Archive 2021

Police on Wednesday said they had fined a cafeteria in Nicosia €8,000 for failing to check customers for a SafePass. The violation was identified during 2,975 nationwide checks that also resulted in ...

Cyprus-based troops from the Second Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment have been reflecting on the part they played in the evacuation of more than 12,000 British nationals and entitled Afghans out of ...

The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, released on September 2, 2021, reaffirms the University of Nicosia’s (UNic) global standing, ranking it among the Top 601-800 ...

Popular Cypriot band Monsieur Doumani have released a new album and this autumn they are presenting it to islanders with four upcoming performances. First up is a participation in the ...

Pep Guardiola believes his Manchester City side can draw motivation from last season’s Champions League heartbreak as they begin their latest campaign. The Premier League winners fell just short ...

Authorities were investigating on Wednesday after a car was destroyed in a fire that broke out outside an apartment building in Larnaca. The fire started a few minutes after 2am ...

By Charalambos Theopemptou The EU refers to its ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy as being at the heart of its Green Deal and it aims to achieve a fair, healthy and ...

A 52-year-old man was arrested late on Tuesday in Paphos on suspicion of stealing electronic devices. Acting on a tip-off, police searched a house in Kato Paphos around 5.30pm on ...

US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) said on Tuesday it increased the size of its debt offering to about $2 billion from previously announced $1.5 billion, citing market interest. The ...

Nicosia drug squad arrested two men late on Tuesday in connection with two separate cases of illegal drug possession. The first man, 27, was stopped by members of the drug squad ...

Channel 4, Britain’s publicly owned but commercially funded broadcaster, will be able to access more money to compete with streaming giants Amazon (AMZN.O) and Netflix (NFLX.O) under private ...

A Beijing court late on Tuesday ruled against the plaintiff in a high-profile Chinese sexual harassment case, saying there was insufficient evidence to support her claims, a decision likely to ...

A month after seizing Kabul, the Taliban face daunting problems as they seek to convert their lightning military victory into a durable peacetime government. After four decades of war and ...

North Korea fired a pair of ballistic missiles off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday, days after testing a long-range cruise missile. Pyongyang ...

The ninth edition of the Cyprus Energy Symposium will put the spotlight on all energy-related issues pertaining to Cyprus, a statement by its organisers said. The symposium, which will be ...

From Monday all children were back at school and it took only 24 hours for one of our celebrity epidemiologists to step up the fear-mongering, which had been toned down in ...

New Zealand recently announced it will be opening its borders in early 2022. The mandatory New Zealand visa, the NZeTA, is valid for two years, so you can in theory already ...

CyprusInno has launched a new coworking space called The Base in Nicosia’s Ledra Palace buffer zone. The centre will not be limited to coworking elements as it wil also ...

The U.S. top general secretly called his Chinese counterpart twice last year over concerns then-President Donald Trump could spark a war with China as his potential election loss loomed ...

A fully automated system to come online perhaps by the end of the year will address the problem of the long delays in the processing and disbursement of benefits, Labour ...

Amid complaints from parents, Nicosia and Larnaca bus operator Cyprus Public Transport (CPT) on Tuesday assured that inconveniences with issuing and renewing student bus passes are just a one-off and ...

Substitute Jordan Siebatcheu scored a stoppage-time winner to earn Young Boys a 2-1 victory over 10-man Manchester United in their Champions League opener on Tuesday. Cristiano Ronaldo, who equalled the ...

UK High Commissioner Stephen Lillie on Tuesday clarified what he said in an interview last week was trying to pick up from where Crans Montana ended is a recipe for ...

Four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the deadly arrest of George Floyd entered not guilty pleas to federal charges of violating Floyd’s civil rights at an arraignment on ...