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Senior Western officials directly accused their Russian counterparts of war crimes on Friday after Russian missiles struck a Ukrainian city far behind the frontlines in an attack Kyiv officials said ...

Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) fight with Elon Musk to enforce his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform could attract scrutiny from the US securities regulator over whether ...

The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) this week announced that it has provided funding to start-ups and other innovative businesses worth a total of €8.5 million. The foundation said that it ...

As increasing numbers of patients report long Covid symptoms, a Larnaca healthcare centre is offering treatment for the condition, attracting foreign visitors to the island to receive expensive and unproven ...

It took a year and the danger of losing EU funding worth €85 million for the legislature to finally approve the two bills establishing a framework for the operation of companies ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) has offered to halt online selling and marketing practices EU antitrust regulators regard as anti-competitive to try to end two investigations and avoid a possible hefty fine, ...

By George Pirishis With the cost of energy and electricity increasing dramatically, there are many households trying to take advantage of the subsidisation programmes by the Ministry of Energy, Trade ...

Wildfires raged across tinder-dry country in Portugal, Spain, France and Croatia on Thursday, burning homes and threatening livelihoods, as much of Europe baked in a heatwave that has pushed temperatures ...

Parliament on Thursday voted through a legislative proposal that empowers the government to order a price cap on petroleum products, and also passed bills cutting to zero the VAT charged ...

Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia far behind the frontlines on Thursday in an attack which Ukrainian officials called a war crime and said had killed at least 23 ...

Disregarding warnings from the government and financial authorities, the House plenum on Thursday extended a freeze on property foreclosures to the end of October. The bill – amending the laws governing ...

Ukraine is using Western-supplied long-range weapons and 155mm “smart” shells to hit Russian ammo dumps and supply lines, forcing Moscow to rethink how it supplies fuel and ammunition to the ...

The Italian head of state on Thursday rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi and asked him to address parliament to get a clear picture of the political situation, ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation seen as the backbone of reforming the justice and judicial system – a development welcomed by the attorney-general and the justice minister. The ...

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak cemented his lead over rivals to become Britain’s next prime minister on Thursday in an increasingly bitter race to replace Boris Johnson. Sunak, whose ...

Greece on Thursday scored a win in its fight to protect their right to the term ‘Feta’ as Europe’s top court reprimanded Denmark for not blocking local companies from ...

The United States and more than 40 other countries agreed on Thursday to coordinate investigations into suspected war crimes in Ukraine, shortly after what Kyiv said was a Russian missile strike ...

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, a spokesperson for the parliament speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic ...

A number of groups and public figures on Thursday slammed the cabinet’s appointment of the head of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) to the board of directors of the ...

It’s live music season and the island’s bars are busy hosting musicians from Cyprus and abroad for nights of entertainment. Vinylio Wine Etc, a wine bar in old ...

The interior ministry will launch a lifeguard workshop as a means of covering staffing needs, it announced on Thursday. This comes after efforts failed to find and hire lifeguards to ...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s coalition government risked collapse on Thursday after the 5-Star Movement, one of its members, failed to support a parliamentary confidence vote including measures to ...

Twitter (TWTR.N) was coming back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website. The outage affected nearly 2,000 ...

Eighty six per cent of the adult population in Cyprus had been fully vaccinated against Covid by July 11, the health ministry announced on Thursday, while 87.5 per cent of the adult ...