Archive February 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Western missions would “pay” for issuing security warnings and temporarily closing consulates in Turkey last week, while police said there was no serious threat to ...

Far-right party Elam candidate Christos Christou and his party have seen an uptick in the 2023 presidential elections in comparison to 2018, official results showed on Sunday’s first round. In 2018’s ...

Israel’s justice minister said on Sunday he would not freeze “for even a minute” the legislative process for proposed judicial reforms that have drawn widespread condemnation both domestically and ...

Manchester City’s bid to chop Arsenal’s Premier League lead to two points was scuppered as Harry Kane’s record-breaking goal earned Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 won over the ...

The number of presidential hopefuls was whittled down to two on Sunday leaving Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis to battle it out in the runoff next week. The results are ...

Disy presidential hopeful Averof Neophytou appears to have conceded defeat and congratulated his rival candidates Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis, it emerged on Sunday. According to Cybc, based on the ...

Pope Francis said on Sunday that laws criminalising LGBT people are a sin and an injustice because God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction. Francis, who made his remarks ...

Four migrants, including three children, died after their boat sank off the island of Leros in the southeastern Aegean Sea on Sunday, the Greek coast guard said. The coast guard ...

Akel-backed independent candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis on Sunday pulled ahead for second place in round two of presidential elections next week, as Nikos Christodoulides remained the favourite with 76 per cent of ...

A yellow weather warning was issued by the meteorological service on Sunday afternoon, as isolated storms and rain are expected. The met service said that the warning will be in ...

Cyprus goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president

Just over 72 per cent of people voted in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, while close to 30 per cent of people abstained, a trend that has been steadily ...

Bankers failed to make use of idle cash and help create a healthy, equitable economy The activities and performance of Cyprus banks during the Anastasiades administration shows that they have ...

A number of voters on Sunday reported they received text messages from presidential candidates calling on them to go vote. Data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou said there were different cases ...

Iran‘s supreme leader has pardoned “tens of thousands” of prisoners including some arrested in recent anti-government protests, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, after a deadly state crackdown ...

Three minor incidents occurred in Limassol during voting on Sunday. In one case a voter in Plataniskia village arrived ten minutes early and tried to insist on getting in earlier ...

But the result was never in doubt The first-ever presidential elections in Cyprus in 1959 were by all accounts a rushed, tumultuous affair – though their legitimacy or result never questioned. They ...

Archbishop Makarios barely had any opposition when he stood for president – three times – and there was no second round until 1988 A record 14 candidates will be contesting today’s presidential elections, ...

Cops, choppers and drones were out in force on Sunday to monitor and ensure that voting in the presidential elections went smoothly. Around 2,000 officers were on duty, while helicopters and ...

Former British prime minister Liz Truss blamed on Sunday the economic “orthodoxy” in the country’s finance ministry, other nations and in parts of the governing Conservative Party for derailing ...

All the heavy hitters have cast their ballots with the candidates united across the political spectrum in urging the public to get out and vote. Outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades, after ...

Turkish police said they had not found evidence of any concrete threat to foreigners after detaining 15 Islamic State suspects accused of targeting consulates and non-Muslim houses of worship, state media ...

Corruption has been a major election issue but tackling it will take far more than cliched statements Veteran politician Christos Pourgourides has called on the public going into the elections ...

Accepting bothersome bureaucracy is a worldwide challenge not restricted to Cyprus, may I ask the above question and refer readers to the possibility that the ME3 “yellow slip” is less ...