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President Nicos Christodoulides has made it the style of his presidency to take an interest in most things that are in the news. The way this interest is shown is ...

Argentina’s central bank board said it agreed to hike the country’s benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 78% on Thursday after annual inflation hit 100% for the first time ...

Greater quantities of synthetic opioid fentanyl directly enter the United States and Canada than Mexico, Mexico’s president said on Thursday, pushing back against U.S. criticism of his record ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation that bars all semi-governmental bodies from paying into private health insurance, since employees in these organisations already benefit from the national health system or ...

The U.S. banking system remains sound and Americans can feel confident that their deposits are safe, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday, but she denied that emergency actions ...

The United Nations backed Turkey and Ukraine on Thursday by calling for a 120-day rollover of an agreement allowing the safe export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports ...

Manchester United cruised into the Europa League quarter-finals as Marcus Rashford’s second-half goal secured a 1-0 win at Real Betis in the last-16 second leg on Thursday to wrap ...

Legislators on Thursday hectored the government for taking its time delivering legislation to tighten up the earthquake-proofing of buildings, saying that lives are at stake – while the interior ministry responded ...

Montenegro’s President Milo Djukanovic on Thursday issued a decree dissolving the parliament, paving the way for a new parliamentary election in the Adriatic country months after he refused to ...

A Larnaca court on Thursday began extradition hearings in the case of a Kurdish national wanted by German authorities on charges of participating in a terrorist organisation. The suspect, Kenas ...

Whether you find yourself in Limassol, Nicosia or Paphos this weekend, the island’s bar and live music venues have got something planned. Here is an overview of where to ...

Lawmakers on Thursday said they will seek higher state subsidies for assisted reproduction, in a bid to encourage this form of gestation, as one in six couples were said to ...

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne used a special procedure to push an unpopular pensions bill through the National Assembly without a vote on Thursday, amid shouts from left-wing lawmakers brandishing ...

The appointment of one of Cyprus’ most famous pop singers, Michalis Hadjiyiannis, as deputy culture minister was criticised on Thursday by the Pancyprian professional artists union (Pasynek). The union said ...

Cyprus has submitted five new nominations to the Unesco list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to an announcement of the Cypriot national committee of Unesco after a meeting that took ...

Russia has committed wide-ranging war crimes in Ukraine such as wilful killings, torture and the deportation of children, a U.N.-mandated investigative body said in a report published on ...

Fears of a recession are growing on Wall Street, as stress in the banking sector following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and worries over the fate of Credit Suisse ...

Healthcare workers in England and the British government have reached an agreement on pay, the i newspaper reported on Thursday, in what would be a breakthrough following months of strikes ...

Three people were arrested on Thursday afternoon after it emerged that they owned around 300,000 illegal firecrackers, stored in a cargo container located in a Limassol warehouse. The operation, which was ...

England called up Brentford striker Ivan Toney but kept faith with most of their World Cup quarter-finalists on Thursday as head coach Gareth Southgate named his squad for next week’...

Capsized in a river in southern Iraq, the rusting wreck of a yacht that belonged to Saddam Hussein serves as a stark reminder of his iron-fisted rule that ended with ...

Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Thursday and rallied in central Athens in protest at neglected safety standards they say led to the deadliest train crash in ...

Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move that follows other Western countries who have barred the Chinese-owned video app over security ...

The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points on Thursday as promised, ignoring financial market chaos and calls by investors to dial back policy tightening at least until ...