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A push for more bicycles and smart traffic systems By Jonathan Shkurko An improved bus system is the obvious solution to congested city centres, but running parallel to that the ...

German police said on Sunday they had stopped more than 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a bayonet, a machete and batons who were trying to patrol the Polish border ...

A fire broke out on Saturday on containers on a cargo ship carrying mining chemicals off British Columbia, and the Canadian Coast Guard said it is working with the U....

The system would protect both communities By Christos P Panayiotides Before attempting to explain why the issue of political equality is important for the Turkish Cypriots, but also for the ...

Israel’s deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that the Biden administration may shelve its plan to reopen a U.S diplomatic mission for Palestinians in Jerusalem after Israel voiced ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is to visit Thessaloniki, Greece to address on Monday an event for Cyprus’ participation in the Greek War of Independence, organised by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. ...

Police on Sunday morning said they issued more than 1,000 fines within 48 hours during traffic checks in all districts. The checks were carried out between 6 am Friday and 6 am Sunday. In ...

I’ve been having this conversation with friends, and we never seem to get anywhere. Maybe your readers can help. Everyone agrees that the main reason for Covid-19 restrictions isn’...

By Daren Butler Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries ...

A 30-year-old man suspected of people smuggling was arrested after a boat with irregular migrants arrived in Paralimni in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The boat was spotted ...

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, on Saturday adopted a decision to authorize the State Council to pilot property tax reforms in ...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer heads into an Old Trafford showdown with Liverpool hoping Manchester United’s stunning Champions League comeback against Atalanta was the start of “something big”. United overturned a 2...

Many small business owners in South Korea recognise themselves in the cash-strapped characters of the wildly popular Netflix (NFLX.O) drama ‘Squid Game’, who vie desperately for a chance to ...

Led by the government, politicians in Cyprus accommodate banks using any means at their disposal, to the detriment of the economy and taxpayer By Savvakis C. Savvides In a country ...

China’s fiscal revenue logged a year-on-year increase of 16.3 per cent in the first nine months of the year, official data showed Friday. The country’s fiscal revenue amounted to 16.4 ...

Colombia‘s armed forces have captured Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, in the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the Andean country since the death of Pablo Escobar, President ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak plans a 5 billion pound ($6.9 billion) programme to fund health research and 3 billion pounds of extra funding for further education in next week’s budget, finance ...

To increase the three per cent using public transport we need expanded routes and park and ride schemes, better connectivity and more bus lanes By Antigoni Pitta Urban mobility in ...

The months of lockdowns, restrictions on movement, distance learning and work from home, made us all forget about the traffic chaos that was part of our daily lives before the ...

More concern about next elections than worrying about next 30 years By Charles Ellinas There is a huge gap between what we need to do about climate change in the region ...

One death and 97 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Saturday, the health ministry announced. The death concerns an 83-year-old woman. The number of deaths so far is 568: 361 men and 207 women ...

The health ministry announces the testing sites for Sunday in all districts, 47 in total. People need to present their ID, or passport or driver’s licence for identification purposes. District ...

By Yousef Saba, Saeed Azhar and Marwa Rashad Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said on Saturday that the world’s top oil exporter aims to reach ‘net zero’ emissions of ...

Famagusta mayor Simos Ioannou visited on Saturday the fenced area of Varosha along with members of the municipal council to see first-hand the scale of the interventions carried out by ...