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Trade unions and political parties in the north have reacted with fury after the Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes) sent a six-page report to Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz demanding ...

Teachers’ trade unions are to study the government’s proposal for a new system of evaluating teachers, they said on Saturday. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou had unveiled the proposal on ...

Hosting this year’s Eurobasket is an “investment in Cypriot sport”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, Speaking to Greek sports website Sport24, he spoke of his love for basketball and the ...

Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct US intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing reconstruction funds following ...

Premier League champions Manchester City survived a huge FA Cup fourth-round scare as Kevin De Bruyne came off the bench to secure a 2-1 victory at third-tier Leyton Orient on ...

The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia’s power grid on Saturday, the region’s operators said, part of a plan designed to integrate the countries more ...

American-funded aid efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, as well as preventing newborn baby deaths and treating severe malnutrition, should resume, according to a memo from the United States ...

A federal judge early Saturday temporarily blocked a Trump administration panel led by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments, citing a ...

A phone alarm pings, and Adonis Florides gets up. Excuse me, he says briskly, there’s “something I have to do”. I wonder if he needs to take some pill ...

A group of investors are looking to create a basketball league that will span Asia and Europe to one day rival the NBA, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “intensifying pressure” on Turkey on the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons, the government’s humanitarian affairs director Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose gaunt appearance shocked Israelis, while Israel began freeing dozens of Palestinians in the latest stage of a ceasefire ...

The police on Saturday said they are investigating what they believe to be an attempted murder carried out in the Limassol district village of Souni the previous day. The incident ...

Donald Trump on Sunday will become the first sitting US president to attend a Super Bowl – but the former reality television star has a long and complicated history with the ...

Manchester United clawed back from a goal down to beat Leicester City in a 2-1 fourth-round FA Cup victory on Friday at Old Trafford, thanks to a last-gasp controversial header ...

Two alpine ski athletes are in Bakuriani in Georgia to compete for Cyprus in the 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOF), between February 9 and 16. The main events of the 17th ...

Fish Soup with Egg and Lemon Broth I just love this comforting soup, which is one of the first things I learned to cook when I was about 12 or 13 years ...

Argentina’s award-winning mare Polo Pureza will have her genes, or at least most of them, live on in five genetically edited horses designed to outrun the polo legend herself. ...

“Musical composition in Cyprus is thriving,” says the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in anticipation of an upcoming concert, “thanks to a bursting array of Cypriot composers bringing a fresh, imaginative perspective ...

Maha Nassar President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is ...

The chance of a major earthquake hitting in the Aegean sea at present is “remote”, professor Emmanuel Scordilis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki said on Saturday. Speaking to the ...

By Michelle Spear When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin – and even the whites of ...

Cyprus’ mountain roads were reopened to all traffic on Saturday afternoon. The police said the roads are open to all vehicles, “but slippery”, and that as such, “drivers are urged ...

The police believe there was “malicious intent” behind a fire which broke out in a high school in Limassol shortly after midnight on Saturday. The fire broke out in a ...