest rates is impacting many organisations’ investment portfolios, and by extension, the economy as a whole, economist and KPMG board Tassos Yiasemides said on Thursday. “The reduction ...

Large U.S. banks injected $30 billion in deposits into First Republic Bank FRC.N on Thursday, swooping in to rescue the lender caught up in a widening crisis triggered by ...

As SVB Financial Group (SIVB.O) wrestled with a capital shortfall and the prospect of a downgrade to its credit rating last week, it went to Goldman Sachs Group Inc (...

The Pentagon released a video on Thursday that it said provided evidence a Russian fighter jet clipped the propeller of a U.S. spy drone and caused it to crash ...

National Bank of Greece (Cyprus) on Thursday announced that George Agioutantis has been appointed to the position of managing director and executive member of the board of directors of the ...

A major purchase by Saudi Arabia caps sales of almost 200 Dreamliners over the past four months, handing Boeing Co (BA.N) major industrial and political wins in lucrative widebody sales ...

Labour unions in the north protested against the proposed natural disaster tax cuts to their salaries, reports said on Thursday. According to a report in Yeni Duzen, the tax cut ...

President Nicos Christodoulides has made it the style of his presidency to take an interest in most things that are in the news. The way this interest is shown is ...

Argentina’s central bank board said it agreed to hike the country’s benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 78% on Thursday after annual inflation hit 100% for the first time ...

Greater quantities of synthetic opioid fentanyl directly enter the United States and Canada than Mexico, Mexico’s president said on Thursday, pushing back against U.S. criticism of his record ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation that bars all semi-governmental bodies from paying into private health insurance, since employees in these organisations already benefit from the national health system or ...

The U.S. banking system remains sound and Americans can feel confident that their deposits are safe, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday, but she denied that emergency actions ...

The United Nations backed Turkey and Ukraine on Thursday by calling for a 120-day rollover of an agreement allowing the safe export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports ...

Manchester United cruised into the Europa League quarter-finals as Marcus Rashford’s second-half goal secured a 1-0 win at Real Betis in the last-16 second leg on Thursday to wrap ...

Legislators on Thursday hectored the government for taking its time delivering legislation to tighten up the earthquake-proofing of buildings, saying that lives are at stake – while the interior ministry responded ...

Montenegro’s President Milo Djukanovic on Thursday issued a decree dissolving the parliament, paving the way for a new parliamentary election in the Adriatic country months after he refused to ...

A Larnaca court on Thursday began extradition hearings in the case of a Kurdish national wanted by German authorities on charges of participating in a terrorist organisation. The suspect, Kenas ...