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The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen began a military operation on Saturday to stop attacks on its oil facilities and “protect global energy sources,” Saudi state media reported. The coalition ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The war in Ukraine and the sanctions will have profound effects on the Russian economy itself, will cause a geopolitical shift, and will certainly have serious macroeconomic ...

Russia was conducting drills on islands claimed by Tokyo, Japanese media said on Saturday, days after Moscow halted peace talks with Japan because of its sanctions over Russia’s invasion ...

China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as ...

The agriculture ministry is working on proposals to support livestock breeders that will go to the cabinet for approval the soonest possible, the ministry said as it welcomed a European ...

A letter, demanding that the twice-yearly exams for lyceums should be scrapped, was sent to the education minister and it was signed by secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek, the confederation ...

The health ministry announced that three people had died of Covid-19 and that 3,329 had tested positive from 45,788 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 7.27 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (24 units) Mall of Cyprus (underground parking area) 9 am – 6 pm 94056785 Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 ...

The retrospective exhibition titled Life in Motion dedicated to the artist Spyros Demetriadis and his 45-year career will be inaugurated on Tuesday, March 29, at 7pm, at the Municipal Arts Centre ...

Lebanese banks will be allowed to sell the local currency for US dollars and vice-versa starting March 28, on the basis of the rate determined by the central bank’s “Sayrafa” ...

HSBC (HSBA.L) is shunning prospective Russian clients and declining credit to some existing ones, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, as the bank seeks to shield ...

President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of trying to cancel Russian culture, including the works of great composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov. At ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Friday he is confident that problems facing Nicosia bus company employees will be resolved at a meeting he, the labour minister and representatives of ...

Germany will look to extend their winning run under coach Hansi Flick when they face Israel and Netherlands in the coming days but the team’s priority is to peak ...

Police have made a second arrest in connection with the discovery of 132 kilos of cannabis in a container at Limassol port earlier this month. They said the arrest of a 61...

A 25-year-old man caught speeding at nearly twice the legal limit on Friday is due in court on Monday, police said. The man was stopped at around 9.25 am on Friday ...

Russia warned the West on Friday that billing in roubles for billions of dollars of natural gas exports to Europe could be just days away, Moscow’s toughest response yet ...

Did you think the Middle East was all flat, hot desert? Then welcome to the Asir Province! Found in the very southwest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and sharing ...

The non-resolution of Cyprus problem is a great challenge for the island but also the international community, the Greek ambassador to the Republic Ioannis Papameletiou said Friday, adding that Greece ...

The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the ...

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney was taken off stage by officials during a speech in Belfast on Friday after the event organiser said a suspicious device had been discovered in ...

The head of the U.N. human rights team in Ukraine said on Friday that monitors had received more information about mass graves in the besieged port city of Mariupol, ...

When asked to estimate their own intelligence, most people will say they are above average, even though this is a statistical improbability. This is a normal, healthy cognitive bias and ...

There will be more relaxations to Covid-19 measures in the next 10 days, provided hospital admissions remain stable, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Friday. Speaking to reporters in Paphos after ...