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Israeli intelligence services (Mossad) have located and arrested the man behind the thwarted terrorist attack against an Israeli businessman on the island. The man in question, Youssef Shihabazi Abasalilou, was ...

France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots on Thursday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis triggered by the deadly police ...

Cyprus-based PropTech startup buildbuild, which develops software for managing construction projects and increasing their marginality in the small and midsize (SMB) sector, announced this week that it has raised $1.25 million ...

The two men accused of a double murder in Limassol were charged with premeditated murder on Friday morning and remanded in custody for seven days. The pair appeared in court ...

Following a decision by the Board of Directors of Alpha Bank Cyprus and the necessary approvals from regulatory authorities, Miltos Michaelas has taken on the role of CEO of Alpha ...

On Friday after the dispersal of local thin fog and low cloud, the weather will be mostly clear. In the early afternoon locally increased cloud cover may bring isolated showers, ...

H&M (HMb.ST) shares hit a 16-month high on Thursday after its second-quarter profit beat estimates with its summer collection doing well as warmer weather arrives in Europe. ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation scrapping mid-term exams at public high schools while keeping one final exam at the end of the academic year which will carry a 30 per ...

It was encouraging to hear Finance Minister Makis Keravnos defending the government’s decision to end the subsidy of all electricity bills and the reduction of the consumer tax on ...

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths pushed the Security Council on Thursday to extend for 12 months its approval of a long-running humanitarian aid operation that delivers help to millions of ...

Pakistan’s finance minister said a staff level agreement for a crucial bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund was “very close” and expected in the next 24 hours. Islamabad is ...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg visited Kyiv on Thursday to draw attention to environmental damage caused by war in Ukraine and criticized the world’s response to the June 6 collapse ...

U.S. House Republicans sought testimony on Thursday from more than a dozen officials from the Justice Department, FBI and other government agencies involved in the federal tax investigation of ...

Murky, dull skies loomed over tens of millions of Americans on Thursday as smoke from prolonged Canadian wildfires drifted across the Midwest and East, causing unhealthy and, in some spots, ...

The government has spent some €440 million to cushion consumers from the financial impact of the ongoing global energy crisis, while making other moves aimed at driving down the cost of ...

The United States on Thursday said it condemned the burning of a Koran outside a mosque in Sweden, but added that issuing the permit for the demonstration supported freedom of ...

Israel said on Thursday its Mossad intelligence service carried out an operation in Iran to capture the suspected leader of an Iranian plot to attack Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus and ...

The junior ministry of research and innovation has no staff in place to prevent a cyberattack, it emerged on Thursday at the House audit committee. The statements came from the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively prohibiting affirmative action policies long used to raise ...

Binance’s European banking partner Paysafe Payment Solutions said on Thursday it will cease offering its embedded wallet solution to the US cryptocurrency exchange across the European Economic Area (EEA) ...

Paphos district court on Thursday handed down a 17-year jail sentence on a man, having earlier found him guilty of smuggling in 22 kilograms of cannabis. The 24-year-old defendant had been ...

A night of swinging tunes and knee-jerking jazz melodies will bring dancing vibes to Sarah’s Jazz Club this Saturday. Welcoming the first of July, The Steppin’ Out Jazz Band ...

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who is running for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Thursday to meet President Volodymyr ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Thursday met students from Ayios Georgios High School in Lakatamia to award them for their participation in the Junior Achievement Cyprus “Student Enterprise” competition. In ...