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A vehicle in fire Strovolos is being investigated by Nicosia police on Friday morning. According to the police, the fire broke out around 2am in a vehicle parked under an ...

Advisers to Donald Trump publicly and privately are floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable future, according ...

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale was recorded overnight by the geological survey department of the Ministry of Agriculture. The earthquake which happened on Thursday night at 10.53pm was ...

Around 400 buildings in Limassol have received warning letters that they need repairs, while 130 have been declared dangerous, it emerged on Friday, hours after parts of a balcony collapsed overnight damaging ...

Shell (SHEL.L) and Norway’s Equinor (EQNR.OL) will merge their British North Sea assets to form the ageing basin’s largest oil and gas company, the pair said ...

Friday will see mainly sunny spells interspersed with periods of high cloud. Temperatures will rise to 20C inland, 22C on the south and east coast, 23C on the north coast, 24...

South Korea’s ruling party leader on Friday said President Yoon Suk Yeol needs to be removed from power for trying to impose martial law, as the government denied reports ...

The turnover index for Cyprus’ industrial sector rose by 1.3 per cent in September 2024, when compared to the same month in 2023, according to the state’s statistical service. Over the first ...

Cyprus has revamped its planning and building permit system, cutting approval times to just 40 working days for small-scale developments, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced this week. The reforms target low-risk “...

British employees whose health deteriorates are four times more likely to drop out of the labour market if they have little or no flexibility over their working conditions, according to ...

New battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales in UK rose 58 per cent in November, marking the eleventh straight month of growth, industry data showed, driven by deep discounts to meet government-mandated ...

Cyprus is among the European countries with the highest consumption of antibiotics and the highest rates of antimicrobial resistance, which caused approximately 700 deaths on the island in 2019 alone. Across the ...

For months now, the House education committee has been debating two bills on higher education, tabled by the government, without reaching agreement. Wednesday’s behind-closed-doors meeting was cut short, because ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister in the coming days whose top priority will be getting a 2025 budget adopted by parliament, he said on Thursday after ...

Transactions of over €10,000 done in liquid assets, such as cash, are now illegal and punishable by fines or even jail time, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. Drafted ...

A large magnitude 7 earthquake hit off a sparsely populated stretch of northern California coast on Thursday, prompting coastal towns to evacuate low-lying areas amid a tsunami warning that was later ...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein will meet his Syrian and Iranian counterparts on Friday to discuss the situation in Syria, the Iraqi state news agency said on Thursday. The Friday ...

Western countries including the United States assailed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the war in Ukraine on Thursday at an annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation ...

Mexico is seeking an agreement with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to ensure Mexico does not receive deportees from third countries in case of large-scale deportations from the United States, ...

The House of Representatives was briefly thrown into disarray on Thursday when it turned out there were not enough MPs present to vote on proposed amendments to the constitution. The ...

In raids across the country, police on Thursday arrested 41 foreign nationals residing here illegally. The persons arrested were of various nationalities, the police said in a statement. The 41 are being ...

Hezbollah has paid out more than $50 million in cash gifts to families affected by war with Israel, its leader Naim Qassem said on Thursday, as the Iran-backed group seeks to ...

Thinker Maker Space of CYENS will host Eating our Heritage this Friday afternoon, a workshop that focuses on decolonial acts that integrate displaced heritage objects back to their land and ...

With sound management of public finances, the economy will continue performing well in the next few years, but despite this there is no room for complacency, the finance minister said ...