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Norway’s $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, posted a record profit of 1.75 ​trillion Norwegian crowns ($184.3 billion) for the first half of the ​year, lifted by technology stocks, ...

The new parliament that emerged from May’s elections has a demanding legislative agenda ahead of it when the session reopens at the beginning of September, with important bills and ...

Four candidates will be standing in the elections of the leadership of Edek on September 5. The elections were made necessary by the resignation of party leader Nicos Anastasiou, after the ...

Goals from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Desire Doue helped Paris St Germain to retain the UEFA Super Cup with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa on Wednesday. PSG, back-to-back Champions League ...

A threat that Air Force One could be targeted by a shoulder-fired missile prompted the Secret Service to secretly move President Donald Trump onto an unmarked government jet during a ...

Police have issued a warning over a new online loan scam targeting the public through social media advertisements, after a woman lost €10,000 to fraudsters. Police said that the woman followed ...

Venture capitalist Joshua Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger are set to purchase the Los Angeles Lakers, with the deal valued at a record $12.5 billion, according to sources familiar ...

An Israeli airstrike critically wounded a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, in an attack the Israeli military said targeted a Hamas commander planning attacks against Israeli troops operating in ...

About 1,200 people were evacuated from a campsite due to two wildfires near the beach in the north of France, local officials said on Wednesday. The prefecture for the administrative department ...

The Iranian embassy in Cyprus on Wednesday commemorated the missile attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, which killed 168 schoolchildren on February 28. The embassy said the commemoration, symbolically ...

Ukrainian forces have liberated 745 square km (288 square miles) of Russian-occupied land this year across a swathe of the southeastern front, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, hailing an operation he ...

Football egend Lionel Messi doubts his playing career will last “much longer” following the recent death of his father. Jorge Messi passed away on Saturday at the age of 68 after ...

Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there ...

The met department has issued a yellow weather warning for extreme heat as temperatures are expected rise above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday. According to the department, the warning will be ...

Israel and Lebanon have agreed on Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Indonesia as potential contributors to a proposed mechanism that could see foreign troops deployed to Lebanon to verify Hezbollah’s ...

A total of €250,000 will be allocated for the creation of a modern animal shelter in Paphos, which is scheduled to be completed within 18 months, animal welfare commissioner Elias Myrianthous said ...

The two individuals suspected of attempted arson in the Kornos forest earlier this month are scheduled to appear before the Larnaca criminal court in a trial in October, the Larnaca ...

Greek Cypriot author Alex Michaelides’ debut novel The Silent Patient has been ranked among the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century, according to a list published by The New York ...

Inspections carried out by the civil aviation department show no reason for concern regarding the safety of Ryanair flights in Cyprus, the transport ministry said on Wednesday. The statement came ...

Police have arrested a fourth suspect in connection with the arson attack on a betting agency in Limassol on June 1, with a 30-year-old man taken into custody in Nicosia on ...

European financial regulators have proposed ending initial margin requirements for both new and existing uncleared derivatives contracts for counterparties whose average derivatives exposure falls below the €8 billion threshold under the ...

A military ​F-16 aircraft crashed ‌on Wednesday during a ​training ​flight in the northwestern ⁠Turkish ​province of Yalova, ​Turkey’s defence ministry said, adding ​that the ​pilot had ejected ‌and ⁠...

The new Cyprus branch of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) has recorded a surge in application numbers, with the acceptance rate for its medical school standing at 20 ...

The president of the Cyprus Bar Association, Michalis Vorkas, has urged caution over the investigation into journalist Makarios Drousiotis’ crowdfunding campaign for his legal expenses, stressing that the presumption of ...