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Kabul’s streets were deserted early on Monday, a day after Taliban insurgents took over the Afghanistan capital without a fight, but the airport was jammed with hundreds of civilians ...

British employers plan to increase staff numbers by the most in more than eight years over the coming months and few intend to make staff redundant when government furlough support ...

Sterling steadied against the dollar on Friday as the greenback weakened following a weak reading of consumer sentiment, but the British currency was still on track for a second week ...

Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has breached new highs, building on the record-breaking dealmaking streak from the beginning of the year that has been aided by low ...

Former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier last week called for a five-year moratorium on all immigration into the EU — a move that would effectively ban British settlement and all others, ...

Three scenarios are being considered in the diplomatic arena with the aim of resuming Cyprus talks, according to latest reports and speculation ahead of the UN General Assembly in New ...

Son Heung-min proved there is life at Tottenham Hotspur without Harry Kane as his goal earned the north London club a surprise 1-0 win over champions Manchester City in an ...

Former West Germany striker Gerd Muller, one of the game’s greatest goalscorers who was nicknamed ‘Bomber der Nation’, has died at the age of 75, his former club Bayern Munich ...

A Russian woman who fell in love with Cyprus has written a book about mountainous Platres, exploring the history of the village of kings and poets. It is no surprise ...

The health ministry announced there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 but said 165 people tested positive from 14,008 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.18 per cent. The death ...

There are 150 new coal-fired plants under construction or already approved and funded in the world, so you can’t really say that we are taking global warming seriously yet. But ...

The Larnaca building is covered inside and out with eye-catching artwork Cyprus’ first graffiti hotel has become a reference point in Larnaca, an Instagrammable hub and a permanent exhibition showcasing ...

NATO is maintaining its diplomatic presence in Kabul and helping to keep the city’s airport running, a NATO official told Reuters on Sunday as Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis Turkey is an energy hungry economy. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessment of Turkey’s energy needs in 2020, the country currently imports approximately 72 per ...

The met office issued a new yellow alert valid from 9pm on Sunday to 4pm on Monday. Forecasters said temperatures would not fall below 26C inland and 27C on the ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban entered the capital Kabul on Sunday and Western-backed President Ashraf Ghani left the country, with the insurgents saying they were seeking complete power. Two officials from the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Sunday that it was not in the interests of the United States to remain in Afghanistan, as Taliban insurgents entered ...

Thai police clashed with protesters near the residence of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Sunday for a fifth time in the past week, with officers using water cannon and teargas ...

Defence ministry wants to offload old ones and buy new fleet The defence ministry has neither confirmed nor denied reports that Cyprus will replace its ageing fleet of Russian-made Mi-35...

An elderly man in Paphos was fined 11,126 euros on Sunday for hunting during the closed season, and for poaching. According to police, the man was seen leaving his house in ...

Two special constables in Paphos have been arrested, one for allegedly making threats against the city’s police chief on social media. According to police, the first suspect aged 41 is ...

A cruise ship, the Portuguese-flagged ‘World Navigator’, anchored on Sunday off Paphos for a short stopover. According to the port police, it arrived from Heraklion, Crete and carries 115 crew and 78 ...

All the talk of tackling corruption in the lead up to May’s election has fallen silent The issue of corruption dominated the political scene during the long parliamentary pre-election ...

In early July, as Taliban insurgents were seizing territory from government forces across Afghanistan, fighters from the group walked into the offices of Azizi Bank in the southern city of ...