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The 14th summit of BRICS, an emerging-market group that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, will be held this week in virtual format under the theme of “Foster ...

Limassol police are investigating a case of online fraud after receiving a complaint on Wednesday from a 66-year-old man who reported having been robbed of €88,930. The man said that, around ...

Diko’s executive bureau has decided to propose to the central committee that the party back independent presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides in the February elections. The central committee is expected ...

Germany triggered the “alarm stage” of its emergency gas plan on Thursday in response to falling Russian supplies but stopped short of allowing utilities to pass on soaring energy costs ...

In today’s episode, the two firefighting planes sent by the Cyprus government on Wednesday to help fight the big fire in the northern part of the island were back ...

The month of June is dedicated to LGBTQI+ awareness and its annual series of events aims to highlight the community, its rights and struggles without forgetting to celebrate love in ...

Thursday will be mainly fine with temperatures about 2C above the seasonal average at 37C inland, remaining at the same levels on Friday. According to the early morning forecast issued ...

Firefighters battled a wildfire in southwestern Turkey from land and air on Thursday, as hopes that the blazes were contained fizzled after they spread again due to high temperatures and ...

Cryptocurrency trading increasingly resembles the US stock market of the late 1920s, Switzerland’s top market regulator said on Wednesday, calling for regulators to take more action to protect consumers ...

The Cyprus economy and competitiveness council on Wednesday recommended the establishment of a new deputy ministry for the environment and sustainability. The recommendation for the creation of a new deputy ...

The cabinet of ministers this week approved a bill amending the income tax law so that the existing tax exemption for the amount of investment in an approved small-to-medium innovative ...

Cyprus, the land of strays, exports up to 5,000 dogs and cats every year, deputies heard at the house environment committee on Wednesday. In the last seven years, some 30,000 dogs have ...

Sometimes it’s hard to know if the pollsters in Brussels actually believe the things they hear from the people they survey in member states from time to time, or ...

The Cyprus Ports Authority (Alk) on Wednesday said that the commercialisation of the Larnaca port has been one of the most important events that took place in the Cyprus maritime ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday hailed the European Union’s expected offer of candidate status for his battle-weary nation as Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s second biggest city ...

Human rights defenders in Greece, particularly those documenting the treatment of migrants and refugees, face smear campaigns and are treated like criminals, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary ...

The senior police officer, who allegedly colluded with an inmate to damage the reputation of the central prisons director Anna Aristotelous, was on Wednesday suspended until July 20. Justice Minister Stefi ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Turkey for the first time in years on Wednesday for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan aimed at fully normalising ties that were ...

The fire that broke out in the Kotsiatis area on Wednesday after noon and later spread outside the former landfill was put under control later in the day according to ...

President Anastasiades left for Brussels on Wednesday to take part in the European Council meetings. On the agenda of the European summit, which will be held on Thursday and Friday ...

The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan on Wednesday hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from ...

Europe must keep up its support for Ukraine even as faltering Russian gas supplies raise recession fears, a senior EU official said, adding that a shift towards using coal to ...

More than 1.2 million tickets have been sold for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, organisers said on Wednesday. The most recent phase of ticket sales, a random selection draw, closed at the ...

Nearly two-thirds of Europeans consider membership of the European Union a “good thing”, according to a survey by the bloc’s parliament published on Wednesday, marking the highest result in 15 ...