Archive 2023

City farming and food sharing are blossoming in Europe with the help of local traditions and EU research. By Anthony King Picture the following scene in the Netherlands: kids roll ...

With text messages and emails under tightened surveillance, financial firms may now have to screen staff video calls for possible rule-breaking, amid concern regulators are poised to scrutinise such calls ...

Britain will host the world’s first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next month, aiming to carve out a role following Brexit as an arbiter between the United States, ...

A bill for the establishment of a Cypriot label on agricultural products is in the final stages of legislative processing at the Legal Service, announced Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos on ...

Fears the price of olive oil may rise to €15 per litre in the coming months It has been a bad year for olive oil. Global production has halved after the ...

A person suffered a minor injury from a shotgun blast in Nicosia, police said on Sunday. According to police, three relatives in Lakatamia were arguing when one of them fired ...

Fears that the Israel-Hamas war could mushroom into wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with Washington warning of a significant risk to U.S. interests in the region as ...

Ayia Napa marina’s €300m East Tower is up and running despite the obstacles of recent years From the veranda of the 14th-floor three-bedroom apartment, a view unparalleled in Cyprus ...

Volunteer organisations realised the importance of environmental protection much earlier than the state, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. The president was speaking at the launch of the Let’s ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent decades, the Chinese economy has been expanding at a fast pace and has proved to be a strong driving force behind the ...

The integration of people with disabilities is one of the foremost goals, said Deputy Minister of Social Welfare Marilena Evangelou on Sunday. The deputy minister was speaking at an annual ...

Car death raises issue of faulty airbags Claims last week that a faulty airbag may have caused a young man’s death has raised questions over who has the responsibility ...

Local and international theatre productions are happening around the island this season and while the majority are currently in Greek as winter arrives and brings the Christmas spirit more plays ...

Police on Sunday said they are investigating the assault of an Israeli man who was putting up posters of children kidnapped by Hamas in Larnaca. The man, together with two ...

Israel expanded planned evacuations of communities on its northern front with Lebanon on Sunday as cross-border clashes with fighters from Lebanese group Hezbollah have intensified since the war in Gaza ...

After 60 years of separation between the two Cypriot sides, a federal solution is a high-risk objective By Fahri Zihni The last time a framework statement of “common understanding” was agreed ...

Foreign ministers from Iran, Turkey, Russia and Georgia will meet their counterparts from Azerbaijan and Armenia in Tehran on Monday and discuss progress towards a peace agreement between the two ...

It is apparent that the authors of the legislation lacked the know-how necessary. As has happened in the past, omissions will lead to deadlocks Recently, I had the opportunity to ...

Concerns about the risk of the Israel-Hamas war mushrooming into a wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with the U.S. sending more military assets to the region as ...

One doctor wrote 7,800 prescriptions in a month The ongoing investigation into the “fake prescription” scandal in the northern part of Cyprus has shaken Turkish Cypriots as they witnessed respected doctors ...

Israeli leaders requested Cyprus to transfer the ‘real’ situation in Israel to the European Union, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday after his visit in Tel Aviv this weekend. Christodoulides ...

Two men, aged 34 and 35, arrested with nine kilos of illegal drugs in Limassol earlier this month, have been remanded for an additional four days on Sunday. The pair reappeared in ...

Two high-profile resignations have highlighted the disunity within the Cyprus Green party By Efi Xanthou Last week the political scene was jolted by a series of resignations in the Cyprus ...

Announcements regarding the possibility of the resumption of the Cyprus Problem negotiations are expected in the coming days, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters, the president underscored ...