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Larnaca police on Sunday afternoon arrested a man in connection with traffic offences while family members attacked a police officer. According to a police statement, officers signaled for a driver ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will meet today the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cyprus, Jane Holl Lute in the context of preparations for an informal 5+1 meeting on the Cyprus issue. ...

Amidst a lockdown which started early on Sunday morning police carried out a record of 10,092 checks for violations of coronavirus measures in the past 24 hours. Officers mostly checked if people ...

Indonesia’s poor air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after take-off on Saturday, marking the ...

Credit rating agency Moody’s on Monday warned that Cyprus faces the danger of ‘fiscal deterioration in a note released on Monday. In a scenario where the recovery stalls or ...

Congressional Democrats on Monday begin their drive to force President Donald Trump from office, kicking off a week of legislative action that could end with a vote that would make ...

Bahrain will open its airspace to Qatar as of January 11, the country’s civil aviation affairs authority said on Sunday, following a US-backed deal by Arab states last week to ...

Israel’s coronavirus vaccination campaign, the world’s fastest per capita, shifted to booster shots on Sunday in a bid to protect the most vulnerable citizens by next month and ...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince unveiled plans on Sunday to build a zero-car. zero-carbon city at NEOM, the first major construction project for the $500 billion flagship business zone aimed at ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will on Monday morning meet the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cyprus, Jane Holl Lute to discuss preparations for an informal five-party meeting on the Cyprus ...

Premier League Leeds United suffered one of the FA Cup’s biggest shocks with a 3-0 defeat by fourth-tier Crawley Town in the third round on Sunday. Leeds’ Argentine manager ...

Peyia is mulling what steps to take after losing a court case to block the development of a hillside above the Paphos town. The local municipality had challenged the government’...

Greeks headed to beaches and public parks on Sunday as a rare January heat wave offered a respite from the coronavirus lockdown that has thrown life across Europe into disarray. ...

The health ministry announced one death and 339 new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19 on Sunday from both PCR and rapid testing totalling 8,778. The death concerned a 75-year-old man ...

British car company bosses were handed a generous gift on Christmas Eve in the form of the announcement that Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union included ...

The health ministry has announced the following sites for rapid testing on Monday. District Sampling points Hours Limassol Lidl Supermarket Parking, Limassol (45 Franklin Roosevelt Street) 8.30am-4.30pm Parking at “Sigma” ...

Federal agents arrested two more people who entered Capitol Hill whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker’s lectern and another who wore horns and ...

The mass media will ensure the talks fail A modern society without mass communications is inconceivable. Television, newspapers, radio and the internet are the main sources of information the world ...

Another 3,960 Covid vaccination appointments will be available through the government portal to people over 80 from Monday, the health ministry has announced. People who qualify will be able to arrange their ...

Bordeaux is a town best known as France’s wine headquarters. Yet over the past decade, this wonderful old metropolis – ten times smaller than Paris – has been enjoying a new ...

‘Lockdown losses have cost Lebanon 20 per cent of its current GDP’ Lebanon has just entered its fourth Covid-19 lockdown since the pandemic began. Skyrocketing numbers have forced the Lebanese government ...

A 32-year-old man has been arrested for driving 200 km per hour on the Nicosia – Larnaca highway on Sunday morning, police said. The driver was caught at around 10.40am. Investigations revealed ...

Hellenic Bank said on Sunday it was ready to implement the latest Covid decree and was reducing the number of staff who would be working at its branches. The bank ...

Akel, through it’s Nicosia-Kyrenia Secretary Christos Christofides, on Sunday slammed President Nicos Anastasiades for saying in a Politis interview that the government had successfully managed the second wave of ...