Archive February 2023

The near total plastic bag ban comes into effect on February 18 where they will no longer even be sold, with a few minor exceptions. The ban covers thin plastic carrier ...

In announcing his backing for Nicos Christodoulides’ candidacy, on Thursday, former justice minister, Ionas Nicolaou, cited several reasons for his decision, some of which were shining examples of misinformation. Why ...

The two presidential candidates, independent Nikos Christodoulides and Akel-backed Andreas Mavroyiannis battled it out in a final debate on CyBC TV on Friday night. The debate started with each candidate ...

Belgian prosecutors arrested one lawmaker and took another in for questioning on Friday in connection with a corruption scandal that has hit the European Parliament. The cash-for-influence scandal began in ...

A US fighter jet on Friday shot down over Alaska a high-altitude object that was the size of a small car, on the order of President Joe Biden, the White ...

Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President ...

A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the 2024 Olympics, the Lithuanian sports minister said on Friday, ...

As his parents fought wildfires threatening their home in southern Chile, 13-year-old Lucas Cespedes decided to take action, ferrying firefighters across the local river in a small yellow rowing boat ...

A man in Paris fired shots from his balcony window in Paris’ 15th district and the police have intervened, a police source said on Friday, adding no-one was injured. The ...

Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the compulsory wearing of ...

When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad’s family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labour – giving birth to her third ...

Drone footage in southern Turkey showed a fissure slicing across fields, roads, streams and hillsides, caused by a massive earthquake that struck the region at the start of the week. ...

Britain’s biggest railway workers’ union rejected the latest pay offers from train companies on Friday, signalling more pain for commuters who have been disrupted by sporadic strikes since last ...

An earthquake preparedness meeting was called by the mayor of Limassol on Friday in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Turkey earlier this week. “We could not stay indifferent,” ...

Beached Cuvier’s beaked whales, also known as goose-beaked whales, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) were found in various Paphos locations over the past two days but all, even those helped ...

Construction on the Tepak Tourism School of and the American University of Beirut (AUB Mediterraneo) are progressing at a rapid pace, Director of the Paphos Chamber of Commerce, Marinos Stylianou, ...

A new live broadcast from the National Theatre Live programme will reach Rialto Theatre this month. One of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Much Ado About Nothing, will be presented ...

Back for its 10th edition is the Charity Vienna Ball, which will be held at Hilton Hotel Nicosia in early March organised by the Professional Artistic Dance School Fly-in-Dance. With ...

Two Israelis including a child were killed and several injured when a Palestinian driver rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of ...

Iran’s security forces have arrested the “main perpetrators” of a drone attack on a military site in the central city of Isfahan, in which Israeli “mercenaries” were involved, state ...

The weather this Sunday will be more favourable to voters as temperatures are expected to return to seasonal levels of around 15C to 16C. This will be around 5C higher ...

There will be an increased number of police out and about during Sunday’s second round of the presidential elections due to the proclamation ceremony at the Tassos Papadopoulos stadium ...

Where do you live? In Limassol with my family What did you have for breakfast? Coffee Describe your perfect day? A day full of happy people and a sunny day ...

Charalambos Prountzos has what it takes to take on the post of finance minister, outgoing Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said in an interview on Friday. Giving Prountzos his vote of ...