Archive Thursday, 01 June 2023

Parliament on Thursday voted through legislation prohibiting the gathering, transport and trade in unripe carobs. The bill, tabled by Disy MP Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis, passed with 31 votes for, one against. It ...

President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy on Thursday, but got up quickly and ...

BRICS foreign ministers on Thursday asserted their bloc’s ambition to rival Western powers but their talks in South Africa were overshadowed by questions over whether Russia’s president would ...

The presidents of Kosovo and Serbia held talks on Thursday on resolving a political crisis that has spiralled into violence, with the leaders of France and Germany pressing them to ...

Cypriot MPs and visiting parliamentarians from Germany on Thursday discussed the beefing up of cooperation between the two nations’ armed forces, and the replacement of the Republic’s weapons systems. ...

U.S. President Joe Biden predicted on Thursday Sweden will join NATO “soon”, speaking at the U.S. Air Force Academy days after he hinted at a possible deal to ...

A 60-year-old man drowned on Thursday while scuba diving in Paralimni, the police said. The deceased was identified as Axel Schoeller, aged 60, an Austrian national and permanent resident of Paralimni. ...

Fourth seed Casper Ruud and holder Iga Swiatek stayed on course to reach consecutive finals at the French Open while a couple of unheralded names in the women’s draw ...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday he would soon travel to Turkey to discuss Sweden’s NATO membership, in a bid to close a process that has been delayed ...

Former spy boss Tasos Tzionis has been brought out of retirement to head up the Central Intelligence Service (KYP) once again, it emerged on Thursday. Tzionis, 68, had previously served as ...

Far-right Oath Keepers militant group member Roberto Minuta was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Thursday after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other crimes ...

Preparations are underway in Paphos on Thursday for the four-day Kataklysmos festivities. The traditional annual celebration of the Flood will take place from Friday, June 2 through June 5, in the Kato ...

Gal Luft, the Israeli professor who skipped bail in Cyprus while facing extradition to the United States where he is wanted for arms trafficking, has resurfaced, telling the New York ...

This summer, village theatres and squares around Cyprus will continue to resound with the sounds of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra as another edition of its Community Outreach Concerts takes place. ...

Volunteers collected 680 kilos of rubbish along the Dasoudi beachfront as part of the underwater and beach cleanliness campaign in Limassol. The clean-up was organised by the Coastal Studies and Research ...

A group representing the Ukrainian community in Cyprus on Thursday boldly urged the president and authorities on the island to crack-down and shutdown any pro-Russia support and rallies organised on ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to access specially made so-called backdoor ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides emphasised on Thursday that Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz has the right to undergo a medical review from a doctor of his choice – ahead of his extradition to ...

Disy MP Averof Neophytou is seeking to lower the voting age to 17 and argued that now is the right time to do so. In a statement on Thursday, Neophytou reasoned ...

“That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson was convicted on Wednesday of raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home. A jury deadlocked on another charge that Masterson raped a third ...

By William James LONDON, May 31 (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given his pandemic-era notebooks and messages to the government and urged officials to pass them on to ...

Maintaining a stable and secure environment in the Eastern Mediterranean remains of the utmost strategic importance, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday, participating in the proceedings of the 2nd European ...

By Ethan Pancer, Matthew Philp and Theo Noseworthy In today’s world, our diets are often packed with fats and sugars. Our ancient instinct to crave calorie-rich foods, which once ...

South Africa is mulling its options over an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin should he accept an invitation to a BRICS summit in August, ...