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Russia launched referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, drawing condemnation from Kyiv and Western nations who dismissed the votes as a sham and pledged not ...

A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, killing two and leaving tens of thousands of households without power, the Kyodo news agency reported. Shizuoka ...

There’s an election in Italy on Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power. Giorgia Meloni, the ...

PwC Cyprus on Friday announced during its annual general meeting that it generated record revenues of €83 million during the 2022 fiscal year, meaning the period between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022. The company ...

Kyndryl Cyprus, the local subsidiary of the leading international IT infrastructure services provider, this week announced that it hosted a number of students at its Nicosia offices, giving them the ...

Cypriot beverage company Keo this week announced that it generated €1.6 million in profits during the first half of 2022, up from €1.1 million during the corresponding period of 2021. According to the company’...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Ukraine was not the only country in post-war Europe to have been attacked, as he addressed the 77th UN General Assembly in New York ...

Limassol port management company DP World Limassol on Friday announced launched for another year a three-month internship programme for students pursuing a degree in shipping or related field, noting that ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Friday spoke of an alarming migratory flow increase to Europe outlining the main talking points of this year’s Med5 summit, which will gather the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades’ last address to the UN General Assembly was in effect an address to Greek Cypriot public, in which he crudely avoided taking the smallest bit of responsibility ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Italy’s election on September 25th is likely to result in a right-wing coalition government made up of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s ...

Electronic music fans on the island can ditch their cars and use the extended bus service which will be operating during the Electronic Music Festival in Larnaca from September 23 to 25 ...

Italy’s leaders held their final rallies on Friday ahead of a parliamentary election at the weekend that is expected to be won by a rightist alliance, putting Rome on ...

British government bond yields surged by the most in a day in over three decades on Friday, the pound slid to a fresh 37-year trough against the dollar and stocks ...

Ukraine said on Friday it had downed four Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones used by Russia’s armed forces, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to complain that Tehran was harming Ukrainian citizens. Military ...

United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres on Friday agreed to send a deputy to Cyprus on a fact-finding mission to help with ongoing efforts to jump-start stagnant talks for a ...

Paphos criminal court on Friday sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for sexual abuse offences. According to a statement, the court imposed concurrent sentences of up to 13 years imprisonment ...

Firefighters were set to remain overnight near the village of Alassa in Limassol on Friday night after bringing a huge fire under control that had threatened a recycling plant and ...

Hurricane Fiona drenched Bermuda with heavy rain and buffeted the Atlantic island with hurricane-force winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward Nova Scotia, where it threatens to become one ...

If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World Health Organization official told Reuters. In an interview, WHO senior ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was “pushed” into invading Ukraine and wanted to put “decent people” in charge of Kyiv, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has said, drawing fierce criticism just ...

Low-income Britons will see few benefits from the historic tax cuts announced by the country’s new finance minister on Friday, union leaders and anti-poverty campaigners said, warning that the ...

By George Pirishis More than one in two people employed in Cyprus say they have experienced bullying in the workplace, according to a new survey that Sek union, which commissioned ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s call for a two-state solution was a “positive development” but said the proof would be an immediate return to ...