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The Akamas development plan is gearing up to take centre stage amid allegations of backroom deals, electioneering and illegal procedures, while no one can agree anything: not even when the ...

The opening of the competitive electricity market has turned into an ongoing joke. The first deadline missed was in July 2014 and it was followed by one in July 2016, July 2019 and ...

The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Thursday that his group could stop Israel from extracting gas from a maritime field that Beirut says lies in disputed waters, adding ...

Parliament on Thursday approved legislation that allows Greek Cypriots leasing Turkish Cypriot properties in the south to use them for commercial purposes. The bill had been tabled by Diko MP ...

One of two breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions backed by Moscow on Thursday said it would soon start rail shipments to Russia of grain that its troops had “liberated”, Tass news ...

By unanimous vote, the House on Thursday passed legislation aiming to fast-track the return of at least part of the moneys that legacy Laiki’s depositors lost when the bank ...

A number of items produced in the north have been added to the Green Line Regulation, reports said on Thursday. Citing Turkish Cypriot media, the Press and Information Office said ...

Authorities had yet to establish a motive on Thursday for a 29-year-old German-Armenian man who rammed his car into a group of schoolchildren in Berlin, killing a teacher and leaving ...

In a dramatic move on Thursday, Paralimni mayor Theodoros Pyrillis gave the auditor-general a power-of-attorney to access his personal financial information, adding that he’d drive himself to jail if ...

Iran expects an oil cargo confiscated by the United States off the coast of Greece to be returned in full, Tehran’s ambassador to Athens said on Thursday, following a ...

In between the series of dance acts that are part of an ongoing annual festival at Rialto Theatre, a double show on June 19 titled Sakra will be presented by choreographer ...

The speaker of Ireland’s parliament Seán Ó Fearghaíl said Thursday his country supports a Cyprus settlement that is based on the principles as expounded by the United Nations. ...

The FBI arrested Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on Thursday over misdemeanor charges stemming from his role in the Jan. 6. 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by throngs of ...

Iran on Thursday dealt a near-fatal blow to chances of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as it began removing essentially all the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring equipment installed under ...

Russia warned the West on Thursday that cyber attacks against its infrastructure risked leading to direct military confrontation, and that attempts to challenge Moscow in the cyber sphere would be ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Britons on Thursday he was “on your side”, vowing to build a high-growth, low-tax economy where everyone could buy their own home, in his latest ...

The official in charge of policing at last month’s Champions League final has conceded the operation was a “failure” and appeared to back-track on previous claims that the majority ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that no Iron Curtain would fall over the Russian economy despite the sanctions imposed by the West because Moscow would not close itself off ...

Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to death on Thursday by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one ...

Ukrainian forces were holding their positions in intense street fighting in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, where Russians were “dying like flies”, the region’s governor said on Thursday, but ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Greece should stop arming islands in the Aegean Sea that have a demilitarised status and abide by international agreements, in comments likely to ...

The European Central Bank ended a long-running stimulus scheme on Thursday and signalled a series of rate hikes that may be scaled up from September if the inflation outlook fails ...

USPresident Joe Biden blamed the lack of any progress on gun safety on intimidation by the gun lobby, and he called on voters to make it a deciding issue come ...

Paphos authorities were alarmed on Thursday after spotting two cartridges sown inside the lining of a woman’s bag who was visiting Paphos district court. According to Paphos CID chief ...