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Cyprus’ fiscal accounts in the last quarter of 2021 generated a surplus of €37.7 million compared with a deficit of €648 million in the respective period of 2020. According to preliminary data released on ...

Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heave wave on Friday ...

Israel’s actions are creating conditions for its own destruction, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander on Friday told a Jerusalem Day rally at which the country’s new domestically-made Kheibar ...

The interior ministry held a consultation on Friday with the union of municipalities to try and untangle the local government reform package. After about a decade of haggling, parliament on ...

Police investigations into the fallout from the investment for passport scheme are at an advanced stage, top members of a four-hour meeting of the key overseers heard on Friday. There ...

Twitter buyer Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, but that could be put to the test in the Middle East where critics say authoritarian governments use the platform ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides commemorated the fallen soldiers and those currently serving in the army as he marked Saint George’s day on Friday. In his speech at Lieutenant General ...

As Germany speeds up investment in renewables, the energy consumption of its carmakers reveals just how reliant the country’s most important industry is on fossil fuels, a Reuters analysis ...

Russia’s most senior lawmaker said on Friday that Ukraine was effectively mortgaging itself to the United States by seeking to tap billions of dollars of weapons loans proposed by ...

An upcoming event invites the public to the Cyens Thinker Maker Space in old Nicosia for a talk by its artist in residency Nemo Nonnenmacher. May 5’s talk titled Touch ...

Cyprus and Estonia share a common outlook on many issues, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday continuing his official visit there, where he met Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in Tallinn. “...

Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE) is looking at energy alternatives should Russia cut gas deliveries and is working closely with German authorities to ensure energy supplies, the premium carmaker’s top executive ...

The first ferry link between Cyprus and Greece – specifically, from Limassol to Piraeus – is to be up and running on June 19, it was announced on Friday, with the trip lasting ...

Elon Musk told banks that agreed to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) that he could crack down on executive and board pay at the social ...

An unnamed law firm being investigated as part of the investment for passports scandal has had its request to tackle a police search warrant quashed by the supreme court. According ...

The health ministry will operate 63 free rapid testing units on Saturday for eligible groups. Those entitled to a free rapid test include minors, the fully vaccinated and those who have ...

A kangaroo attacked and injured a 69-year-old woman on a golf course in Australia’s Gold Coast, leaving her with severe cuts and scratches across her body, authorities said on ...

Physics professor and former rector of the University of Cyprus Constantinos Christofides announced on Friday he will run for president in the upcoming 2023 elections, backed by New Wave – The Other ...

Ukraine hopes on Friday to evacuate civilians who are holed up in a vast steel works with the last fighters defending the southern city of Mariupol. “An operation is planned ...

Police arrested a 32-year-old man on Thursday over the possession and distribution of pornographic material involving children. The police, after being tipped and having a warrant issued, searched the suspect’...

British trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said all women working in parliament had been subject to inappropriate touching or sexist language and advised her male colleagues to keep their hands in ...

Two women, aged 21 and 19, were arrested late on Thursday in Larnaca for illegal entry into the government-controlled areas. Police said they found the suspects accompanying a 40-year-old woman with her ...

The labour ministry said on Friday that all general stores should remain closed on Sunday, May 1. The law states, the ministry said, that the shops – such as supermarkets, shopping malls ...

Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka said the Wimbledon ban on players from Russia and her country makes no sense and the former world number one called on the tennis governing bodies to ...