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The value of Portuguese homes that changed hands in the third quarter rose 28 per cent to a record 9.05 billion euros ($1.04 billion), potentially aggravating a shortage of affordable housing, as interest ...

Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and ...

Toyota Motor’s (7203.T) global production decreased for a 10th straight month in November, the Japanese carmaker said, although its worldwide sales grew for the second consecutive month on solid ...

New Nike (NKE.N) CEO Elliott Hill’s plan to refocus on sports that are core to its brand like basketball and running allayed some investor worries on December 20, but ...

The Cyprus problem in 2024 started with a bang or two, then a whimper, then another bang and wimped out again by December, mid-year coming as it did on the 50th ...

Liverpool thrashed West Ham United 5-0 at the London Stadium to stretch their Premier League lead to eight points on Sunday with Mohamed Salah once again in irrepressible form. Salah ...

To call it a milepost year in anti-free speech might be taking it too far, but definitely 2024 had its fair share of such troubling incidents. But the more precedents are ...

US billionaire Elon Musk drew criticism from German politicians from the government and opposition on Sunday for an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) which ...

Thirty-five years ago, I was strapped into a parachute and yanked skywards by a speedboat. After the initial shock, I was floating in nothingness, a complete and total silence, viewing ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Sunday said it was “deeply saddened” by the aeroplane crash which occurred in South Korea earlier in the day and killed almost 180 people. It offered its “...

The Ierokipia municipality on Sunday announced it is taking legal action against the Paphos district government and the consortium which operates the Paphos water treatment plant, near the village of ...

The most thrilling music from renowned, award-winning films is coming to theatres all over Cyprus soon, brought to life by the famous Ukrainian symphony orchestra, the Lords of The Sound. ...

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by shooting from the ground in Russia, and he said ...

Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion (€13.4bn) regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country. The ...

Croats are voting to elect a new president on Sunday in a race that incumbent President Zoran Milanovic is leading in the polls. Around 3.8 million Croats are eligible to cast ...

Paphos on Saturday night hosted a Christmas classic car parade, with cars making their way from the town hall square around the local streets. The municipality said the parade “filled ...

Last month, we threw away more than 18 gigawatt hours of solar power – enough to power the average Cypriot household for nearly 2,000 years. This process, referred to as ‘curtailment’, is where ...

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday, the first time he ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said some of his fiercest critics “have never accepted the Cypriot people’s verdict in the 2023 presidential elections”. Speaking to newspaper Phileleftheros, he said his ...

I wrote a number of stories in 2024 that meant a lot to me (the one about the growing use of antidepressants was an eye-opener). In the end, though, the one ...

By Mark Bendeich Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the ...

Renovation work at the village square in the Kyrenia district village of Bellapais will be completed by the end of January, Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul said on Sunday. ...

Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of 62-year-old Vitaly Shostak in his apartment in Limassol are continuing on Sunday, the police said. Shostak died after being stabbed once in ...