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Israeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza on Wednesday after incendiary balloons were launched from the Palestinian enclave in the first such attacks since the end of 11 days of cross-border ...

When Ethiopia awarded its first private telecom licence last week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hailed it as the crowning achievement of his plan to open up Ethiopia’s tightly controlled ...

A digital euro could suck away 8 per cent of euro zone banks’ customer deposits, analysts at Morgan Stanley have estimated, although the share may be far higher in some of ...

Researchers are conducting phase-1 and phase-2 clinical trials on a China-made inhaled Covid-19 vaccine, a Chinese health official said Friday. After completing the collection of clinical-trial data, experts will study ...

Turkey has just discovered another 135 billion cubic meters (bcm) natural gas in what is proving to be a prolific Sakarya gasfield in the Black Sea, raising the total discovered so ...

Inspired by World Oceans Day last week, European Maritime Days coming up and a recent workshop, Martin Clark highlights the importance of sea grass, more grandly known as Posidonia oceanica ...

In the end, President Anastasiades’ initiative to set up a government of broader acceptance proved a non-starter. With the exception of the Disy chief the other six leaders he met ...

Title favourites France launched their Euro 2020 Group F campaign with a 1-0 victory over Germany on Tuesday, courtesy of an own goal by Mats Hummels, as the sluggish-looking hosts lost ...

Former President Donald Trump pressed the Justice Department during his waning weeks in office to join his failed effort to overturn his election defeat based on his false claims of ...

The Audit Office has flagged a series of dodgy financial practices at the foreign ministry, among others homing in on one particular employee who showed up for work for about ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson would send 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the country by the end of the month, making up for ...

Cristiano Ronaldo struck a late double to help holders Portugal get off to a winning start with a 3-0 victory over Hungary in front of a 67,000 crowd on Tuesday as ...

No new deaths from coronavirus were announced on Tuesday while 64 new cases were recorded. The cases were found from 35,729 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.18 per cent. Meanwhile ...

Doesn’t a book bazaar for a good cause sound like a good idea? That is what is coming up at Yfantourgeio in July as it teams up with animal ...

Nicosia on Tuesday said that for the moment it does not appear Turkey has shifted course on the Cyprus issue, making a second informal meeting focused on the island unlikely, ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday delayed by a month his plans to lift the last COVID-19 restrictions in England after modelling showed that thousands more people might die ...

Kapnos, which resumed its shuttle service to Larnaca and Paphos airports on June 1, on Tuesday unveiled a new, upgraded electronic reservation system to facilitate bookings. At the same event Transport ...

Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants could face more scrutiny and potential sanctions in the European Union after the bloc’s top court backed national privacy watchdogs to pursue them, ...

Parliament needs to approve some 20 reform bills and regulations by the end of the year as a precondition for the dispersal of €1.2bn in EU funds, according to a memo ...

Fresh concerns have arisen over the Delta variant and a possible fourth wave, as a former government adviser warned that variants risk being brought in from the UK. Professor Leontios ...

The theft of 44 catalytic converters worth a combined value of €5,000 from a warehouse in Paphos is under investigation by the Paphos CID, the police said on Tuesday. A 50-year-old man ...

A fire that broke out in Kelokedara in the Paphos district at around 2.20pm on Tuesday has been brought under control, according to fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis. A total ...

The House selection committee has failed to agree on the composition of the 16 parliamentary committees and the issue has now been referred to party leaders who will meet on Thursday, ...

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