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Iran has granted permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz following repeated requests from Baghdad through various channels, Iran’s state news ...

For 17 years, Bennett Graebner’s job depended on getting strangers to tell him the truth. That sounds easier than it actually is. People walked into casting rooms armed with stories ...

The route between Jeddah and Riyadh is one of the busiest domestic corridors in Saudi Arabia, connecting the Kingdom’s commercial hub on the Red Sea coast with its capital ...

The presidential palace on Saturday acclaimed the current level of cooperation between the governments of Cyprus and Greece, saying that the holding of regular intergovernmental summits between the two countries ...

Israel’s foreign ministry has defended the country’s decision to close the investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from Cyprus to ...

Driven by escalating sovereign debt, domestic fiscal constraints, and a strategic pivot toward peer competition in East Asia, the United States has transitioned to an offshore balancing posture across the ...

Something special arrives on the last weekend of every month in the capital as the Nicosia Municipal Theatre presents diverse events. In this new series, which launched this June and ...

The internationally unrecognised ‘Republic of Somaliland’ has called on both Cyprus and Greece to consider recognising it, after the new parliament speaker of Somalia, the country from which it has ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies in Cyprus and Syria as a “groundless rant” ...

Five years after Floridia registered Europe’s highest-ever temperature, residents say extreme heat is no longer measured by records but by its impact on daily life, keeping people indoors, reducing ...

Saturday’s weather will be hot and sunny all day, with temperatures set to rise to 39 degrees Celsius inland, 31 degrees Celsius on the west coast, 34 degrees Celsius on the rest ...

Cyprus must look beyond the immediate public cost of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) and consider whether the project can transform the country from an electrically isolated island into an ...

The way euro area banks fund themselves can significantly affect how quickly and fully changes in ECB interest rates reach businesses and households, according to a recent working paper by ...

The United States and Canada failed to reach a trade deal late on Friday, and the U.S. said it would impose 50% tariffs on some imports from Canada, an escalation ...

Global wearable band shipments fell 2 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2026, but the overall decline concealed a widening divide in consumer preferences, according to the latest ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Union’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, this week launched a consultation on new annual reporting rules aimed at giving regulators ...

Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul on Friday warned that political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to “...

A pressure group calling itself the Joint Platform for the Revitalisation of the Urban Commercial Core of Every City, has been demanding the re-opening of the lower part of Makarios ...

Arsenal started their Premier League title defence with a bang by sweeping aside newly-promoted Coventry City with a dominant performance in a 3-0 home win on Friday. The last time ...

Five people who the US attempted to deport to Liberia this week resisted getting off the plane and were instead transported to Equatorial Guinea, another African country to which the ...

Four-year-old Marios, who had suffered brain damage on July 14 due to meningitis, died in Makarios hospital on Friday. The boy’s death was announced by Kourion municipality in a post ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to continue construction of his White House ballroom project for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that would ...

An informal poll on Friday placed Guyana’s Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett narrowly ahead in the contest to become the next UN Secretary-General, diplomats and other sources close to the process ...

At least 14 people were killed and more than 120 wounded on Friday when two Russian drones struck a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, authorities said. Twenty-two ...