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An excavator suffered “extensive damage” after a fire broke out in Larnaca on Thursday evening, the fire brigade said on Friday, adding that two warehouses containing animal feed were also “...

Friday is expected to begin with largely clear skies across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather in the afternoon. Temperatures are expected to rise to 30 degrees ...

The US will livestream the Army’s upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would ...

Schools in several Malaysian states as well as its federal and administrative capitals will be closed on Friday, the education ministry said, after smoky haze caused by forest fires in ...

Andy Burnham’s Labour Party won an election for the parliamentary seat vacated by former leader Keir Starmer on Friday, fending off a strong challenge from the left-wing Green Party ...

Renting a two-bedroom flat in Limassol can swallow as much as 91 per cent of an average salary, emphasising the growing cost of housing in Cyprus and the widening gap with ...

Eurobank has reaffirmed its support for young entrepreneurs and innovation in Cyprus, backing the annual youth entrepreneurship awards organised by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve). The bank ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) has taken action against seven companies listed on its Emerging Companies Market after they failed to submit and publish their half-yearly financial reports by the ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) has announced that a new cycle of free training for beekeepers in Cyprus will begin on October 17, 2026, under the European Union-funded PLANBEE ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiots on Thursday said that he is hoping for “tangible steps” to be made “in the immediate future” on the Cyprus problem, with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan ...

In Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a judge used an unconventional method to decide who the true mother of a boy, whom two women claimed to be ...

The Turkish Cypriots will hold legislative elections on December 6, with a bill setting out the timetable for the elections passing through the legislature on Thursday night. As such, legislative and ...

Anti-migrant protests in two South African cities including Johannesburg’s Soweto township turned violent on Thursday, with the government blaming disinformation over a court ruling on asylum seekers. In coastal ...

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet Ukrainian representatives on Friday in Miami to discuss new ideas and proposals for addressing the war in Ukraine, an American source ...

British police on Thursday said that search warrants they secured to search properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been issued unlawfully and must be quashed, but said the investigation into ...

Police on Thursday placed under arrest a 30-year-old man in connection with the firing of a shot in the centre of Paphos. The suspect, escorted by an attorney, reportedly turned ...

South Korea will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, the foreign minister said on Thursday, following a dispute over President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s announcement that two North Korean prisoners of war ...

Hundreds of teachers from public schools demonstrated at the presidential palace on Thursday afternoon, voicing opposition to a proposed change in the appointments system that they fear will leave many ...

One of the two bodies recovered on Wednesday from the seas surrounding the wreckage of a ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia in August was on Thursday identified ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US will not launch an attack on Iran before November’s US midterm congressional elections, asserting that the two countries are having “...

Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas on Thursday struck a buoyant note over ongoing talks on pension reform, but trade unions reiterated that their key concerns have not been allayed. The minister ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Thursday praised as “wise” and “responsible” his successor Annita Demetriou’s decision to withdraw her candidacy for the 2028 presidential elections, leaving him and former ...

Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Thursday it could not yet determine whether equipment at a data centre hit by a Ukrainian drone attack could be restored. Yandex ...

Two final performances remain this week as the Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus wraps up its 29th edition at Axiothea Mansion. A festival that began in early summer ...