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A plume of smoke rises from a burning field in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, an increasingly common sight across swathes of farmland in the south and east of the country ...

The current energy crisis and inflation have undone the rebound in the Cyprus economy registered last year, depleting households’ disposable income and posing a threat to the stability of the ...

Flights to and from Britain’s London Luton airport were temporarily disrupted on Monday after soaring temperatures caused a defect in its runway, prompting airlines to delay or divert their ...

Nicosia municipality urged deputies to crack down on what it says were weaknesses in current legislation, which led to derelict buildings that were increasingly dangerous being rented out. In its ...

The governments of France and the United Arab Emirates signed on Monday a strategic agreement to cooperate in the energy sector, the French government said. The partnership aimed to identify ...

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday another 500 million euros ($504 million) of EU funding to supply arms to Ukraine, taking the bloc’s security support to 2.5 billion euros since Russia ...

A legendary evening of flamenco fusion is arriving soon as Umana productions present a concert by the Grammy and Emmy award-winning Argentine guitarist Hernan Romero. On July 28, Romero will take ...

There were two keys to unlock the five-year deadlock in the Cyprus problem, said independent presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades – natural gas and European-Turkish relations. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had ...

A fire that broke out earlier on Monday afternoon in an area near the villages of Pachna and Kivides has been brought under control. According to Fire Brigade spokesman Andreas ...

The 43-year-old Greek Cypriot man, who was remanded after he was caught on video assaulting a Congolese woman holding her infant in Larnaca, will be referred to a trial on ...

Almost 60 years after they first formed, Scorpions played in Limassol this week. They say they will continue while still having fun. THEO PANAYIDES gets an insight into the men on ...

The nine communities in the Vasilikos area on Monday announced that they will file a complaint with the European Commission against the Republic of Cyprus regarding the issue of repeated ...

Elias Neocleous & Co LLC are delighted to report that, for the fourth consecutive year, both the firm’s Private Client Department, and Head of Department, Elias Neocleous, have been ...

Sales of electric fans, hoses, air conditioning units and sprinklers are soaring as Britons swelter amid record temperatures, retailers said. Britain was on course for its hottest day on record ...

For decades, Antonis Disios’ workshop was abuzz with the sound of sewing machines stitching fur coats for his wealthy Russian buyers. In March, European Union sanctions against Russia over the ...

The full implementation of halloumi PDO (protected designation of origin) is expected “very soon” Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday, as more halloumi makers were expected to register in ...

England’s World Cup hero Ben Stokes has announced his shock retirement from one-day cricket, departing with a word of warning about the “unsustainable” schedule. Stokes’ bloody-minded brilliance was the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday recognised a track and field athlete for helping her teammate who had fallen near the finish line at an international multi-sport event. Lanitio high school ...

Alphabet’s Google was fined 21.8 billion roubles ($387 million) on Monday by a Russian court for a repeated failure to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax news agency reported. ...

Evergreen AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will stay at the Serie A champions beyond his 41st birthday after agreeing a one-year contract extension, the club said on Monday. Details of ...

Improvements, which will reduce the burden on the Lakatamia welfare office that assists asylum seekers, were under way, the deputy minister of social welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on Monday. There ...

Living in the Mediterranean means the chances of having a tan to offset the summer’s colours increase. NIKI CHARALAMBOUS on how to choose those colours Undoubtedly, half the fun ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sidelined his childhood friend as head of Ukraine‘s security service, and another close ally as top prosecutor, in Kyiv’s biggest internal purge of the war, ...

Twelve people have been arrested in Paphos on suspicion of domestic violence over the past month. Paphos police CID chief and spokesman Michalis Nicolaou told the Cyprus News Agency that 15 ...