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Violent storms buffeting western Germany on Friday killed at least one man and injured some 40 people, 10 of them seriously, when an apparent tornado raked several towns, police and local media ...

Emmanuel Macron retained his finance and interior ministers while appointing only the second woman to head France’s foreign ministry, as the president reshuffled his cabinet ahead of parliamentary elections ...

Germany and Italy told companies they could open rouble accounts to keep buying Russian gas without breaching sanctions against Moscow following discussions with the European Union, sources said. The debate ...

The brand new Palodia primary school has been deemed unsafe for pupils, while class overcrowding was flagged at Parekklisia primary by lawmakers from the House education committee during a visit ...

Russia’s defence ministry on Friday said the last group of Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol’s smashed Azovstal steel works had surrendered, marking an end to a weeks-long ...

Britain reduced its COVID-19 alert level from four to three on Friday, saying the Omicron-variant wave of the virus was subsiding and healthcare pressures continued to decrease in all nations. “...

Lebanon’s government foresees cancelling “a large part” of the central bank’s foreign currency obligations to commercial banks and dissolving non-viable banks by November, according to a financial recovery ...

The “foreign ministry” in the north claimed short staffing for problems with the operation of the Dherynia check-point crossing. According to a report by the Press and Information Office (PIO), ...

The Ukraine crisis grabbed the spotlight in Cannes on Friday as a semi-naked protester painted in blue and yellow was ejected from the red carpet. The unidentified woman ripped off ...

Turkey’s approach to the Nato accession process of Sweden and Finland is not a bilateral issue between Washington and Ankara, State Department spokesperson said on Friday, adding that the ...

In the last twenty-four hours, 26 new cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in the north of the island. The new cases were identified as part of 7,930 tests carried out, according ...

A patient with monkeypox was confirmed in the Netherlands for the first time, the government’s health agency said on Friday, adding more people may have become infected with the ...

A dead sperm whale washed up on the Tel Aviv shore on Friday (May 20), its decomposing, 30-foot (10metre)-long carcass startling some beachgoers while others flocked for a rare close ...

Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft said on Friday that former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and German businessman Matthias Warnig were stepping down from its board of directors. The European ...

McDonald’s franchisees in Russia will have the option of working under a new brand that will launch imminently, the TASS news agency quoted Oleg Paroev, McDonald’s Russia’s ...

Russia’s Gazprom has informed Finland it will halt flows of natural gas from Saturday morning, Gasum said on Friday, after the Finnish state-owned gas wholesaler refused to pay its ...

The magnitude of the impact on the Cyprus economy from the war in Ukraine will depend on the duration of hostilities, and sanctions against Russia, Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) ...

Japanese police on Friday arrested a senior finance ministry official involved in coordinating policies with the central bank for possible assault charges, public broadcaster NHK reported. Heihachiro Ono, 56, deputy vice ...

Exploring the visible and invisible landscapes that make up the world is what a new group exhibition in Limassol will showcase. Opening on May 27 at the Limassol Municipal Centre- Apothikes ...

President of the House Annita Demetriou stressed the significance of Cypriot-Jordanian relations in tackling common challenges during the official visit of the Jordanian deputy prime minister and minister of foreign ...

A fire broke out on Friday afternoon near the State Fair between Engomi and Anthoupolis. According to fire department spokesman, Andreas Kettis, the fire broke out on dry grass and ...

A major holistic overhaul of the island’s judiciary must be completed immediately in light of the data presented in the 2022 EU Justice Scoreboard, which placed Cyprus last in Europe ...

The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Friday denied that a suspect currently on remand by the courts for allegedly offering families army exemptions for their sons for a hefty fee, was ...