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Before Russia launched its assault on Ukraine, Andriy Senkiv was a pacifist who blogged about sport and had never held a gun in his life. Eleven days later, the 27-year-old ...

An explosion targeted a restaurant in the heart of Nicosia early on Sunday, police said. The restaurant was not named but reports said it was a well-known establishment on Makarios ...

Six businesses and 19 individuals were booked in the past 24 hours for Covid violations, police said after carrying out 2,236 checks islandwide. Some 54o checks were carried out in Nicosia with three ...

Hong Kong reported 31,008 new COVID-19 cases and 153 deaths on Sunday as the city’s chief secretary said residents should not worry about a looming mass testing scheme, with details to ...

A few weeks ago, the mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, was working on a plan to revitalise the Ukrainian port city, appearing at public meetings in shirt and tie to ...

An attempt to evacuate residents from the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol collapsed for a second day on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said, blaming ...

The conflict in Ukraine is set to last months, if not years, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday, adding international allies would need to show “strategic ...

Remembering the past, looking to the future By Matt Fitzpatrick Both sides in this war have plundered history. Vladimir Putin claims to be replaying the second world war by “denazifying” ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides is travelling to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of his counterpart, the ministry announced. According to the announcement, Petrides will hold bilateral meetings with Saudi officials ...

More than 11,000 Russian troops have been killed since Moscow launched an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, the Ukrainian armed forces’ general staff said on Sunday. A day earlier, it put ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed “several” attacks on health care centres in Ukraine and is investigating others, the agency’s chief said on Sunday. The attacks caused multiple deaths ...

A low pressure weather system continues to affect the area causing some dust in the atmosphere, the met office said on Sunday. The depth of snow in Troodos Square, at ...

Global banks face an arduous and costly process if they decide to close businesses in Russia, banking sources and experts say, complicating decisions over whether they should withdraw. Sanctions placed ...

Cryptocurrencies have been close to the headlines since Russia invaded Ukraine, with the ever-volatile bitcoin in demand in Russia and beyond. Here are some charts that look at how cryptocurrencies ...

Sydney, Australia‘s most populous city that has been drenched in rain for days, braced for more heavy downpours on Sunday as the death toll from flooding across the country’...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of new Western sanctions against Russia have fuelled fears about supplies of key commodities produced and exported by Russian companies. See for ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) received a conditional go-ahead for its German gigafactory near Berlin on Friday, the state of Brandenburg said, ending months of delay for the 5 billion euro ($5.5 billion) ...

A FEW days was all that was needed for Moscow to lose the tight hold it had over Kyproulla for six decades, as the natives, seeing what was happening in ...

More than a thousand large trucks, recreational vehicles and cars gathered on the outskirts of Washington as part of a protest against COVID-19 restrictions that threatens to roll on the ...

Russia and Ukraine will hold a third round of talks on Monday about ending hostilities, Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia said in a Facebook post on Saturday, without providing further details. ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,834 had tested positive from 91,348 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.01 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

Israel will continue trying to mediate between Russia and Ukraine even if success seems unlikely, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday after returning from surprise talks with Russian President ...

The price of most Green Monday staples is higher than last year, although a handful of items buck the trend, according to the latest price observatory published by the consumer ...

A Russian flight was en route to Washington on Saturday to collect Russian diplomats who were expelled this week from their posts at the United Nations over U.S. national ...