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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, an Austrian government spokesperson said, in what would be the first face-to-face meeting between Putin and ...

Russian forces continued shelling targets in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, as Washington said it would meet Kyiv’s request for more military aid by providing “the weapons it needs” to ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,459 had tested positive from 57,728 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.53 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

April is one of the best times to escape and go hiking and nowhere more so than the Akamas Some of us travel to explore the sites, while others do ...

Controlling prices by getting civil servants to draw a line between legitimate and illegitimate profit is a futile exercise What is the margin of profit? On the face of it, ...

The United States is committed to providing Ukraine with “the weapons it needs” to defend itself against Russia, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Ukraine ...

President Joe Biden will virtually meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the White House said, at a time when the United States has made clear it does ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will attend an event on Wednesday the Ledra Palace, which will also be attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar under the aegis of Colin Stewart, Special ...

Just in time for the start of the summer season, Cyprus is getting a new flying ambassador, a plane that was christened ‘Larnaca’ at a special ceremony on Sunday. Larnaca, ...

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, after a string of deadly Arab and Palestinian attacks in ...

Russian forces fired rockets into Ukraine’s Luhansk and Dnipro regions on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, completely destroying an airport and wounding at least five people. Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of ...

With tectonic shifts on the world stage, now really is the time to solve the Cyprus problem and put Cyprus’ energy finds to use In a fast-changing geopolitical world – following ...

Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides on Sunday suggested that Nicosia was keen on joining Nato in light of the current status quo on the island, if it wasn’t for Turkey. ...

As presidential elections got underway in France on Sunday, the French Embassy in Nicosia was operating a polling station for individuals who are registered to vote. A French Embassy spokesperson ...

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova confirmed on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday. Moskalkova said that among those returned to Russia were ...

Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the U.S. Congress that Washington would not quit it, Iranian state media ...

Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai’s Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure that she was getting round-the-clock care at the city’s largest such centre. That ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for an Easter truce in Ukraine, and in an apparent reference to Russia, questioned the value of planting a victory flag “on a heap of ...

By Alicia Garcia-Herrero The unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine will devastate its economy, but the extent of the severity partially depends on ...

Cyprus’s defence minister, Charalambos Petridis said that the island’s defence expenditure in 2021 was at its highest level since 2004. Speaking at the Pancyprian Artillery Reserve Association’s annual gala, ...

Elon Musk, Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) biggest shareholder, on Saturday suggested a raft of changes to the social media giant’s Twitter Blue premium subscription service, including slashing its ...

By Jonathan Smith Food systems are highly complex and interconnected. If our grocery stores and kitchens are to have a future with packed shelves, we need to be able to ...

American University of Beirut campus a massive boost Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos is bursting with pride that a campus of the prestigious American University of Beirut is coming to the ...

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova confirmed on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday. Moskalkova said that among those exchanged to Russia, there were ...