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Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move that follows other Western countries who have barred the Chinese-owned video app over security ...

The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points on Thursday as promised, ignoring financial market chaos and calls by investors to dial back policy tightening at least until ...

A total of 14 people have died from the flu in Cyprus in this winter, authorities said on Thursday releasing figures. Among the deaths was an 8-year-old girl with no other ...

By Lucy Atkinson From the fairy tales read to us as children to the costumes every Halloween, the figure of the witch has been with most of us for our ...

Gianni Infantino was re-elected as FIFA president during the 73rd Congress in Kigali on Thursday, promising record revenues in the next four-year cycle of $11 billion as he called for more ...

Oil prices clawed back some ground on Thursday after sliding to 15-month lows in the previous session as markets calmed somewhat after Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) was thrown a financial ...

Jerusalem woke on Thursday to the sight of a long red line painted by protesters along roads leading to Israel’s Supreme Court, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected ...

The Fire Service on Thursday carried out an emergency exercise at the Larnaca airport aviation fuelling system (LAFS) headquarters, during which firefighters had to respond to a simulated fuel leak ...

The Pentagon released on Thursday a de-classified video showing a Russian military jet intercept a U.S. drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago, rare footage that highlights ...

An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed a policeman but cleared two other officers of negligence over crowd control measures deployed at a local soccer match that led to one of ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 27-year-old man caught stealing metal pipes from his company, after the company car’s GPS gave away his location, authorities said on Thursday. According to ...

Turkish main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu is visiting the north on Thursday to meet the Turkish Cypriot families, who lost loved ones in the earthquakes last month. Kilicdaroglu, who is ...

The Ministry of Finance announced on Thursday that 1,318 applications have been submitted, potentially qualifying for loans totalling €131.1 million under the Oikia housing scheme. This scheme was designed to help manage ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Finance Minister Makis Keravnos are in constant contact with the governor of the Cyprus Central Bank as of Thursday, following a 30 per cent slump in shares ...

Members of the prison guards’ union Isotita sent a letter to Justice Minister Anna Procopiou urging her to take measures against the issue of overcrowding in the Nicosia central prison. “...

A 57-year-old man, identified as Stavros Joakim, died early on Thursday morning in a labour accident at a glass manufacturing plant in the Aradippou industrial zone. Charis Hadjiyiasemi, Larnaca police ...

A massive 60-person police operation in Chlorakas on Thursday morning targeted a well-known crime hotspot which found that seven apartments were stealing electricity. Michalis Nikolaou, Paphos police spokesman and head ...

The euro and Swiss franc regained some lost ground on Thursday, as markets reacted positively to the Swiss central bank’s support for Credit Suisse, ahead of a difficult meeting ...

ptimism (OP) and Litecoin (LTC) are two extremely popular crypto investments. Over the past week, Litecoin (LTC) daily trading volume has regularly passed $1 billion in trading volume, and Optimism (OP) ...

No signs of strangulation were found on the body of a 28-year-old woman, private medical examiner Marios Matsakis said on Thursday, after conducting a second post-mortem on her body, at ...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party vowed on Thursday to reverse the government’s planned pension changes, saying they were a giveaway to the top 1% of pension savers at a time ...

Of all the cuisine I’ve had the privilege to try, that of Georgia is one of the most intriguing. Somewhere between Middle Eastern and Eastern European, the Caucasian country’...

Officials from the British base in Akrotiri on Wednesday flew a Puma HC2 military helicopter over the sea during a life-saving emergency response exercise. Two new additions to the single ...

A 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attacking a police officer outside the Ayios Ioannis police station in Limassol, authorities reported on Thursday. According to police, on Wednesday at ...