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The 2,000 Israeli babies born in Cyprus after the World War II created an umbilical link between the two countries, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Thursday. The minister was speaking ...

House arrest with an ankle monitor should not count as detention time, the Limassol criminal court said on Thursday in relation to a drugs case. According to a press release ...

Hundreds of hardline Serb nationalists and pro-Russia activists rallied in downtown Belgrade, threatening riots if Serbia accepts a Western-backed plan aimed at mending ties with Kosovo, its former mainly Albanian ...

Former customers of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX have sued three venture capital and private equity firms, accusing them in a proposed class action of fraudulently promoting the cryptocurrency exchange before ...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides and Green Party head Charalambos Theopemptou agreed to maintain a constructive dialogue during a meeting on Thursday. In a press release published after the meeting, Christodoulides said ...

By Rosie Nelson Non-binary singer Sam Smith has caused waves with the release of their music video for I’m Not Here to Make Friends, a triumphantly queer declaration of ...

The new developments in PDO specifications will widen prospects for the development of halloumi, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce (Keve) said on Thursday. In a written statement, Keve expressed satisfaction ...

Greece and Bulgaria will consider reviving a pipeline project to transport crude oil from the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean Sea to Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of ...

A total of 52,164 people in Paphos will be eligible to vote of the next bishop of the metropolis on Sunday, an announcement from church elections officer Ioannis Charilaou said on ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday received the credentials of the new ambassadors of the Russian Federation and Japan. The new ambassadors are the Russian Murat Zyazikov and Japanese Yamawaki Yoshio. ...

A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday more than 10 days after a devastating earthquake hit the region, but such rescues have become increasingly rare, ...

Russia rained missiles across Ukraine on Thursday and struck its largest oil refinery, Kyiv said, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicted the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would ...

Activist investors are renewing their years-long efforts to break up some of Germany’s most venerable companies, seeing streamlining as a promising route to reviving share prices as Europe’s ...

With Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) doing so well during phase 7 of the presale, and Fantom (FTM) and Cosmos (ATOM) both recently partnering with large enterprises, now could be the perfect time ...

Disy MP Demetris Demetriou announced on Thursday he was running for the party’s leadership position, resigning as party spokesman. He stressed he would take up the issue of people ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested on Thursday morning in connection with the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl in Famagusta earlier this week. The case was reported to the police ...

A 47-year-old man was jailed for three months on Thursday, after he was found guilty of drink driving. Larnaca district court also imposed on the man five penalty points and ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal to reduce the 17-year sentence handed down by the criminal court to a 23-year-old convicted of the murder of a 19-year-old Syrian ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Thursday said his time in politics has come to a close after 10 years, and he would not be vying for Disy’s leadership position. “I’...

Hollywood legend Raquel Welch, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82, had a well-publicised but brief encounter with Cyprus’ rural life. In 1970, she stayed for several weeks on ...

The UK is working on a new arrangement with Greece through which the Parthenon Sculptures could be seen both in London and in Athens, British Museum chair George Osborne said ...

Melco Resorts & Entertainment has been awarded a collective total of 97 Stars by the ‘2023 Forbes Travel Guide’ (FTG), maintaining its lead among Macau and Asia’s integrated resorts. FTG honoured ...

High gas prices and persistent inflation eroding real wages will limit growth in emerging Europe, central Asia and north Africa, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in ...

The founder of WallStreetBets, which has been credited with helping ignite investors’ frenzy into “meme” stocks, sued Reddit Inc on Wednesday, accusing it of wrongly banning him from moderating the ...