Archive February 2023

The subsidy for the cost of electricity consumption from September 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023 amounted to €58.4 million, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In an announcement, the ministry said that it had ...

Lidl Cyprus is continuing its support for the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society’s mission for yet another year, donating €106,000 toward the needs of cancer patients and their families. For the 10th ...

Reservoirs are less full than last year despite frequent rain over the past week, with total reserves standing at 67.2 per cent compared with 75.9 per cent this time last year, the ...

Blood stocks in Cyprus are at dangerously low levels and present amounts will only last three weeks, said the head of the blood bank Androula Panayiotou. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The cost of the presidential elections is estimated at €7 million based on the appropriations included in the interior ministry’s 2023 budget. This was up from €5.2m for the 2018 presidential elections. ...

Britain’s finance ministry laid out its first set of rules to regulate cryptoassets on Wednesday, saying ongoing turbulence in the sector and the collapse of exchange FTX highlighted risks ...

Human rights organisations and NGOs in the north on Friday are set to hold a demonstration outside a court in Trikomo, where a 21-year-old suspected of murdering 16-year-old girl Zehie ...

Developing fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) that can go everywhere has proven harder and more expensive than expected, but investors are continuing to fund startups that target simpler self-driving vehicle solutions ...

Undecided over who to vote for in the upcoming presidential elections? A team from Cyprus’ university of technology (Tepak) has prepared a list of 22 questions for voters, which can tell ...

Mourners and protesters faced off in Sydney on Thursday at the funeral service for Australian Cardinal George Pell, a former top Vatican official who was acquitted in 2020 of sexual abuse ...

North Korea said on Thursday that drills by the United States and its allies have reached an “extreme red-line” and threaten to turn the peninsula into a “huge war arsenal ...

Archbishop Georgios is open to lifting the 2015 excommunication of theologian Andreas Pitsillides if he withdraws “his heretical views” on the Orthodox faith, it was reported on Thursday. According to ‘sources’ ...

Investment firms and brokers in Britain teamed up on Thursday to back a new standalone retail platform to strengthen access for small investors to the UK capital market. Investment bank ...

Cyprus has been classed as a ‘flawed democracy’, ranking 37th in the list of countries analysed by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) 2022 Democracy Index. The position on the table ...

PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) will need to cut more costs with its payment volumes expected to shrink as customers batten down the hatches to prepare for a potential economic ...

I remember the days when some people would laugh knowing I lived in Larnaca saying ‘it’s only good for the airport!’ I think it’s pretty safe to say ...

Shell delivered a record $40 billion profit in 2022, the energy giant said on Thursday, capping a tumultuous year in which a surge in energy prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...

Kazuyoshi Miura will continue his professional career in Portugal at the age of 55 after the former Japan striker joined second-tier Oliveirense on loan from Yokohama FC, the Portuguese club said ...

Cycle police in Paphos handed out a total of 94 out-of-court traffic fines in January, according to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Nicolaou. In addition to that, he said the same unit ...

Novak Djokovic played with a three-centimetre (1.2 inches) tear in his hamstring during his run to a record-extending 10th Australian Open title, tournament director Craig Tiley said on Wednesday. The Serbian, ...

Second-half goals from Anthony Martial and Fred earned Manchester United a comfortable 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday to secure a 5-0 aggregate win and a place in the ...

Within the framework of the project Foodprint: The Mediterrnean Diet Revisited, the Goethe-Institut Cyprus is organising a cooking and photography workshop this February. The hands-on experience will get participants cooking ...

In today’s episode, with independent candidate Achilleas Demetriades being the latest to publish his detailed funding for the election campaign, presidential hopeful Nikos Christodoulides is left as one of ...

Cyprus and four other countries – Barbados, Malaysia, South Korea and Malta – have been included in the UN’s honour roll after paying in full their annual contribution to the regular ...