Archive 2023

Coca Cola HBC said on Wednesday it was temporarily withdrawing batches of two soft drinks from sale in Croatia while the authorities there investigate cases of illness suspected to have ...

Akel on Thursday backed the criticisms of people with disabilities over the annual Radiomarathon fund-raising foundation for being condescending towards them. The left-wing party’s statement was issued after the ...

Everyone will have been surprised by the Limassol district court’s decision in favour of a Laiki Bank depositor who had sought compensation from the authorities for the loss of ...

Portugal will hold a snap parliamentary election on March 10, its second in as many years, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday, following Tuesday’s abrupt resignation of the ...

The house plenum ratified on Thursday the framework agreement for the accession of Cyprus to the International Solar Alliance. Forty-one MPs voted in favour, while four MPs voted against, and ...

Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives had to delay another fiscal 2024 government funding bill on Thursday, as their slim majority struggled to overcome internal differences on spending ...

A number of projects in Paphos have been delayed for decades, hampering developments in the city, MPs at the House labour committee said on Thursday as part of their efforts ...

The former head of Spain’s centre-right People’s Party in the Catalonia region was shot in the face in the Spanish capital Madrid on Thursday, police said. Alejo Vidal-Quadras ...

Ersin Tatar’s office is set to be given a 318 million TL (€10.3m) budget for 2024, as part of the north’s ‘state’ budget begin to be discussed in ‘parliament’. The ...

Cyprus may be embroiled in a €15 million international fraud and money laundering scheme, suspected of obtaining EU funds for IT projects with false invoices, two EU bodies revealed on Thursday. ...

Israel has agreed to pause military operations in parts of north Gaza for four hours a day from Thursday, the White House said, raising hopes of a respite in more ...

Petrol stations will now be able install and use electric car charging stations on their premises, the parliament agreed during the plenum on Thursday. According to what was heard in ...

The Cyprus’ police force is undergoing changes so it stands by the public, rather than against them, as efforts are underway to help the public trust officers more, Justice Minister ...

Russian fuel producers have been told by the government to prepare for the scrapping of all remaining restrictions on the export of diesel and gasoline, three industry sources told Reuters ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers staged a protest outside the north’s ‘parliament’ and ‘education ministry’ on Thursday, calling on ‘minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu to resign. The protests were held over a range ...

Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas on Thursday freed the father of Liverpool soccer player Luis Diaz, after taking him hostage in the country’s north nearly two weeks ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas The interior ministry said on Thursday that they agree on the recommendations for stricter checks made in an audit office report on golden visa ...

Despite challenges in local authority reform, efforts to implement the changes are non-negotiable, as the quality of services which will be offered to the public will be far more effective ...

The Lefteris Economou Cultural Foundation will present the first institutional solo exhibition of the artist Anastasia Mina this week. The exhibition at Garage Art Space running from Saturday to December 2 ...

By John Irish President Nikos Christodoulides outlined a proposal on Thursday to open a maritime corridor to help deliver more aid to Gaza, a plan which he said could be ...

An official request has been submitted to the north’s ‘labour ministry’ on Thursday that the minimum wage be raised. The request was submitted by the Cyprus Turkish trade unions ...

The Republic of Ireland on Thursday donated €25,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), taking the total of donations made by the country since 2006 to €450,000. The CMP said the money “...

Municipalities are in need of a total of €14 million in emergency financial assistance, Larnaca Mayor and Municipalities’ Union chairman Andreas Vyras said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Municipalities’ Union’s ...

Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according to a programme released by the ...