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British construction activity shrank for a ninth month in a row in September, though at the slowest pace in three months, and broader private sector activity fell for the first ...

MPs on Monday began discussions on new regulations giving civil servants the option to work fewer hours, with a commensurate reduction in wages. The regulations aim to allow civil servants ...

The way President Nikos Christodoulides speaks in public, nobody would have guessed that he had once had a career as a diplomat, that he served for almost five years as ...

The Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s inspector general when making criminal referrals, according to seven people familiar with the ...

Harvard University can be sued by families alleging it mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school and whose parts were then sold on the black market ...

Syria on Monday published preliminary results of its indirect vote for the first parliament since Bashar al-Assad’s historic toppling last year, with election officials acknowledging a low success rate ...

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg arrived in Greece to a cheering pro-Palestinian crowd on Monday after she and hundreds of other activists captured by Israel on the high seas were deported ...

The north’s ‘parliamentary’ legal affairs committee on Monday discussed a draft resolution demanding a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. The draft resolution was signed by various members of ...

A debate in parliament about a controversial law regulating public gatherings quickly turned chaotic on Monday, as politicians also bickered about last week’s pro-Palestinian protest while also arguing about ...

All signs point to an imminent agreement on the cost of living allowance (CoLa) between trade unions and employer organisations, with further meetings of Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou and Finance ...

Five vehicles were involved in a traffic crash early on Monday evening on Larnaca’s Eleftheria avenue, which left three drivers hospitalised. “Three of the five drivers of the vehicles ...

Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block US President Donald Trump from deploying hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into the streets of Chicago. The Democratic-led state and ...

A film about Cyprus’ enigmatic national poet is about to hit the big screen. The documentary Vasilis Michaelides – Hidden Winds, directed by Thomas Kallis, will premiere on Friday at Pantheon ...

The Miracle Babies association on Monday called for the urgent intervention by the auditor-general and deputy minister to the President over the expansion and upgrade of the neonatal intensive care ...

Investors and experts are both paying close attention to the volatile market as the last few months of 2025 draw to a close. Fears of a possible crypto correction have spread ...

American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for work shedding light on how the immune ...

A spike in liver cancer cases was recorded in Cyprus in the last year, the Association of Liver Patients Promitheas said on Monday, urging people to take regular medical checks. “...

Car sharing is proving to be more of a problem than a solution in Paphos, with vehicles taking up parking places for long periods of time, Akel’s municipal group ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday called for clarity after the governments of Greece and Cyprus issued terse statements in each other’s direction over the Great Sea Interconnector. “We ...

Israel said it deported on Monday campaigner Greta Thunberg and another 170 activists from an international flotilla it prevented last week from delivering aid to Gaza, sending them to Greece and ...

Cyprus, a country with more than six decades of maritime tradition, reaffirmed its role as a global shipping leader during the opening of the Maritime Cyprus 2025 Conference in Limassol on ...

An investigation into whether offences were committed by officers during last Thursday’s protest for Gaza at the foreign ministry is to be launched by the independent authority for the ...

A flurry of listings on the London Stock Exchange last week has raised hopes of a revival after one of the most sluggish years on record, bankers and advisers said. ...

Ukraine’s military said on Monday it had struck one of Russia’s main factories producing explosives for a wide variety of ammunition for Russia’s army as well as ...