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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled it will not initially get involved in the extradition of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz to Germany, lawyer and MP Kostis Efstathiou ...

In the course of Shy, Max Porter’s fourth novel, the eponymous first-person narrator identifies the following languages: ‘night-end’, ‘badger’ and ‘heartsore’. It’s telling of a book about how ...

June is just around the corner, and Rialto Theatre is staying true to its mission to provide a platform for cultural productions in the first month of summer with a ...

In today’s episode, Deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides delivered a stinging verbal attack on the auditor-general, whom he accused of a deliberate and concerted campaign to blacken his name, vowing ...

The national guard and armed forces on Tuesday will conduct training activities within the Nicosia flight information region (FIR), the Ministry of Defence announced. The exercises will involve the participation ...

Police on Tuesday arrested an 18-year-old man for theft of money and interference in judicial proceedings. According to police spokesman and head of Paphos CID Michalis Nikolaou, on February 15, a 30...

Juventus on Monday were docked 10 points for the current Serie A season after a new ruling by an Italian soccer court in a case centered on the club’s transfer ...

One man has been arrested in connection with the most recent episodes of hooliganism by football fans in Limassol, while arrest warrants have been issued against two others who are ...

By George Sklavos The smooth transition to the digital age is one of the toughest challenges facing the banking sector in Cyprus. We are living in a time when everything ...

Turkey’s third-place election candidate endorsed President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, boosting the incumbent and intensifying the challenges for opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a Sunday runoff vote. Sinan Ogan, ...

The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said on Tuesday the “counter-terrorism operation” in the region was ongoing, with the defence ministry and law enforcement agencies continuing “to clean up” ...

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy could not reach an agreement Monday on how to raise the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling with just 10 days before ...

Property sales rose by 20 per cent between January and the middle of May, compared to the corresponding period of 2022, according to the head of the Department of Lands and Surveys ...

The course and prospects of the Cypriot economy, as well as issues pertaining to EU funds until 2027, took centre stage during a meeting between Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and European ...

On Tuesday the weather will be partly cloudy with local rains and isolated storms expected, mainly in the northern half of the island. The winds will be mainly south-westerly, weak ...

The turmoil facing US regional banks has prompted some lenders to step back, leaving space for investors such as asset managers, private equity (PE) funds and insurers to lend more. ...

The island’s wines will once again be the focus of attention by international experts at the 14th Cyprus Wine Competition in Limassol this week. Speaking at a press conference ...

The Sunday before last, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced, out of the blue, that natural gas would be sent from Israel’s gas fields by pipeline to Cyprus, ...

Junior doctors in England plan to stage more strikes in June, their union said, meaning more strain for the state-run health service, NHS, after pay negotiations with the government collapsed ...

Kosovo must implement a Western-brokered peace deal with Serbia if it wants to achieve its goal of joining the NATO military alliance, two U.S. senators visiting Pristina said on ...

Top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy said talks over raising the U.S. federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling were “on the right path” ahead of a meeting with Democratic President ...

Russia said on Monday it was battling a cross-border incursion by saboteurs who burst through the frontier from Ukraine, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks of ...

Brazil does not favour vaccination as a way to control bird flu because it would inevitably lead to trade barriers, one of its senior officials said on Monday. The world’...

Last year the ‘cabinet’ in the north granted permits for the purchase of real estate to 2,810 foreign nationals, while during the first three months of 2023 alone about 1,000 such permits were ...