Archive 2023

Police task force cracking down on illegal trade With drug busts on an almost daily basis and increasingly large stashes found, the island’s police drugs task force has painted ...

A German plan to finance charities helping migrants in the Mediterranean causes difficulties for Italy, defence minister Guido Crosetto said on Sunday, as Rome tries to enforce tougher measures to ...

Authorities in Iran have neutralised 30 bombs meant to go off simultaneously in Tehran and detained 28 terrorists linked to Islamic State, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday, citing the ...

Police confirmed reports on Sunday that they maintain a list of foreign nationals suspected of possible links to terrorist groups abroad. In statements to the Cyprus News Agency following a ...

The geopolitical tensions in recent years have taken a toll on the climate of cooperation, especially between major countries. The global economy is rather sluggish, financing conditions have worsened, while ...

Organic production in Cyprus has made huge strides in the past two decades, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Sunday during the first annual organic farming festival in Denia. The ...

The north’s universities are facing crises ahead of the start of the new academic year in October, with financial and administrative issues plaguing its largest academic institutions. The Eastern ...

Jack Straw’s comments in the article Former British foreign secretary calls for two-state solution to Cyprus problem (September 7, 2023) present an inaccurate narrative riddled with omissions. Straw singles out Cyprus ...

An out-of-court fine of €1,500 was imposed on a 61-year-old man found to be in possession of a quantity of duty-free tobacco products, police said. According to police, the man was ...

Xenophon Kallis, head of the missing persons service at the foreign ministry for many years, has passed away at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, CyBc reported ...

In a ten-day tour of China, Jonathan Shkurko welcomes the serenity efficiency brings, and the outstanding flavours of its rich and varied cuisine In the grand mosaic of China’s ...

Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead By Tamsin Phillipa Paige Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...

Dear Nikos and Ersin, Hello. We are Doga and Liana: two Cypriot teenagers from both sides of the divide. In light of the general assembly in New York, we are ...

Paphos police are investigating an attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday in the village of Psathi, they said. According to police, a 31-year-old man was shot at around 5.30...

The optimism growing around manager Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur squad will be put to its stiffest test yet when they visit Arsenal for Sunday’s North London Derby. Despite ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received two refusals from the Turkish Cypriot side and one ‘yes’ and one ‘no’ from Turkey to two proposals related to a joint meeting with the ...

In England this happened in 1999 and in Cyprus this month so it was about time The administration of civil justice in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) has a brand new ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting September 18: Tourist arrivals to Cyprus witnessed a significant surge of 60,254 visitors in August 2023, a rise of 13.4 per cent ...

THE ENGLISH translation of the first name of the deputy government spokesperson, Doxa Komodromou, is ‘glory,’ which is rather unfortunate considering she did not cover herself in glory with her ...

The dramatic increase in migrants crossing the U.S. border from Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, Texas, to “a breaking point,” with more than 2,000 people per day ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday portrayed the United States and Europe as “looking down” on the rest of the world amid a battle to win over developing ...

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a fighter from the Islamist group Hamas, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, emergency workers ...

After a week of wall-to-wall Cyprob contacts on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, President Nikos Christodoulides is coming home with another pocket full of wishes ...

OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Dall-E 3, the latest version of its text-to-image tool that uses its wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to help fill in prompts. Dall-E 3 will be available to ...