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Campaigning for the parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday draws to a close on Friday night as government officials hand over the ballot boxes and 600,000 ballots to officers in ...

Police arrested a 20-year-old early on Friday for speeding on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway. The man was caught driving at 200km per hour, in an area where 100km per hour is ...

The United States told Russia on Thursday it will not rejoin the Open Skies arms control pact, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, a U.S. official said. ...

Police fined 20 people after 4,234 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Friday. Between 6am on Thursday and 6am on Friday, police fined ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation late Thursday with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on China-UK relations. Noting that China-UK relations have a deep ...

Facebook Inc is no longer removing posts that claim the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was man-made amid renewed debate over its origins. “In light of ongoing investigations into the origin ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which ...

California will offer $116.5 million in cash and gift cards to residents who get Covid-19 vaccinations before June 15, the latest – and most lucrative – incentive by US states desperate to persuade laggards ...

Tunisian politicians and officials warn of an economic collapse if the government cannot agree a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan this summer, but political paralysis could scotch that effort. ...

Cyprus Small- to Medium-sized businesses must undergo a transformation in order to survive – they need to jettison past ways of doing business and adopt those that are right for today. ...

Turkey will extract oil from three newly discovered wells in the country’s Diyarbakir and Kirklareli provinces, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Thursday. “We have also found oil ...

Turkish Cypriot Ersin Tatar has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General laying out his side’s approach to the Cyprus issue and how he sees the process going ...

Although the government took away our liberties in a big rush, supposedly to protect public health, it is restoring these in instalments for no apparent reason. Is it afraid people ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced 75 new positives for coronavirus, for a positivity rate of 0.17 per cent, while the number of the hospitalised continue to drop. No new deaths occurred, ...

Turkey pushed Nato allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two ...

Paphos municipality has awarded a grant of €8,000 to a doctoral student of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus, it announced on Thursday. Maria Ktoris received ...

Tents have replaced some high-rises in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, where heavy Israeli air strikes left several families homeless and doubtful that rebuilding will start soon. Palestinians ...

The head of a Japanese doctors’ union said on Thursday that holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, with tens of thousands of people from around the world, could ...

By all accounts Bennifer – aka Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck – have rekindled their flame after having come close to wedding in the early Noughties. The Hollywood actors are apparently dating, ...

The outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 has been disastrous for the cruising industry and global tourism, with uncertainty still plaguing the fate of its main players even as we head into ...

The vaccination portal will reopen on Friday for 36–39-year-olds, the health ministry said on Thursday, announcing that almost 51 per cent of the population has received a jab. Members of the ...

The health ministry announced a total of 71 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Here to make the warm nights in the city more fun, a series of outdoor summer cinema evenings return! Film screenings under the night sky are back at two venues, ...