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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said one of his senior commanders was alive and well, dismissing reports that he had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. The commander, Adam Delimkhanov, heads ...

Limassol police on Wednesday took into custody another suspect for an investigated case of importation of 100g of cannabis resin, for which a 34-year-old was already issued a seven-day detention ...

Police in Nicosia on Thursday are investigating a bomb explosion at the offices of an insurance company on Athalassa Avenue. According to initial reports the bomb went off at 4.15 am, ...

The Cyprus Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) this week issued a statement welcoming President Christodoulides’ call to banks to follow proper loan restructuring procedures. The president’s comments ...

On Thursday the weather will initially be clear with increased clouds in the afternoon expected to bring isolated rains, mainly in the mountains. Winds will be south-westerly to north-westerly light ...

Shell (SHEL.L) will ramp up its dividend and share buybacks while keeping oil output steady into 2030, it said on Wednesday, as CEO Wael Sawan moved to regain investor confidence ...

British supermarket group Waitrose said this week it had reduced the price of more than 200 products as part of a 100 million pound ($126 million) plan announced earlier this year in the ...

Israel exported a record $12.556 billion in defence products last year, with new Arab partners under the U.S.-sponsored 2020 Abraham Accords accounting for almost a quarter of the business, the ...

Paphos district lifeguards have announced a two-hour work stoppage in protest of under staffing and other longstanding issues. In an official statement the lifeguards said they took the decision last ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides on Tuesday urged the authorities to take action against hate speech directed at the LGBTIQ+ community. She was responding to screenshots of such posts in the ...

The Czech centre-right cabinet on Wednesday approved seeking a 137 billion crown ($6.25 billion) loan from the European Union’s post-COVID recovery funds, part of efforts to boost its energy transformation while ...

Abortion rights supporters marched through several cities in Poland on Wednesday after the death of a pregnant woman whose family believe she could have survived if she had been offered ...

The powerful Hezbollah group and its allies thwarted a bid by their rivals to elect a top IMF official as Lebanon’s president on Wednesday, sharpening sectarian tensions and further ...

China is willing to play a positive role to help the Palestinians achieve internal reconciliation and promote peace talks with Israel, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Palestinian counterpart in ...

Over two dozen kg of beef were confiscated at the Ayios Dometios crossing point by authorities in the north, and an individual was arrested, reports said on Wednesday. According to ...

The Green Party on Wednesday raised the alarm over a large volume of sewage ending up at the Larnaca Salt Lake near the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque. “The sewage has ...

Witnesses have reported bomb attacks and being threatened when called to testify on match fixing allegations, the former member of the sports ethics committee Charis Savvides told the House institutions ...

Yeroskipou municipality was on Wednesday fully geared to appeal a town planning decision greenlighting the construction of a hotel by the archbishopric, in an area brimming with antiquities. The municipality ...

Discussions on the use of police body cams and in cars continued at the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday, with the deputy head of the committee saying they are ...

After a spectacular chamber music festival, the Pharos Arts Foundation returns to its open-air venue The Olive Grove in Delikipos again this summer, to host a concert with the internationally ...

Sweden should not expect a green light from Ankara on its NATO membership bid at the Western alliance’s summit next month unless it prevents anti-Turkey protests in Stockholm, Turkish ...

Italy bade farewell to four-times prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday at a funeral befitting the business tycoon’s colourful life, with mourners bellowing football chants and politicians arguing over ...

The new $325 million U.S. military aid package for Ukraine pushes Washington deeper into the “abyss” of the conflict, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said early ...

Spyware has been abused in certain EU member states, posing a threat to democracy and the rule of law, Jeroen Lenaers, president of the Pega committee, said on Wednesday. Speaking ...