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The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of China’s popular social media app TikTok in the ...

Deposits in the Cypriot banking system experienced an increase of approximately €590 million in December 2022, with their total balance exceeding €52 billion, according to a report published on Friday by the Central ...

Tyre Nichols repeatedly cried, “Mom! Mom!” as the five black Memphis police officers now charged with the black motorist’s murder pummeled him with kicks, punches and baton blows after ...

By Maria Demertzis The global fight against climate change suffers from a problem that holds back international action in many areas: countries make promises and set goals, but then fail ...

An industry body set out a global framework on Thursday for trading derivatives linked to cryptoassets to avoid FTX-style collapses sowing confusion over ownership. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (...

A somewhat fractious exchange between the minister of energy and the electricity transmission operators took place on Friday, following publication of a letter sent by the latter to the ministry. ...

Disy candidate, Averof Neophytou, on Friday, came up with the rather bizarre idea, calling on his fellow candidates for “an open dialogue with citizens.” He described this as “a debate ...

Support for party-backed independent Nikos Christodoulides has slipped in the past month while the other two main candidates, Disy’s Averof Neophytou and Akel-backed Andreas Mavroyiannis have gained, according to ...

A gunman killed at least seven people and wounded 10 others in a synagogue on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday in an attack that heightened fears of a spiral in ...

A man was crushed to death in central London on Friday while attempting to repair a telescopic urinal, one of a number of facilities which rise out of the ground ...

Flags are lowered, sorrowful statements are issued, pleas to lawmakers are made, again. In the wake of two mass shootings in California this week, President Joe Biden has followed a ...

The Ukrainian foreign ministry will summon Hungary’s ambassador to complain about “completely unacceptable” remarks Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made about Ukraine, Kyiv said on Friday. The announcement marks ...

Larnaca is taking on the image of a modern European municipality thanks to a series of projects that have made it more humane, functional, and attractive, President Nicos Anastasiades said ...

The United States is deeply concerned about recent violence in Israel and the West Bank and believes there is an urgent need for all parties to de-escalate in the region, ...

The Cyprus Association of Research and Innovation Enterprises (CARIE) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hellenic Aerospace Security & Defense Industries Group (HASDIG) aimed at consolidating the ...

Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Friday it had blocked the websites of the CIA and FBI, accusing the two US government agencies of spreading false information, the TASS ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday accused social media platforms and those who advertise on them of being “complicit” in accelerating extremism like antisemitism, racism, anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia and ...

The White House and European Commission will announce on Friday an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting ...

As the exhibition Idols continues at The O Gallery in Larnaca, on the occasion of Andreas Karayan’s 80th birthday a performance art event will take place this week. Running ...

Increasing pharmaceutical exports can boost the economy, presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Prospects for providing specialised services to European multinational pharmaceutical companies also exist, Christodoulides said, highlighting the ...

Paphos fire fighters rescued a 13-year-old boy from a pit he fell into shortly before 4pm on Friday. The boy fell into the three-metre-deep pit at a construction site in ...

The 21-year-old murder suspect in the north was remanded for a further seven days, reports said on Friday. Sefer Bugra Altundag is being investigated for the murder of 16-year-old Zehie ...

Over 50,000 Holocaust survivors were hosted in Cyprus from 1946 to 1949 the foreign ministry said on Friday on Holocaust Remembrance Day. These survivors stayed in Cyprus in camps, ahead of moving to ...

Turkey has summoned Denmark’s ambassador to Ankara over a planned protest in the Danish capital on Friday that is expected to include the burning of a copy of the ...