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By Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland The European Union is in a difficult position today. We are still struggling with successive waves of pandemic infections. We have just started ...

The Beau Rivage Hotel in Larnaca has begun to be demolished, a process estimated to take somewhere between two and three months to be completed. As confirmed by NCH Managing ...

Cyprus’ relatively high vaccination coverage and adherence to personal protection measures should help contain any uptick in coronavirus cases this winter, a member of the government’s team of advisors ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...

The U.S. health regulator on Friday authorized the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years, making it the first COVID-19 shot for young children ...

Cypriot authorities have dismissed as illegal gunnery exercises planned for next week by the Turkish navy in waters in the north of the island. Under a Navtex – or marine advisory – ...

In a new twist, a court ruling on Friday paved the way for socialists Edek to finally hold an electoral congress that will decide the party’s new leadership. The ...

New York City officials on Friday were preparing for shortages of firefighters, police officers and other first responders as a showdown looms between the city and its unvaccinated uniformed workforce, ...

Saudi Arabia has summoned its ambassador to Lebanon for consultation and asked the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave within 48 hours, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on ...

Prestigious travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has included Nicosia in the 2022 edition of its annual ‘Best in Travel’ book, which ranks the planet’s must-visit countries, cities and regions. Described ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Friday brushed aside criticism that his office has done nothing in the wake of the Pandora Papers reveals, noting that criminal cases need to be based ...

The live music scene in Paphos is buzzing! And since the summer, local bands, musicians, tribute acts, classical music concerts and all that jazz have been keeping Paphos residents and ...

Authorities on Friday reported no new fatalities from Covid-19, as testing detected 160 positives from 57,738 samples. The death toll since the start of the pandemic remains at 571. Meantime in hospitals 60 people ...

Citing Cyprus’ slide in World Bank metrics on the public’s perception on control of corruption, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides told MPs on Friday that watchdog bodies such as his should ...

Around €70,000 in cash was stolen on Friday afternoon from an apartment in Kato Paphos. According to the police, the robbery occurred at around 3pm when three hooded men barged into ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday that the world was rushing headlong towards climate disaster, and said leaders of the Group of 20 wealthy nations must do more ...

U.S. President Joe Biden held an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday as a debate raged back home about the Catholic president’s support ...

Rain this month was only at 14 per cent of the seasonal levels, with most of it recorded in the past couple of days, according to data from the meteorological department ...

Emma Raducanu has revealed she has presented her US Open trophy to the Lawn Tennis Association as a “little gift” in recognition of their role in her development. The British ...

The island of North Sentinel is off limits. You’re not even allowed near it: the Indian government, which administrates the region, has prohibited all travel within 6 kilometres of the ...

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has backed midfielder Paul Pogba’s decision to publicly denounce a media report as “fake news” and vowed to fight back from the difficult ...

Greece said it would be willing to agree with Turkey on delimiting their respective economic zones at sea, urging its neighbour to tone down what it said were tensions harming ...

A total of 51 free rapid test sites will operate nationwide for eligible groups on Saturday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while ...

A local charity is calling on people to walk or run in the coastal pedestrian road in Protaras this Saturday to support cancer patients and their families. This year’s ...