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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that speed restrictions remained in place on the US Starshield satellite communications system, hampering the Ukrainian military’s ability to operate inside the country. ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration overstepped its authority in April when it withheld $73.5 million in highway funding from New York over the state’s ...

The UN’s human rights chief on Friday demanded the return of the body of a Yemeni staff member of his office who died of unknown causes weeks ago after ...

A woman was taken to hospital on Friday evening after her car overturned at a junction and ended up in the garden of a nearby house in Mesogi avenue, in ...

Greece has sent a clear message to Ankara that it will not tolerate interventions in its electricity interconnection with Cyprus. On Friday, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said from Kurdistan ...

Pope Leo held the central event of his 12-day South America tour on Friday, an outdoor Mass in northern Peru where he told a vast crowd of people who once ...

Ongoing investigations into fuel prices “to make sure there are no cartels” were scrutinised on Friday by the House finance committee, which discussed the €2.75 million budget proposed for the Commission ...

Witness testimony on Friday confirmed previous statements that Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life in 2019 at the age of 14, had been beaten with a belt by his father. Speech ...

British police said on Friday they had opened an investigation into allegations against British comedian and best-selling children’s author David Walliams after two media organisations published accusations of sexual ...

Students staged demonstrations in Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos on Friday to protest the anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence in the occupied north. The rallies took place two days ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he is hoping for “more positive developments” to be achieved at his tripartite meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader ...

Ahead of the 13th Cyprus Jazz & World Music Showcase that is set to take place on December 4-6 at the Rialto Theatre, the department of contemporary culture and the ...

A 38-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for importing opioids. The Paphos district court found the man guilty of importing 500g of dried poppy pods, ...

A car was torched on Thursday night in Larnaca, while parked in an empty plot next to the 61-year-old owner’s residence, the police said on Friday. According to the ...

The mayor of Dromolaxia-Meneou, Kypros Andronikou, appeared in court on Friday, accused of having presented his own personal views as those of the municipality as a whole. The complaint had ...

Spending on armaments is set to more than double next year to €430 million, largely through the EU’s Safe defence financing programme. Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas told the House finance ...

A 62-year-old electrician was found dead at a building under construction in Avdellero on Friday afternoon. Police identified the man as Gavriel Gavriel and said he was found at around 1.25...

Manchester United turned on Friday to Mauricio Pochettino to haul them out of the Premier League relegation zone, entrusting one of football’s most storied clubs to a manager with ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday refused to rule out the prospect of “malevolent actors” using artificial intelligence-based disinformation campaigns to sway voters at the next Cypriot presidential elections, which will ...

A 60-year-old Turkish Cypriot man who went missing while picking mushrooms in the Cedar Valley area of Paphos on Thursday was found safe on Friday afternoon. Police said the man ...

The World Masters Sambo Championships, scheduled to take place in Limassol next week, could be cancelled or relocated amid a dispute over the use of Russian and Belarusian flags and ...

MPs from all parties on the House finance committee agreed on Friday that a new building for parliament is “urgently needed”, saying the current premises are outdated. The House’s ...

The Forestry Department has urged mushroom pickers, hunters and other forest visitors to exercise caution during their outings and take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and those around them. ...

A 27-year-old Thai national was remanded for eight days on Friday following his arrest at Larnaca airport in connection with the seizure of 22.5kg of cannabis. The man was arrested ...