Archive 2023

The Cyprus Student Union (Peom) in Limassol collected school supplies for students facing financial difficulties, an announcement from the group said on Thursday. The supplies were collected from August 21 until ...

Police are investigating a case of internet fraud wherein a scam artist managed to extract more than €80,000 from a company based in Nicosia. The case was reported to police by ...

French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure top consumer goods suppliers Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever to reduce inflation ...

Construction work on the road between the villages of Pyla and Arsos resumed on Thursday, with works taking place outside the buffer zone near Arsos. Rumours surfaced among Turkish Cypriot ...

The small Italian island of Lampedusa is being overwhelmed by the number of migrants arriving on its shores, its mayor said on Thursday, after thousands of people landed from North ...

Controversy has surrounded the north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) and its workers’ trade union (El-Sen)’s leader Caglayan Cesurer regarding an alleged nepotism scandal. According to reports, Kib-Tek hired 16 people ...

By Vanessa Barolsky and Yin Paradies Truth-telling is a key demand in the Uluru Statement and is seen as a vital step for a treaty. However, there has been ongoing ...

The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate to a record high of 4% on Thursday but, with the euro zone economy in the doldrums, signalled this was likely to ...

The government’s policy of reducing the VAT rate, in some cases to zero, on various everyday products, has been “very successful”, according to the Consumer protection service’s director ...

Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies reported “a total system collapse” on Thursday, causing widespread blackouts across Africa’s biggest economy. Power generation fell to zero in the early hours and ...

By Jonathan Shkurko, Tom Cleaver and Elias Hazou A blaze that broke out earlier on Thursday near the village of Koilani, Limassol district, was brought under control by the evening, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday condemnation from Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot ‘government’ of the EU parliament report was “nothing new,” while he said the government holds “particularly dear” ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has denied reports that a project aimed at providing housing for 600 low-income families in the Limassol areas of Ayios Nikolaos and Ayios Ioannis is now hanging ...

British opposition leader Keir Starmer said on Thursday a Labour government would set up a new police unit to tackle illegal migration and suggested he was open to a returns ...

Emma Coronel, the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was freed in Los Angeles on Wednesday following her arrest in 2021 on drug trafficking charges, according to ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s security detail spent several minutes disinfecting the chair that Kim sat on during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kommersant newspaper ...

The militaries of the north and Turkey are carrying out joint exercises this week. The exercises, which have been given the official name “Martyr Captain Cengiz Topel Mediterranean storm exercise-23”, ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Elias Hazou The government on Thursday decided to set up an interdepartmental team as a focal point for drawing up policies to stem the tide of ...

An ongoing exhibition in Limassol features a series of photographs taken this past year in the capital city by mixed media artist Ioanna Economidou. Titled Dream, What’s Left Behind, ...

Akamas’ newly formed municipality, which includes the existing Peyia municipality and six other communities, is off to a promising start, Peyia community leader Marinos Lambrou said on Thursday, expressing confidence ...

In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrencies, developments can have a profound impact on the market. Gala (GALA), the native token of Gala Games, has recently faced turbulent times due to ...

Beijing on Thursday blasted the launch of a probe by the European Commission into China’s electric vehicle (EV) subsidies as protectionist and warned it would damage economic and trade ...

The aeronautical exercise “Eunomia 4-2023”, underway in Cyprus from Monday and set to end on Friday with the participation of Cyprus, France, Greece and Italy, will focus on civilian evacuation ...

Belgium said on Thursday it would review the potential health risks linked to Apple’s iPhone 12, becoming the latest European country to react after France ordered a halt to sales ...