Archive 2023

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos leaves for Brussels on Sunday where he will brief the EU Foreign Affairs Council the following day on the island’s proposal to create a marine ...

A fatal strain of cat Covid which has killed thousands of animals on the island has reached the UK, reports said on Sunday. According to the Daily Mail, scientists said ...

A US military aircraft conducting training operations in the east Mediterranean has crashed, US Command Europe (EUCOM) said on Sunday. The incident, which happened in an undisclosed location on Friday ...

Ukraine will have enough energy resources to get through the coming winter, but an expected surge in Russian attacks may disrupt the supply networks, Ukraine’s Energy Minister German Galushchenko ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting November 6: The total value of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the Cypriot banking system at the end of August 2023 ...

Decisions were made foolishly, chaotically and with a lot of expletives There is a judge-led inquiry going on in the UK about the central government’s response to the Covid 19 ...

Economic stakeholders this week convened at this year’s annual Economist Conference in Cyprus to explore the need for revitalising the country’s development model and strategise ways to address ...

WISDOM does not always feature prominently in the decisions taken by our judges. In fact, there are times when decisions could be described as completely lacking in wisdom – this is ...

Speaking at the 19th Economist summit in Nicosia, Colin Stewart, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative, said the understanding reached between the two sides on the issue of Pyla was ...

By Maria Demertzis On 20 October, S&P Global Ratings raised the Greek economy’s credit rating back to investment grade. That was seen by many, in Greece and beyond, ...

Ebay (EBAY.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday and joined other e-commerce platforms in sounding the alarm on weaker-than-expected consumer spending. San Jose, California-based ...

Nintendo (7974.T) made a pitch for the ongoing match fitness of its aging Switch console on Wednesday, as the Kyoto-based gaming company continues to churn out hits even as the ...

Environmental groups call for roadworks to halt saying plan is being violated After 38 years of struggle to protect Akamas the prospects of genuine conservation of the peninsula – the only remaining ...

Samsung and Qualcomm are among those opposing India’s choice of technology to bring live TV broadcasts on smartphones, arguing the required hardware changes will push up a device’s ...

More than 300,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday, with police arresting over 120 people as they sought to stop far-right counter-protesters from ambushing the main rally. Skirmishes broke out ...

The precious metal’s role as far back as antiquity offers a window into the rise and fall of past civilisations. By Gareth Willmer Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded ...

Defender Victor Lindelof scored in the second half as struggling Manchester United breathed a collective sigh of relief with a 1-0 victory over Luton Town in the Premier League at ...

The latest in a series of pro-Palestine protests began at Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square on Saturday afternoon. Protesters are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, and end to the blockade on ...

Wolverhampton Wanderers stunned Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 with stoppage-time goals from Pablo Sarabia and Mario Lemina on Saturday, thwarting the visitors in their bid to reclaim top spot in the Premier ...

Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, declaring at a joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh that Israel bears responsibility for “...

A ceremony was held at the monument to the Cypriot fallen in the Second World War to commemorate Remembrance Day on Saturday. The day is commemorated across the world on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Turkish Cypriot side had effectively “backed away” from the mutual understanding reached on construction works in the buffer zone village of Pyla. ...

The Turkish Cypriot Federation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Dev-Is) has begun registering retired Turkish Cypriots who worked in the Republic to the health system Gesy. Dev-Is explained they had been ...

A British national has been declared missing after failing to board a flight at Paphos airport on Wednesday. The man, named as 70-year-old Melvyn Storie, was scheduled to fly from ...