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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by ...

Nursing staff at Makarios hospital’s Neonatal intensive care unit on Thursday demonstrated outside parliament over severe staffing shortages. The nurses, members of Pasyno union, complained while a debate was ...

By Sharon Thompson In 1938, a group of feminist agitators came together in London to tackle what they saw as the most pressing issue of their time: inequality in marriage. For ...

A fact-finding mission from the European Parliament’s committee evaluating the use of Pegasus software is travelling to Cyprus on November 1, Cybc reported on Thursday. According to a post on ...

The ‘cabinet’ in the north intends to authorise the creation of a ‘national’ airline Turkish Cypriot media reported on Thursday. The decision was also published in the ‘official gazette’. Citing ...

There is more to Paphos than the beach and fancy villas finds PAUL LAMBIS at a museum dedicated to the region’s religious history Paphos is more than just a ...

Russia pushed ahead on Thursday with its biggest conscription drive since World War Two, prompting some men to rush abroad, while Ukraine demanded “just punishment” for a seven-month-old invasion that ...

A military court in the north on Thursday extended the detention of a Greek Cypriot bicommunal activist by a further five days. Andreas Soudjis has been held in the north ...

By Liam Proud Banks usually make for tricky private equity targets. Turnoffs include demanding regulators and high leverage, which stops buyers from piling on further debt. But when prices are ...

Consumer inflation in Sri Lanka accelerated to 70.2% in August,the statistics department said on Wednesday, as the island nation reels under its worst economic crisis in decades. The National Consumer ...

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that any weapons in Moscow’s arsenal, including strategic nuclear weapons, could be used to defend territories incorporated in Russia from Ukraine. ...

The dollar surged to a fresh two-decade high and stocks slid on Thursday with investors unsettled by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive outlook for US interest rates and braced for ...

The Paphos Criminal Court decided on Thursday to postpone the hearing of David Hunter on trial for the pre-meditated murder of his wife, following a request filed by his attorneys. ...

A monument commemorating Strovolos residents who died or went missing in 1974 has been vandalised, Strovolos municipality announced on Thursday. In a written statement, the municipality described the damages to the ...

Oil rebounded on Thursday after sliding 1 per cent in the previous session as concerns over tight supplies heading into winter eclipsed fears of a global recession. Brent crude futures rose 15 ...

Presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides said he has been victim of an organised attempt to slander and derail him, according to reports appeared on Thursday. Speaking at a campaign gathering on ...

Protesters in Tehran and several other Iranian cities torched police stations and vehicles on Thursday as unrest triggered by the death of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic’s ...

First impressions can often paint a distorted picture, particularly when it comes to restaurants, however, in this instance they were very much on point. As we were shown to our ...

Dozens of Russians living in Cyprus held an anti-mobilisation rally on Wednesday evening after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his plans to draft up to 300,000 military reservists to fight in ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Mexico early on Thursday, claiming the life of a woman in Mexico City who fell and hit her head as residents evacuated their homes during ...

Emmanuel Lefebvre produces thousands of tonnes of endives on his farm in northern France annually, but this year he may abandon his crop because of the crippling energy costs required ...

On Monday, about eleven million kilometres from Earth, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will make the first attempt to divert an asteroid from its orbit. But forget ...

Iranian authorities and a Kurdish rights group reported rising death tolls on Wednesday as anger at the death of a woman detained by the morality police fuelled protests for a ...

An increase in the positivity rate of coronavirus infections among students was registered after the start of the new school year, epidemiologist and member of the health ministry monitoring unit ...