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Cuba will send nearly 500 doctors to the Calabria region of southern Italy, Cuban state media reported this week, part of a broader program that sends surplus medics from the communist-run ...

President Joe Biden’s latest security assistance package for Ukraine includes surveillance drones and for the first time mine-resistant vehicles, a senior US defense official said on Friday. Since Russian ...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari expressed concern on Friday over large–scale crude oil theft, saying it was affecting the country’s revenues “enormously“. Nigeria lost $1 billion in revenue during ...

Russia will halt gas supplies to Europe for three days at the end of the month via its main pipeline into the region, state energy giant Gazprom said on Friday, ...

A large overgrowth of toxic algae linked to industrial pollution is the most likely culprit behind mass fish deaths in the river Oder, a German research institute said. Tonnes of ...

Bank of Cyprus (BoC) said on Friday it had received and unanimously rejected “unequivocally” three unsolicited, conditional, non-binding proposals from Lone Star relating to a possible cash offer for the ...

A US federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of an Islamic State cell known as “The Beatles” to life in prison for involvement in a hostage-taking plot that led ...

Reactions over Cyprus’ link with the espionage case involving the Greek state spying on Greek EU lawmaker Nikos Androulakis continue to mount as EU parliament’s plenary session looms. The ...

Negotiators for the islands Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities are expected to resume with online meetings next week in ongoing efforts to kick-start talks. According to CNA, the online ...

It is almost time for another annual festival to return as Kypria International Festival opens soon with two performances in Nicosia and Limassol. En Crypto is a collaborative production between ...

The island’s unemployment rate stood at 6.8 per cent of the labour force in the second quarter of 2022, recording a decrease of 1.6 per cent compared with the corresponding quarter of 2021. ...

Explosions erupted overnight near military bases deep in Russian-held areas of Ukraine and Russia itself, an apparent display of Kyiv’s growing ability to pummel Moscow’s logistics far from ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that shelling of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which he blamed on Kyiv, could result in ...

A further ten cargo ships are being loaded with grain in Ukrainian Black Sea ports and being prepared for shipment under a food export agreement brokered last month, Ukraine’s ...

Fourteen people were killed including at least five children in a rocket attack on a market in the northern Syrian city of Al-Bab on Friday, according to emergency responders working ...

European countries could stretch out their limited stocks of the monkeypox vaccine by changing the way the shot is administered as a temporary measure, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said ...

Police on Friday warned of yet another email scam falsely presenting Cyprus police as the senders. According to police, the latest emails are being sent from fake electronic addresses and ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has told firms offering ‘buy now, pay later’ loans to spell out the cost of late repayments to customers as the UK cost-of-living crisis intensifies. Companies ...

Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante will be out for a few weeks due to a hamstring injury sustained during the clash with Tottenham Hotspur last weekend, manager Thomas Tuchel said ...

An Indonesian man jailed for his role in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings could be released on parole in days after his sentence was reduced, a law official said on Friday, ...

Cameroonians marched across southern Nicosia on Friday to protest the violent intercommunal clashes that forced thousands to flee the African country. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Office of the ...

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Friday she had taken a drugs test in the wake of video footage published earlier this week that showed her partying with friends, ...

In the thirteenth episode of “Weekend Escapes,” we visit Hilton Nicosia. Well positioned in the centre of the city, in one of the most exclusive residential areas, Hilton Nicosia provides ...

Honey imports to Cyprus from countries outside the European Union decreased between 2016 and 2021, while exports to countries outside the EU increased during the same period, according to data published by ...