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A U.S. destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on Wednesday, drawing an angry reaction from Beijing, which said its military had “driven away” ...

U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a mob of followers to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a last-ditch bid to remain in power ...

Twitter Inc TWTR.N sued Elon Musk for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world’s richest person ...

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) earlier this week entered into a partnership agreement with software company SoftOne Cyprus. The partnership was ratified through the signing of a memorandum of ...

By Victoras Pallikaras As the world’s capacity to deal with the fast-rising supply of disposable plastic goods becomes overwhelmed, plastic pollution has emerged as one of the most urgent ...

Abortion legislation may have been modernised in 2018 but if what was said at the House human rights committee on Monday is anything to go by, the new provisions have largely ...

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on Monday it would propose “robust” global rules for cryptocurrencies in October, following recent turmoil in markets that has highlighted the need to regulate ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce (Keve) on Tuesday announced that it will be holding a seminar on career prospects in the maritime sector. The seminar, which is being held in ...

The total number of permanent staff employed by the government decreased by 679 persons or 2.5 per cent, with the figure dropping from 26,629 to 25,950, according to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). In ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Easter Island region in the Pacific Ocean near Chile on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth ...

The front axle of the combine harvester involved in a fatal accident in Stroumbi on Monday is now the focus of investigations. The two victims – 53-year-old farmer Nicos Demosthenous, an ...

A forest fire in the village of Sia was brought under full control after it burned a small area of dry grass, the Forestry Department said Tuesday. According to the ...

A forest fire that broke out late on Tuesday afternoon in an area near the Machairas national forest park, in Kapedes, was fully under control, the Forestry Department said. According ...

Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday urged authorities to curb the flow of irregular migrants, pointing out that the cost to state coffers is increasing exponentially. Committee chair of the House ad ...

Moscow’s war in Ukraine must not sideline European Union efforts to cut carbon emissions even as the continent is forced to turn back to coal to cope with reduced ...

The self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on Tuesday opened an embassy in Russia, one of only two countries to recognise the breakaway statelet in eastern Ukraine, and defended its ...

Ireland’s coalition government comfortably won a parliamentary vote of no confidence on Tuesday despite losing its formal majority last week. Opposition party Sinn Fein tabled the motion after coalition ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday eyed closer cooperation with the US in various fields in an effort to explore new beneficial areas of cooperation. In his address at a reception ...

Main opposition party Akel said on Tuesday a bill allowing for a cap on the price of fuel products would head to the House plenum later this week. The decision ...

A bill extending a freeze on property foreclosures to December may not go to the plenum for a vote this week, after it failed to garner the necessary consensus in ...

Soaring temperatures in Portugal forced authorities to place more than half the country on red alert on Tuesday and deploy hundreds of firefighters to combat blazes erupting in the central ...

Eight Conservatives will fight it out to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister after winning enough nominations from their colleagues to go through to the first ...

The island’s university rectors on Tuesday called for a push forward of legislative regulation that will allow courses at public universities in Cyprus to be taught in languages other ...

If it is more live music you are after, July has plenty for music fans to look forward to and something for every style. With rock concerts from international bands, ...