14+ hour, 1+ min ago  (211+ words) Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire beginning at 4 p. m. local time on Friday, a senior US official told Reuters, after a sharp escalation of hostilities in Lebanon threatened to unravel the wider US-Iran interim agreement signed earlier this week....

16+ hour, 8+ min ago  (256+ words) AKEL and Volt have called a joint protest outside the Law Office in Nicosia on Monday June 22 at 18: 30, following the publication of the Independent Authority against Corruption's report on the Mafia State investigation. In a joint announcement, the two parties…...

16+ hour, 25+ min ago  (416+ words) The father who rushed to help two women drowning off the Oroklini coast has described his rescue attempts to philenews, saying the absence of a lifeguard at the beach cost the women their lives. Antonis Gavalas was on an inflatable…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (152+ words) Nicosia Municipal Theatre, at the centre of the city's cultural activity, is launching a new series of free-entry events titled "On the Side, taking place on the last Sunday of each month from 28 June until the end of August. The…...

21+ hour, 22+ min ago  (187+ words) A car parked in a makeshift shed adjoining a four-storey building in the Agioi Omologites area of Nicosia caught fire in the early hours of Friday, causing extensive damage to neighbouring premises, a ground-floor gym and nearby shops. The car,…...

17+ hour, 47+ min ago  (105+ words) The Nicosia-Larnaca motorway has reopened and traffic is flowing normally after a fire that broke out on Friday morning forced the closure of both lanes past the Koshi area. Police said in an updated statement that the motorway has been…...

20+ hour, 46+ min ago  (327+ words) EU leaders and institutions gave a positive assessment of the Cyprus EU Council Presidency at the final European Council session held under its chairmanship, according to sources close to the summit who spoke to philenews. President Nikos Christodoulides presented the…...

18+ hour, 6+ min ago  (210+ words) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 19: 1937 " The Scottish dramatist and novelist J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, died. 1953 " Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair for spying for the Soviet Union; they…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago  (289+ words) Planned talks between US and Iranian negotiators in Switzerland will not go ahead on Friday, and Vice President JD Vance has abandoned plans to travel there, Switzerland confirmed, fuelling uncertainty over whether a lasting truce can be secured. "The logistics…...

19+ hour, 53+ min ago  (392+ words) Former president Nicos Anastasiades and the former head of the Unit for Combating Money Laundering (MOKAS) have both gone public with rejections of findings against them in the Anti-Corruption Authority's report on the Mafia State investigation, as the report's submission…...