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Nearly 20 blazes raged across Portugal and several burned in western Spain on Wednesday, menacing villages and disrupting tourists’ holidays amid a heatwave that meteorologists expect to push temperatures into the ...

The European Union is preparing a seventh package of sanctions against Moscow but it is already clear that it will not curb imports of Russian gas as too many member ...

Pope Francis has named three women, two nuns and a lay woman, to a previously all-male committee that advises him in selecting the world’s bishops, the Vatican said on ...

Russian and proxy forces have entered the town of Siversk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday. Reuters could not independently verify the report. ...

Bilateral relations, the need to increase the energy independence of the European Union and their views on migration were among the issues discussed during talks between President Nicos Anastasiades and ...

Raheem Sterling has returned “home” after swapping Manchester for London by signing for Chelsea on a five-year deal. The England international ended a seven-year stay at Manchester City as he ...

As spaces for artistic expression, museums not only host exhibitions but also sometimes performances. Majestic State Gallery in Nicosia welcomes two artists to its grounds this July who will present ...

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime ...

The overwhelming perception in Cyprus is that corruption is widespread, with political parties and the health care system seen as particularly vulnerable to abusing their power, according to a Eurobarometer ...

The Claret Jug weighs only 2.5kg but when The Open is played on the Old Course at the ‘Home of Golf’, the trophy comes with the added weight of history. ...

Temperatures will hit 40C inland on Thursday, the met office said on Wednesday as it issued a yellow alert – the second in as many days – for extreme hot weather. The ...

US consumer prices surged 9.1% in June, the largest annual increase in more than four decades amid stubbornly high costs for gasoline, food and rent, cementing the case for another 75-basis-point ...

A supply chain crisis triggered by the global pandemic deprived makers of PCs and smartphones to cars of computer chips needed to make their products. All that suddenly changed over ...

The incident involving the alleged collusion of a senior police officer with an inmate at the central prisons currently under investigation brought to the forefront the prison department’s year ...

Implementation of the PDO (protected designation of origin) regulation would signal the end of the sale of halloumi abroad, said the general manager of the Pancyprian Cattle-Farmers Association (Poa), Nicos ...

The dollar surged to a 20-year high against a basket of currencies and the euro broke below parity against the greenback after data on Wednesday showed US consumer price inflation ...

The United States called on Russia to immediately release Ukrainians it has forced out of their home country and allow outside observers, citing reports Moscow was putting Ukrainian children up ...

A French Senate report on Wednesday slammed organisational failings that resulted in crowd disorder and crime at May’s Champions League soccer final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, which sparked ...

A 47-year-old woman was jailed for 20 months in connection with six cases of theft by Famagusta District Court on Wednesday. According to the police, between March and May 2022, the woman ...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday,bringing to an apparent end his family’s near two-decade dominance of the country after a massive popular uprising ...

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday, kicking off a high-stakes trip to the Middle East dominated by efforts to persuade Gulf allies to pump more oil ...

The Cyprus Bar Association called on Wednesday for its members to register for the “Justice for All” scheme offering free legal advice to the financially stressed. The association unveiled the ...

Conservative lawmakers will begin voting shortly to narrow the field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and prime minister, in an increasingly fractious contest marked ...

The Eastern Mediterranean can play a decisive role in addressing the energy crisis resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday as he assured that ...