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President Nicos Anastasiades has congratulated Emmanuel Macron for his re-election to the French presidency. In a message on social media on Sunday, Anastasiades wished Macron “every success in his duties”. “...

An independent report into lockdown gatherings held at Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office and residence is “excoriating” for the British prime minister and will make things “incredibly difficult” for ...

President Emmanuel Macron beat far-right challenger Marine Le Pen with a solid margin, final results showed on Monday, but he showed no triumphalism as he acknowledged widespread discontent and all ...

Police are seeking information that could help locate 16-year-old Alissa Pitt, who has been absent from her home in Nicosia since Sunday night. The 16-year-old is described as approximately 1.55m ...

Do you want to invest in Bitcoin but don’t know how or where to start? If so, here’s where and how you can invest in this cryptocurrency. Over ...

After a two-year break, Ayia Napa municipality is again set to host an international Sculpture Symposium, the eighth in its series, it announced on Monday. In the last two years, ...

Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich have clinched their respective Ligue 1 and Bundesliga titles. PSG were held 1-1 by Lens at the Parc des Princes but moved 16 points clear of ...

A rocket launched from Lebanon on Monday struck harmlessly in Israel, which responded with artillery fire, in an apparent spillover of Palestinian-Israeli confrontations at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. Flareups along ...

Police were called on Sunday afternoon after a nine-year-old boy was rushed to the A&E department of the Nicosia General hospital, after being bitten by a dog. According ...

Honda Motor Co (7267.T) plans to build millions of electric vehicles (EV) by 2030 using three new dedicated platforms, with one to be jointly developed with US partner General Motors Co (...

Russia said on Monday it would investigate the cause of a large fire that erupted in the early hours of the morning at an oil storage facility in the city ...

A 20-year-old man was arrested in Famagusta district for a case of stabbing, threat, joint assault and injury. According to police statement, on Friday night during an argument with three ...

The forest fire which broke out in the Moniatis area of Limassol district on Sunday has been brought under complete control, an announcement of the forestry department said. The fire, ...

Battered US stocks are facing a potentially painful stretch in the weeks ahead, as hawkish Federal Reserve policy, rising bond yields, geopolitical uncertainty and the corporate earnings season fuel investor ...

European Central Bank policymakers are keen to end their bond purchase scheme at the earliest possible moment and raise interest rates as soon as July but certainly no later than ...

Several Russian banks plan to issue payment cards that use the network of China UnionPay as well as that of home-grown payment system Mir, after Visa Inc (V.N) and ...

Making the first official U.S. visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded two months ago, Washington’s top diplomat and its defense secretary pledged additional military aid, including advanced weapons, ...

Liverpool kept up the pressure in the Premier League title race with a 2-0 win over Merseyside rivals Everton, who dropped into the relegation zone. Substitute Divock Origi helped break ...

Emmanuel Macron comfortably defeated far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election, winning 58.55% of the votes against 41.45% for Le Pen, final interior ministry figures ...

Russian forces attempted to storm the Ukrainian-held Azovstal steel plant in the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments last ...

Last Sunday Vladimir Soloviev, the anchor of Russia’s most popular current affairs show, Sunday Evening, was delivering his usual ‘all is going splendidly’ take on the war in Ukraine ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that light would defeat darkness and Kyiv would triumph over Russia as Ukrainians marked a bitterly emotional Orthodox Easter overshadowed by the grinding two-month-old ...

Accumulating huge amounts of idle cash By Les Manison In response to the financial crisis of 2012/13 the government in agreement with the troika of international institutional institutions took measures to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he discussed with Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan the need for the immediate evacuation of civilians from the mostly Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol. ...