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President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday signed the book of condolences for the Queen at Lancaster House in London near Buckingham Palace. On Monday he will attend the funeral of Queen ...

Oil companies operating the Aphrodite gas field have approved a €192 million investment to start drilling, Israeli company NewMed said on Sunday. The amount will also cover other development costs for ...

The Animal Party on Sunday demanded answers from the agriculture ministry over the delay in issuing the conclusions of how savannah cat Berton died more than a month after a ...

A man found with 70 cartons of cigarettes and 13.75kg of shisha tobacco in addition to nine boxes of heated cigarettes for which duty had not been paid was on Sunday ...

Initial expectations for the Cyprus-Greece passenger ferry were surpassed with almost 8,000 people using the service this year. The service, which closed for the year on Friday, was initially estimated to ...

Aiming to help expats learn to speak the language with help from locals, the Greek for Freak initiative was launched this week in Kissonerga, organiser Alice Moustier told the Sunday ...

The dawn of social media has led to an alarming loosening of the general rules of what is acceptable in terms of column writing When in 2015 I decided to seek ...

By Vitalii Hnidyi Joy, trepidation and grief flickered across the face of Nataliia Yelistratova as she sat next to her husband on a special train back to their home town ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan said on Sunday the death toll from their border conflict had risen to 71 people, as a fragile ceasefire held between two Central Asian nations for a second ...

People using a Hellenic Bank card can now get CashBack from 350 points around the island, the bank said. Customers can claim up to €100 back each time from the specific points, ...

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was felt by people in Paphos at lunchtime. The quake hit at 12.50 with an epicentre some 26km off the coast. The quake had ...

Reckless in his youth but vibrant as he ages, one iconic rocker tells THEO PANAYIDES about his lucky timing and how he has weathered 50 years on the road, being marked ...

By Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland The outbreak of the Second World War, which began on September 1, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the Nazi Third Reich, ...

By Michael Holden and William James U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to pay tribute at the coffin of Queen Elizabeth in London on Sunday, joining hundreds of thousands ...

The Russian army, seeking contract soldiers for what it calls the “special military operation” in Ukraine, is using mobile recruiting trucks to attract volunteers, offering nearly $3,000 a month as an ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Sunday said the total lifting of the US arms embargo against Cyprus was a “historic” development. This decision, he said, reflects excellent Cyprus-USA relations. He ...

From laptops to fridges to mobile apps, smart devices connected to the internet will have to assess their cybersecurity risks and fix them under draft European Union rules announced on ...

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday strongly condemned what she said were “illegal” border attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenia, using a visit to the Russian ally ...

The National Guard this week co-organised themilitary training exercise Military Lion with the armed forces of Jordan and the central administration of the United States, the defence ministry announced on ...

A total of 165 ships with 3.7 million tonnes of agricultural products on board have left Ukraine under a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, ...

A man was injured from an explosion which appears to have been cased by the incorrect use of a gas cylinder, the fire service announced on Sunday. The incident happened ...

Women still get paid less than men and in Cyprus this difference is nine per cent, gender equality commissioner Iosifina Antoniou said on Sunday, marked around the world as International ...

By St. John Coombes Much of the reason for Brexit was for the UK to ‘take back control’ of borders, money and laws. The reason, so the argument went, was ...

Dherynia municipality has been awarded as the Green Town of Cyprus for the initiatives it has taken for the environment, it announced on Sunday. The award was given by the ...