Archive June 2023

When a government introduces a temporary measure, aimed at offering relief to people, its eventual revocation is certain to spark opposition. There will be demands for keeping the measure in ...

Saudi Arabia’s inflation rate was 2.8 per cent in May, slightly higher than 2.7 per cent the previous month, driven by housing costs, government data released on Thursday showed. Higher prices ...

International donors pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.13 billion) at an EU-hosted conference in Brussels on Thursday to help Syria where an earthquake in February compounded the plight of a poverty-stricken population caught ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke on the phone on Thursday, exchanging views on the next steps regarding efforts to resume Cyprus peace talks. According to a ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies ...

Parliament on Thursday passed a law raising the maximum court-imposed fine on employers for failing to pay employees’ salaries. The text of the legislation was also amended so to as ...

Russia again told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday it wants an international investigation into explosions last September on the Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany that ...

The nationalist Elam party late on Thursday hit back at what they called a manufactured political outcry over an alleged walkout from parliament during a minute’s silence held by ...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday left open the prospect that his term may be extended as senior officials from alliance member countries openly endorsed the idea – including one of ...

The cabinet on Thursday green-lit changes to the legislation governing Value Added Tax (VAT) cutting the applicable 5 per cent rate down to 3 per cent on certain items and services, as ...

The U.S. government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the ...

In a resolution adopted Thursday, the European Parliament called on Cyprus to repeal all spyware export licenses as well as to declassify a report on the Israeli ‘spy van’. The ...

Ksoporti At Foundation organises the exhibition of two of its members, the abstract artists George Heracleous and Vito Xenodochides, titled Mending the Wounds. Following the horrific incident that unfolded on ...

Cyprus aims to attract medical tourists with a new multi-million scheme that will provide subsidies to tourist accommodations so that they can become more accessible with medical facilities. Cabinet approved ...

Upgrading existing facilities and adding a new wing to the prison will solve the problem of overcrowding, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Thursday, after a cabinet meeting. She said: “...

Wind speeds and rainfall picked up on India’s Gujarat coast late on Thursday, officials said, after authorities there and in neighbouring Pakistan evacuated more than 180,000 people in the path ...

Plans were announced by the government on Thursday for the creation of a new deputy ministry of migration and asylum. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou explained that the new deputy ministry ...

Russia announced plans on Thursday to stage elections in occupied parts of Ukraine in just three months, Moscow’s latest bid to signal it is in control even as a ...

Preparations are underway for Evagoras Papasavvas, a 15-year-old Cypriot race car driver, to compete at the Grand Prix of Road America this weekend at the Road America track, one of ...

Authorities rescued a 36-year-old man in danger in the Faros area, Larnaca on Thursday, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) said. According to the JRCC, they received a call from ...

The government will provide up to €15,000 to people with disabilities who need to buy a wheelchair after cabinet on Thursday increased the amount of financial aid and types of subsidised ...

Bedlam in Britain’s 1.5 trillion-pound ($1.9 trillion) mortgage market, fuelled by ructions in money markets, threatens to trigger a renewed slump in housing activity and financial pain for homeowners on a ...

As part of the ongoing efforts to tackle undeclared work, the labour ministry on Thursday announced that since April police apprehended a total of 191 individuals across Cyprus, after targeted inspections ...

Former Scotland defender Gordon McQueen, who played for Manchester United and Leeds United, died on Thursday at the age of 70 after a battle with dementia. McQueen began his playing career ...