Archive Friday, 29 September 2023

Armenia has asked the World Court to order Azerbaijan to withdraw all its troops from civilian establishments in Nagorno-Karabakh and provide the United Nations access, the court said on Friday. ...

Theodosis Tsolias, the finance ministry’s directorate of growth head and former cabinet secretary, has rubbished claims he should quit after taking leave to work in Luxembourg. Tsiolas took leave ...

Eight people were rescued off the coast of Mari on Friday evening after their boat capsized. According to the Joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC), a radio call was received at ...

Azerbaijan has invited a United Nations mission to visit Nagorno-Karabakh “in the coming days”, the foreign ministry said on Friday, amid a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region ...

Las Vegas police arrested a man on suspicion of murder in the shooting of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur, who was killed in the city nearly three decades ago, the Associated ...

Cyprus is ‘considering’ hosting ethnic Armenians displaced following the announcement of the dissolution of Armenian authorities in the Karabakh region, according to the foreign ministry They said, “given the traditionally ...

Migrants picked up at sea by rescue ships must be sent to the countries that support the NGO charities, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday, demanding that an ...

Library membership in the north has increased by 25 per cent since last year, according to the north’s culture department director Sirin Zaimagaoglu. There are now a total of 2,950 members ...

A suicide bomber set off an explosion at a shop selling tea in Somalia’s capital on Friday, killing at least seven people, a witness and medical personnel and police ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli has doubled down on controversial comments made on social media website Facebook on Friday, wherein he accused other users of being “mentally ill.” ...

El-Sen, the trade union of employees of the north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek), has announced that it has sued the authority over the hiring of workers who had not sat ...

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 13.3 per cent in 2022, according to the north’s statistics agency. The total GDP stood just shy of 73.9 billion TL (€2.6 billion), which ...

One upcoming performance set to entertain music lovers is the progressive metal quartet Mother Of Millions, who will travel to the island for its first performance this autumn. Savino Live ...

Hundreds of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Friday to show support for the ruling junta, one year after it seized power in a coup. Supporters gathered ...

Employees from the Morphou district water committee will go on strike on Monday, saying their employer has not made social insurance contributions for two years. They also claim the cost ...

The legal service is dealing with one of its biggest ever caseloads surrounding the ‘golden passport’ scandal, with over 110 box files of data to be processed, it emerged on Friday. ...

Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic US senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA’s torture of foreign terrorism ...

The transport ministry has cancelled a tender for a new building for the legal service due to “proper management of public finances” it announced on Friday. As a result, plans ...

SBA personnel and other volunteers, including students, collected some 295 kilogrammes of trash during a cleanup operation along a six-kilometre stretch of beach in Larnaca on Friday. The cleanup occurred at ...

Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos on Friday expressed his “satisfaction” with the government’s defence spending target and with the progress being made to reach it. The government has set a ...

There are signs that there is movement regarding the appointment of UN envoy on the Cyprus problem, Unficyp Chief Colin Stewart said on Friday at the fourth Cyprus Forum in ...

Some 228 public schools will start operating in the afternoon as of Monday despite challenges that arose, the education ministry has announced. The optional afternoon schools will be implemented for the 2023...

The interior ministry said on Friday it has the “clear intention to proceed” with the construction of housing for 600 low-income families in Limassol. They added, “for this reason, the project ...

House President Annita Demetriou called for the creation of an “environment which encourages women” to participate in public life on Friday. She was peaking on the issue of equality and ...