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Ever since the establishment of the Immovable Properties Commission (IPC) in the Turkish-occupied north in 2005, by decision of the European Court of Human Rights, Greek Cypriots have been discouraged from ...

Ukrainian lawmakers appointed Yevhenii Khmara as the country’s new defence minister on Wednesday, hours after his predecessor, Mykhailo Fedorov, called for elections during wartime, delivering a fresh political challenge ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou is reportedly “furious” over remarks made by predecessor, Averof Neophytou, accusing the party of responsibility for past failures on the Cyprus problem. According to Phileleftheros, the ...

At least 100 people have been killed in a landslide at a makeshift gold mine in the Central African Republic, according to local sources on Wednesday. The collapse occurred on Tuesday ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday condemned remarks by far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir calling for Israel to kill “30 or 40” people “every night in Gaza” as “inhumane and ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Equality (Isotita) trade unionist Giorgos Maltezos to register a private criminal indictment against five state officials over alleged violations of protections ...

srael’s military will open internal investigations over its troops’ high-profile killings in Gaza of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it ...

Turkey is ready to work with Damascus to look for oil and gas in Syria, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday. Turkish state oil company TPAO and private ...

An Israeli airstrike killed nine Palestinians at a police station in Gaza on Wednesday, medics said, two days after US envoy Jared Kushner ended a trip to the region that ...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, and said the Asian nation held 57 “very powerful” nuclear ...

Serbian music company EXIT has withdrawn from the planned Nexus electronic music festival at Kyrenia Castle, Elam MEP Geadis Geadi said on Wednesday, following diplomatic and political pressure over the ...

The Turkish government and the Turkish Cypriot authorities on Wednesday described what was described as an “additional protocol” deal, which aims to iron out creases in the initial deal signed ...

A 51-year-old British national from Northern Ireland accused of secretly filming a young man in a toilet at Larnaca airport while returning from a family holiday in Cyprus appeared before ...

August marks the season for arkatenos, a traditional soughdough bread made from fermented chickpeas, to be baked mostly in Paphos and Limassol, scholar Anna Tselepou said on Wednesday. Tselepou added ...

Cyprus and France strengthened their search and rescue cooperation through a joint maritime exercise held on Wednesday. The exercise, CYFRA 04/26, was coordinated by the search and rescue coordination centre and ...

Larnaca is about to dance to the sounds of jazz as the Larnaka Jazz Festival returns for the fourth consecutive year. After three successful previous editions, this event has now ...

Today marks 52 years since US ambassador Rodger Davies was assassinated inside the American embassy in Nicosia on Wednesday, August 19, 1974, during a violent anti-American demonstration held days after Turkey’s second ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s undersecretary Mehmet Dana’s briefing to diplomats went ahead at the Home for Cooperation on Wednesday morning, with Erhurman himself at the same time ...

Every single one of the Republic of Cyprus’ 123,000 pensioners will receive an increase in the amount paid to them as a result of the government’s planned pension reforms, Labour ...

Cyprus Airways will expand its year-round network from Larnaca with new direct services to Rome and Munich from December, while also increasing its weekly flights to Heraklion from late October, ...

Bathers set up umbrellas and tents on Lara beach on Wednesday despite restrictions designed to protect nesting sea turtles. The beach falls within the Lara-Toxeftra protected area, where temporary structures ...

More national football federations and Fifa officials have withdrawn their support for the soccer body’s president Gianni Infantino after the exit of Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour, which one ...

Ukrainian lawmakers appointed a new defence minister on Wednesday, hours after his ousted predecessor dealt a major blow to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a call for elections in wartime. Yevhenii ...

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war each, officials from both sides said on Wednesday, with Ukrainian intelligence saying another swap was expected before the end of the month. ...