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Another candidacy for the 2023 presidential elections was announced on Friday, bringing the total of number of candidates standing, so far, to six. If there are more than six, we apologise ...

Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over shaky talks to end a war now in its third month as Russia pounded areas in the east of the country and U.S. ...

The leader of Socialist Edek party, Marinos Sizopoulos, late on Friday announced the convening of the party’s Pancyprian Congress on Saturday at 5 pm. He also announced the holding of ...

Turkey condemned Germany’s summoning of its ambassador on Friday and called in Berlin’s ambassador to Ankara in a tit-for-tat move amid a row over the jailing of a ...

Russia made what appeared to be a late U-turn to avoid a default on Friday, as it made a number of already-overdue international debt payments in dollars despite previously vowing ...

Google results for Cyprus in the past few months topped the number of searches for the island in 2019, a record year for Cypriot visitors, deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios ...

A US judge on Friday imposed a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an Islamic State militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages, at a hearing where ...

The Oklahoma legislature on Thursday approved two bills that would ban virtually all abortions, and both Republican-composed laws would take effect immediately if the governor signs them as he has ...

By Gabriela Baczynska The director of the European Union’s border agency has quit his job, the agency said on Friday, after years of accusations that the body mistreated migrants ...

Cyprus recorded the third highest increase in domestic electricity bills, as prices rose by 36 percent in the second half of 2021 compared to last year, according to data released by Eurostat, ...

Photography fans get ready for a unique exhibition this May, two actually, as the international photography platform GuruShort returns with a double exhibition in Limassol. 6×6 Centre for Photography is to ...

The British Virgin Islands should have its constitution suspended, elected government dissolved and effectively be returned to direct rule from London, a highly critical inquiry into governance in the British ...

German tennis great Boris Becker was jailed by a London court on Friday for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he was declared bankrupt. Becker was convicted ...

Authorities are working on amending the procedures followed for unaccompanied minors as police said Friday there were 14 unaccompanied children who continue to be missing after leaving from reception centres and ...

The finance ministry on Friday responded to accusations of procedural failings and weaknesses when it comes to complying with legal and regulatory provisions regarding payments, which included the purchase of ...

Ukraine, backed by dozens of other countries, has written to the World Health Organization’s regional chief calling for an urgent meeting on the impact of Russia’s invasion on ...

Cyprus’ fiscal accounts in the last quarter of 2021 generated a surplus of €37.7 million compared with a deficit of €648 million in the respective period of 2020. According to preliminary data released on ...

Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heave wave on Friday ...

Israel’s actions are creating conditions for its own destruction, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander on Friday told a Jerusalem Day rally at which the country’s new domestically-made Kheibar ...

The interior ministry held a consultation on Friday with the union of municipalities to try and untangle the local government reform package. After about a decade of haggling, parliament on ...

Police investigations into the fallout from the investment for passport scheme are at an advanced stage, top members of a four-hour meeting of the key overseers heard on Friday. There ...

Twitter buyer Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, but that could be put to the test in the Middle East where critics say authoritarian governments use the platform ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides commemorated the fallen soldiers and those currently serving in the army as he marked Saint George’s day on Friday. In his speech at Lieutenant General ...

As Germany speeds up investment in renewables, the energy consumption of its carmakers reveals just how reliant the country’s most important industry is on fossil fuels, a Reuters analysis ...