Archive 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday suggested that Germany supported Israel in the Gaza war out of guilt over the Holocaust and drew a contrast with Turkey, which he said ...

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) in Cyprus increased by 3.6 per cent in October 2023, compared to October 2022, while registering a decrease of 0.1 per cent compared to the previous month, ...

By Charles Ellinas The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in September a review of the energy transition progress on meeting the Paris Agreement goals, referred to as ...

Labour unions on Friday disagreed with the new proposal sent by the state health services organisation (Okypy) to the health ministry, in an ongoing spat over labour agreements at the ...

The establishment of a committee has become the answer to every problem faced by the government in Cyprus. Nicos Anastasiades started this practice during his presidency, setting up a committee ...

Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) unveiled its first high-performance electric vehicle(EV), an N sport variant of its IONIQ 5 crossover SUV. The South Korean automaker said that the IONIQ 5 N, which will ...

The White House condemned Elon Musk’s endorsement of what it called a “hideous” antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, while major U.S. companies including Walt Disney Co DIS.N, ...

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 400 Tomahawk missiles and related equipment to Japan in a deal valued at $2.35 billion, the Pentagon said on Friday. The ...

Ukraine and the United States will hold a military industry conference in Washington on Dec. 6 and 7, Ukrainian and U.S. officials said on Friday. Kyiv is ramping up efforts to ...

Former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, the wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has entered hospice care at home, Carter Center said in a statement on Friday. “She and ...

Thousands of Greeks marched peacefully through the streets of Athens on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of a violently quashed student uprising in 1973 that helped topple the then- military ...

Finland will erect barriers at four crossings on its border with Russia from midnight, officials said on Friday, in a bid to stem an increase in migrants that Helsinki says ...

Liberia opposition leader Joseph Boakai was on course to become president after preliminary election results announced on Friday gave him a slim lead over incumbent George Weah with nearly all ...

Recommendations from the ombudswoman’s office are implemented to a large degree, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Friday following a house finance committee session, where she presented her office’s ...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday said he had received a joint request from five countries to investigate the situation in the Palestinian territories. Prosecutor Karim Kahn ...

Cancer mortality rates in Cyprus are some of the lowest in the EU, though figures are on an upwards trajectory, experts said on Friday during the ‘Cyprus and Europe’s ...

The Rialto Theatre will resume its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera of New York, presenting The Met: Live in HD 2023-24 with nine new operas broadcast live at cinemas around ...

Nine large tractors and eight excavators were received by the forestry department on Friday, an announcement said. The tractors and excavators were received as part of the department’s strategy ...

A total of 202 people were deported from Cyprus over the past week, an announcement from the police said on Friday, after the individuals were found to be residing illegally in ...

Cyprus is committed to increase defence spending to 2 per cent of GDP in the next five years, MPs were told on Friday. Presenting the defence ministry’s 2024 budget to the ...

A stunning performance by world number two Carlos Alcaraz earned the Spaniard a 6-4 6-4 victory over Russia’s Daniil Medvedev to secure his place in the last four of ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday, with both hoping to find common ground on trade, migration and defence despite views ...

UN aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended again on Friday due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, deepening the misery of thousands of hungry and homeless Palestinians as ...

Charles Leclerc led Ferrari team mate Carlos Sainz in a practice one-two on Friday to cap an extraordinary first night at the Las Vegas Grand Prix with the delayed track ...