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The police leadership has sought to allay fears coming from the union Isotita that officers lives were being put in danger when they are required to accompany migrants back to ...

The protesters in Israel came out every week for seven months to fight what they saw as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assault on democracy, but they lost. On Monday ...

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early on Sunday that had tried tostrike Moscow in the second such attack in a week, which damaged ...

Agrivoltaics seem to offer the perfect solution to the problem of appropriating farmland for solar parks, but are they a nonstarter in Cyprus? As with everything energy-related, things are not ...

At least six people were killed in two days of clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where the mainstream faction Fatah fought against rival groups that support Islamists, ...

Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen roared to a crushing eighth win in a row, one short of the all-time record, in a Red Bull one-two with Sergio Perez at ...

At least 40 people were killed and over 130 injured when an explosion tore through a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said. The police said ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called on Russia to reverse its decision to abandon the Black Sea grain deal, under which it had allowed Ukraine to export grain from its seaports ...

A new yellow alert was issued by the met office on Sunday, warning of high temperatures on Monday. Inland temperatures are expected to rise to 40C. The alert will be ...

A divided Cyprus cannot really heal without a process of reconciliation By Fahri Zihni The 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson wrote “among the calamities of war may be jointly ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made massive changes to his cabinet last week in a move political analysts say is more theater than substance, but the Liberal leader’s close ...

A shrinking expat population and a theatre-going decline in general has impacted membership of the long-established Anglo-Cypriot Theatre company Graham Thomas is a worried man – and it’s not about ...

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has sometimes raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict over Ukraine, said on Sunday that Moscow would have to use a nuclear weapon if ...

Cinephiles are in for a treat this August as the Lemesos International Documentary Festival returns for its 18th edition. The annual Limassol festival kicks off on Tuesday at the Lanitis ...

A fire that broke out at 2.24pm in the area of ​​Palaichori was brought under complete control at 5.20pm, the forestry department said on Sunday. The fire burned ​​10 hectares of ...

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is on an official meeting to the island on Monday to discuss issues of relations between Cyprus and Greece, Turkey, and the EU. ...

Drones have proven extremely useful as a means to help prevent fires, the spokesman of the fire department said on Sunday as he called on the public to become “safety ...

Secularism under threat as summer courses for children offered in mosques “Today, the tyranny of secularism [in the northern part of Cyprus] has matched the tyranny of Greek Cypriots. This ...

President Vladimir Putin reviewed a parade of warships and nuclear submarines in his native St Petersburg on Sunday and announced that the Russian Navy would receive 30 new ships this year. ...

After a heatwave of 10 straight days with 40-plus temperatures, we asked people on the streets of Nicosia if the summer heat really is worse now than it was in the ...

Israel will build a 100 billion shekel ($27 billion) rail expansion that will connect its outlying areas to metropolitan Tel Aviv and, in the future, could provide overland links to Saudi Arabia, ...

An arson attack on a stolen car caused a brush fire that destroyed a hectare of wild vegetation near the old Paphos-Limassol road in the early hours of Sunday, police ...

It is lagging far behind when it comes to environment and sustainability By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The growth of GDP as the main objective of macroeconomic policy is ...

There can be no accepting the Turkish occupation, nor can the current status quo be the future of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday during a memorial service for ...