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Never before has the need to comply with the wishes of the planet been so imperative worldwide, Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou said during the annual Earth Hour event on Saturday ...

As the clock runs down to Monday’s sanctions deadline for Russian airlines to hand back more than 400 leased planes worth almost $10 billion, foreign lessors are fast losing hope that ...

Tesla Inc TSLA.O Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday. Musk was ...

The United States, the world’s top natural gas producer, wants to send more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe to help its allies break their dependence on Russian gas ...

Russian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian parliament said in a Twitter post on Saturday. “It is currently impossible to estimate ...

Turkey’s current account deficit is expected to rise to $32 billion or 4.0 per cent of GDP this year, more than the 2.5 per cent previously forecast, Goldman Sachs said, citing rising ...

By Ari Mattes There were some extraordinary films released in 2021: Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, an electric neon romp through the porn world, Ildikó Enyedi’s period epic, The Story of ...

A series of late frosts will cost potato producer Avraam Venizelos dear Sitting at Peristerona’s kafeneio just opposite the church of St Barnabas and Hilarion, I take a quick ...

High prices of fuel, grain, meat and vegetables have become a popular subject for the media. Indignant stories about the the constantly rising price of fuel, the soaring cost of ...

NONE of our courageous politicians has yet broken the vow of silence they took with regard to the unveiled threats issued by Mother Russia’s ambassador Stan Osadchiy 10 days ago. ...

US President Joe Biden, visiting Nato ally Poland on Saturday, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher”. Biden said he was not sure Russia was changing its strategy in Ukraine ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 5,172 had tested positive from 82,488 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 6.27 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

Turkey’s military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had drifted in from the Black Sea, setting off a loud explosion north of Istanbul, days after Russia warned several of ...

Nicosia bus employees on Saturday reached an agreement with their employers after mediation by Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou and Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos. The agreement came after talks that lasted ...

The mayor of Lviv said another rocket had hit the city in western Ukraine on Saturday, not long after two rockets struck its outskirts in what appeared to be the ...

One hundred and eight organisations, political parties, trade unions and NGOs on Saturday demonstrated for the opening of more crossing points under the banner: ‘For peace and a solution open ...

The free testing sites for Sunday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (26 units) Mall of Cyprus (underground parking area) 9 am – 6 pm 99969931 Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 ...

Tunisian police forces have dismantled about 150 militant cells in the past six months, a spokesman for the National Guard said on Saturday. He added that some of the foreign militants ...

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez can remain at the LaLiga side for as long as he wants following his superb start in the job, club president Joan Laporta said, adding that ...

The civil registry and migration department on Saturday responded to being lambasted for ordering the deportation of a third-country student because he was HIV positive, saying they would be issuing ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was “increasingly real”, welcoming a visit by the U.S. ambassador to Hiroshima, the ...

Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic will return to hospital to undergo another round of treatment for leukaemia after scans showed a risk of a relapse, the Serbian said on Saturday. The 53...

Iraq’s parliament failed again on Saturday to vote for a president after Iran-backed groups boycotted the session, in a setback to an alliance led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr which ...

A Paphos police officer was injured in the early hours of Saturday during a traffic stop in Tsada village. According to police, the officer stopped a vehicle driven by a ...