Archive 2023

Asylum-seekers arriving in Greece face physical violence including being beaten and sent back to sea, Doctors without Borders said on Thursday, calling on Greece to increase migrant search and rescue ...

Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr both testified on Thursday that they had no involvement with documents that a judge has ruled were fraudulently manipulated to inflate the value of ...

United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at “grave risk of genocide”. Nearly ...

House President Annita Demetriou called on Turkey to “contribute” to the search for missing persons in Cyprus on Thursday. She said the House of Representatives expresses its “undivided support for ...

Palestinians in Gaza sheltering from an intensifying Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands of people are running out of clean water and face growing health risks with public services at ...

Public hospitals will be able to effectively handle increased needs for treatment linked to the conflict in the Middle East, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Thursday. In a meeting ...

A series of music performances are being held this month at Technopolis 20. Coming up on Friday is a jazz concert by a newly-formed trio which will be performing for the ...

The President of the European Investment Bank, Werner Hoyer, is set to make an official visit to Cyprus on Monday. Hoyer will be joined on the island by the newly ...

House President and Disy party leader Annita Demetriou has called for Syria to be classed as a safe country, so that Cyprus can send back Syrian asylum seekers. In a ...

As the crypto market takes a turn toward greener pastures, investors are looking for the top investment opportunities. Veteran crypto experts have found the best cryptos to buy in such ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou presented awards on Thursday to schools which employ the “content and language integrated learning” (CLIL) approach for second and other language education. A total of 85 primary ...

During the 10th Business Leader Awards ceremony, organised by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), and held on October 30, 2023, Leptos Group Co-presidents George and Pantelis Leptos, were awarded ...

House President Annita Demetriou met on Thursday with a delegation from the Scientific and Technical Chamber (Etek). Etek’s delegation was made up of its chairman Konstantinos Konstanti and director ...

Fifty refugee families were almost kicked out of an Ayia Napa hotel they were staying at and put on the street, after their government regulated stay there had expired, and ...

A 57-year-old Australian man has been charged with engaging in sexual intercourse with a child in an abandoned beach in Protaras following international police cooperation. The two are blood relatives ...

The north’s Chief Police Inspector, Ali Savas Altan, was remanded in custody subject to the beginning of a trial, having been charged with taking bribes. Altan stands accused of ...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech which will be closely watched ...

The last Beatles song featuring the voice of late member John Lennon and developed using artificial intelligence was released on Thursday alongside the band’s first track, record label Universal ...

The pound rose on Thursday after the Bank of England held interest rates at a 15-year high but stressed that it did not intend to cut them any time soon. ...

Nicosia will receive support for its green and digital transition through its inclusion in a European Commission initiative, the municipality announced on Thursday. The Cypriot capital has been selected to ...

The Turkish central bank hiked required reserves for FX-protected lira deposits by 5 percentage points, according to a decision published in the Official Gazette early on Thursday. The central bank increased ...

By Benedict Carpenter van Barthold From the end of Antiquity (5th century CE) until about 1250, image-makers were more or less anonymous craftspeople. Traditional images from the Byzantine world dominated art ...

VC Spectra (SPCT) has recently garnered significant investor attention after experts predicted a stunning 900% growth for the new coin. Meanwhile, Monero (XMR) saw a price uptick following its GUI v0.18.3.1 ...

A 34-year-old man who shot and injured another young man in Paphos last month will answer to attempted murder charges on November 16, the criminal court decided on Thursday. Until then, ...