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China’s leading new-energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer BYD reported strong NEV sales growth in May, company data showed Monday. The Shenzhen-based company said its sales of NEVs, including purely electric ...

U.S. and Australian authorities hacked into an app used by criminals to read millions of encrypted messages, leading to hundreds of arrests of suspected organised crime figures in 18 countries, ...

Several top US Senate Republicans on Monday rejected Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s G7 deal to impose a global minimum corporate tax and allow more countries to tax big multinational ...

European Parliament negotiators agreed with the European Council on common EU standards regulating the secondary market for non-performing loans, the Parliament said in a statement on Monday. The purpose of ...

There have been a series of accusations in the past weeks alleging that both the governments of both Qatar and Turkey have actively provided support for the al-Nusra group in ...

A series of countries have begun vaccinating 12-18-year-olds, or plan to shortly, leading many to ask when – or if – Cyprus will follow suit. One of the few rays of ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou deserves congratulations for not bowing to the nurses who staged a 12-hour work stoppage on Monday to stop the disciplinary procedure against five of their colleagues ...

It’s not Bretton Woods, but it’s a start. The decision by the finance ministers of the G7 countries to create a global minimum tax rate on corporate profits ...

Google said it would make changes to its global advertising business to ensure it did not abuse its dominance, bowing to antitrust pressure for the first time in a landmark ...

Agriculture minister Costas Kadis on Monday met with the new Japanese ambassador Izumi Seki to discuss the planting of a Japanese cherry tree park in the mountain village of Kambos. ...

Clay court king Rafael Nadal overcame a wobbly start to subdue Italian teenager Jannik Sinner 7-5 6-3 6-0 on Monday and book a place in the French Open quarter-finals. The ...

Tourism hotspot Spain‘s grand reopening to international travel got off to a slow start on Monday, with newly relaxed entry requirements failing to attract the desired wave of foreign ...

The health ministry announced one death and 80 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday. A 70-year-old man passed away at Nicosia general hospital on Monday, bringing the death toll to 364, of ...

Several permanent residents were turned away at the Dherynia crossing point by Turkish Cypriot authorities on Sunday because they could not prove that they had not left the country in ...

The community centre and venue Meltemi is starting a new series of events with film screenings by Cypriot artists about Cyprus. Starting this Wednesday, two films are scheduled for this ...

Eighteen people were killed in a fire on Monday at a chemical factory in the western Indian city of Pune, police said. The police said 20 people had survived the blaze ...

Lorenzo Musetti announced his talent to the world but the 19-year-old was unable to pull off a huge shock against Novak Djokovic in the fourth round of the French Open. ...

From 2004 to 2021 one company held a monopoly over the processing of animal waste and by-products, with the government paying a marked-up price for these services despite repeated calls on it ...

In this video, we take a pre-Covid trip to the beautiful Provençal town of Avignon in southeast France, which, in the early Middle Ages, served as the capital of ...

The statistical service will purchase the services of 1,100 census-takers and supervisors in October to December as part of the regular census carried out every ten years. In an announcement on ...

U.S. regulators on Monday approved Biogen Inc’s aducanumab as the first treatment to attack a likely cause of Alzheimer’s disease, sending its shares soaring, despite controversy over ...

The Law Office of the Republic said Monday it is providing the government with legal advice on how to handle the issue of the fenced-off town of Varosha on the ...

Pop singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton wrote her debut single ‘A Thousand Miles’, in her childhood home as a teenager. Little did she know then that the song would became an international ...

Three government bodies signed a partnership agreement on Monday with the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) to boost cooperation and expedite the transition of businesses towards the circular economy. ...