Archive June 2023

Those who lived through the invasion of 1974 can be prone to hoarding. ALIX NORMAN finds out why, and how this cluttered mindset still affects Cyprus today In 1974, many Cypriots were ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday his plan to stop migrants arriving in small boats had reduced crossings by 20%, an update he hopes will ease criticism from his ...

Kataklysmos long weekend celebrations come to an end on Monday with water sports events. A series of events were held to mark the traditional annual celebration of The Flood, with ...

A 14-year-old boy and two 15-year-olds were arrested on Monday in connection with the assault and robbery of a food delivery man and his two friends in Limassol. The boys ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks back on a period when four well-loved TV shows came to an end It was bad. Really bad. Going through it was borderline torture and should be ...

The Commissioner for the Environment, Maria Panayiotou, said that the Pedagogical Academy National Forest Park in Nicosia is set to become a model in terms of water management. In a ...

A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange’s purportedly independent U.S. affiliate, including an account that held American ...

Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday. The poisoning, which targeted a girls’ school in the Afghan province of ...

A fire that broke out in a parked vehicle slightly damaged the electrical system of an apartment building in Paphos, it emerged on Monday. Two fire engines rushed to the ...

AN estate agent, in the exercise of his profession, provides mediation services, with the aim of carrying out a real estate transaction between a seller and a buyer. The relationship ...

The United Nations said on Monday it was “alarmed” by detentions in Hong Kong linked to the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while China said the financial hub ...

A computer outage disrupted train travel to and from Amsterdam and in other parts of the Netherlands for hours on Sunday and Monday, Dutch railway company NS said. The outage ...

Ten passengers were rescued after a UK-flagged vessel ran aground in shallow waters in the Agia Napa sea area on Sunday afternoon. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre received information about ...

The continuation of innovations and developments in transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), cloud computing, blockchain, and super-fast ...

Paphos police on Monday said they arrested a 58-year-old man over the possession of over 285 kilos of dairy products and dozens of cartons of tobacco products. The man was stopped ...

Lululemon Athletica Inc (LULU.O) raised its annual sales and profit forecasts on Thursday as wealthy Americans snap up its pricey activewear even though inflation hounds wider retail spending, sending ...

ASOS (ASOS.L), the British online fashion pioneer valued at more than 7 billion pounds ($8.8 billion) just over two years ago, has been relegated from the FTSE 250 index of mid-sized companies, ...

Investors who earned easy money with high-risk bonds invented after the financial crisis are being forced to accept that the rules have changed: they may not get paid. Banks typically ...

The UAE Central Bank has issued new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing guidance for financial institutions when dealing with virtual assets, such as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, it said on ...

Over half of people have negatively evaluated the government under President Nikos Christodoulides just three months after taking on the role, a survey showed. A poll conducted by Retailzoom online ...

Outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia Inc has settled its lawsuit accusing Gap Inc (GPS.N) of illegally copying the “iconic” snapped flap pocket that the company has long featured on its ...

The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into ...

By Les Manison Newly elected President Nikos Christodoulides promised in his campaign that his government would be one of “broad social acceptance”. For the economy this should mean a situation ...

Republic is dragging its feet over conferring IDs/passports to their children Traction is being gained by a group of Turkish Cypriots in mixed marriages, who have filed a petition ...