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The Chinese capital of Beijing closed some public spaces and stepped up checks at others on Thursday, as most of the city’s 22 million residents embarked on more COVID-19 mass ...

In today’s episode, the one-year jail sentence imposed on Turkish Cypriot newspaper publisher Sener Levent by a court in Turkey for offending Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been commuted ...

With inflation running at its highest levels in four decades, Utah business owner Steve Allred is concerned about the declining purchasing power of the US dollar. To help protect against ...

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned China that failure to play by global rules would cut short its rise as a superpower, and said the West should ensure that Taiwan ...

The Cyprus Institute of Certified Management Consultants (Sesek) on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM). The partnership entails Sesek ...

Djeneba Belem’s fried bean cake stall in Abidjan is a world away from the war raging in Ukraine. But her business is now at the mercy of an unexpected ...

Several companies plan to open production facilities for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries or components in North America and Europe by 2025, as the alternative to nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cells begins to ...

A number of Turkish Cypriots being deported from Turkey has caused alarm in the north, as political parties sought further clarification, while the ‘foreign ministry’ played it down. It was ...

Easter Sunday was also the 18th anniversary of the 2004 referendum on the failed Annan plan, which normally passes without much ado except for some blah from the hard-line parties about ...

An own goal and a Sadio Mane strike earned Liverpool a 2-0 victory in their Champions League semi-final first-leg against Villarreal on Wednesday, putting Juergen Klopp’s side on course ...

Russia’s Gazprom cut Poland and Bulgaria off from its gas on Wednesday for refusing to pay in roubles, and threatened to do the same to others, cranking up retaliation ...

An updated memorandum of understanding will be signed between Cyprus and Estonia on matters of digital governance and cybersecurity during President Nicos Anastasiades’ two-day visit. The efforts to bolster Cyprus’ ...

Roger Federer looks to have allayed retirement fears as he plots a return to the ATP Tour in the autumn, starting at the Laver Cup in London followed by the ...

An 11-year-old has been transferred to a private Paphos hospital as he lost a finger in a firecracker explosion late on Wednesday evening. The minor also suffered serious injuries to ...

A bicommunal protest against the Akkuyu nuclear plant in Turkey was held in the buffer zone on Wednesday. Protesters gathered in Nicosia between the two checkpoints at the Home for ...

Russian government hackers carried out multiple cyber operations against Ukraine that appeared to support Moscow’s military attacks and online propaganda campaigns, Microsoft said in a report on Wednesday. The ...

Drug squad officers on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old and 76-year-old after a bust uncovered 1.5kg of cannabis and 24 marijuana plants. Members of the unit carried out a vehicle spot check ...

Belarus moved on Wednesday to make attempted acts of terrorism punishable by the death penalty after activists tried to sabotage parts of the railway network to make it harder for ...

President of the House Annita Demetriou on Wednesday stressed that the international community must not show selective tolerance on matters of principle, neither should it apply the logic of double ...

Interim manager Ralf Rangnick knows Champions League qualification is unrealistic as Manchester United prepare to take on Chelsea without a swathe of key players. Harry Maguire and Jadon Sancho have ...

Fuego by Eleni Foureira is the tenth most listened to Eurovision entry of all time, a new survey revealed on Wednesday, a few days before the 66th Eurovision contest. The ...

Goodbye Easter holidays, hello weekend! Continuing the high spirits and celebratory mood there are several events in Nicosia this weekend. Some of them are returning events, others are popular markets ...

President Joe Biden called former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright a “force of nature” on Wednesday at a memorial service attended by former presidents in honour of the first woman ...

Rangers boss Giovanni Van Bronckhorst has told his players to block all the outside pressures in their bid to reach the Europa League final. The Light Blues take on RB ...