Archive February 2023

The social welfare services is rolling out a new hotline for the public to call when in need of information, it emerged on Tuesday. The number is 1450 and will be ...

A 38-year-old man was banned from all sports venues on Tuesday, following a decision at Nicosia district court. According to police, the man was wearing a hood covering his face ...

A French civil court on Tuesday dismissed a fast-track lawsuit brought by campaigners against energy major TotalEnergies TTEF.PA over its oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania, saying the case ...

Cyprus will celebrate the 2023 Francophonie Month as part of the country’s efforts to promote multilingualism, outgoing Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference, Prodromou ...

In 2021, general government total expenditure in the EU amounted to 51.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) and was still influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and government measures to mitigate ...

‘Parliament’ in the north descended into a shouting match on Tuesday after ‘Foreign Minister’ Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu was called a rude, disrespectful traitor over the ongoing row on the ...

The PEO trade union on Tuesday called on the new government to bin the revised strategy on hiring foreign workers – announced by the outgoing administration a week ago – saying that ...

Shortly after taking the oath of office on Tuesday, new President Nikos Christodoulides said he welcomes criticism of his appointments after it was pointed out to him that he had ...

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday allowed victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre to retain a forensic financial investigator to dig into the finances of bankrupt right-wing conspiracy theorist ...

The first week of March brings with it a touch of alternative performances at Nicosia’s popular jazz bar. Beyond the live music nights audiences are used to, Sarah’s ...

A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to 10 months in prison for spreading disinformation, handing down the first jail term under a new law that critics say threatens free ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday’s shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy. Rescuers have so far confirmed ...

Newly sworn in President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said finding solutions to solve the Cyprus problem would be the absolute priority of his administration. His first words in the post ...

A total of 1,349 traffic violations were recorded between February 24 and 28, the police said on Tuesday. Of the registered offences, 738 were for driving above the speed limit, 99 for drink driving, 86 for ...

Total rainfall in February was 75 per cent of average for the month, preliminary data released by the met office on Tuesday showed. The average rainfall for February is 81.6 mm, while ...

A 54-year-old man has been arrested after he fatally wounded the pit bull of his neighbour with a knife because the animal allegedly attacked his own dog. The incident was ...

A 40-year-old man found guilty of people smuggling migrants to Cyprus was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in jail by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday. The decision was made six ...

A woman developed large bedsores after she was hospitalised for a month and her wounds remained untreated, doctor Marios Kyriazis claimed on Tuesday in another effort to show the “shortcomings” ...

Bird trapping with nets has almost halved in Cyprus when comparing autumn 2022 with the previous year, BirdLife Cyprus announced on Tuesday, calling the results “promising”. The figures reveal a 49 per ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in Northern Ireland and then met with his own lawmakers on Tuesday to sell his new deal with the European Union to ease post-Brexit ...

Nikos Christodoulides was officially sworn in on Tuesday as the eighth president of the Republic in a short ceremony held at the House of Representatives. Arriving at parliament shortly after 11...

Liverpool will play Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fourth time in 11 games and manager Juergen Klopp said they will look to get their Premier League season back on track as they ...

Despite pledging that his cabinet would be made up of new faces, half of which would be women, new President Nikos Christodoulides named a council of ministers that did not ...

Low-cost carrier Wizz Air on Tuesday announced a new route from Larnaca to Abu Dhabi. The route will become operational on July 3 with triweekly (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) flights ...