Archive 2023

Public sector workers in the north are set to work the same hours all year round, after a bill was unanimously passed in ‘parliament’ on Friday. Pending assent from Turkish ...

One of Netflix’s latest comedy-dramas, Glamorous, is very 2023. Its protagonist is gender non-conforming queer person Marco, a type of beauty influencer who gets a job as an assistant to ...

Spanish football federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales said on Friday he would not step down in the face of pressure from politicians, players, unions and FIFA for kissing player Jenni ...

Medical equipment is set to be donated to the Makarios hospital’s paediatric clinic by the Australian Hellenic medical charity. The charity, operating alongside the Cypriot community of Adelaide, announced ...

The picnic site in the village of Vouno was sealed off by the Dikomo municipality on Friday in an ongoing spat regarding an “unauthorised” building on the site. According to ...

Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul issued a warning to people illegally taking water from the town’s supply on Friday. Senkul said there is a difference of about 250 thousand tonnes between ...

Eurobank on Friday announced a further increase in its ownership share of Hellenic Bank, with the bank disclosing that it has reached an agreement with Senvest Management LLC to acquire ...

Russia on Friday scolded U.S. President Joe Biden for expressing his lack of surprise that Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed in a plane crash and cautioned ...

Mastercard (MA.N) and crypto exchange Binance will end their four crypto card programmes in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Bahrain as of Sept. 22, a spokesperson for Mastercard said via email ...

Jacobi Asset Management, a London-based firm, has listed Europe’s first spot Bitcoin ETF on Euronext Amsterdam. The launch of the ETF is significant as it allows investors to gain ...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades hosted an official dinner for United States senator Robert Menendez on Thursday evening at his home in Limassol. The dinner, held in the garden of Anastasiades’ ...

In the charred Greek landscape close to the border with Turkey, a group of blackened corpses lay amid the ashes of what was once a lush forest that offered migrants ...

September will see a range of changes in the national health care system (Gesy) with the health insurance organisation (HIO) ready to implement several decisions drawn up in recent months, ...

A 29-year-old man was arrested at Paphos airport on Thursday after attempting to depart with a counterfeit Czech identity card. Police said the man presented himself at the airport’s ...

Two cases of deaths of national guard soldiers in the line of duty have been referred to the courts. The cases involve the deaths of Captain Xanthos Kyriacou, who was ...

The crypto market has matured in recent years, and so are the investors. Now, investors prefer long-term stable projects to short-term riskier tokens. Recently, Pomerdoge launched its presale, which became ...

Asian stocks sold off and the dollar scaled an 11-week peak against major peers on Friday as investors braced for the risk of a hawkish tilt from Federal Reserve Chair ...

A day before mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash, a Russian official visited Libya to reassure allies that fighters from the Wagner Group would remain in the country — but ...

Around 30kg of illegal drugs were found at an address in Trachoni leading to the arrest of seven people, British bases police said on Friday. The operation was carried out ...

The German economy stagnated in the second quarter compared to the previous three months, following a winter recession, data from the statistics office showed on Friday. The figure of zero ...

A 36-year-old man was sentenced to 22 months in prison in Famagusta on Thursday for “assisting the illegal entry of persons” into Cyprus. In addition to the first charge, he was ...

A total of 6,133 repatriations of third country nationals have taken place this year, according to figures released by the police on Friday. Of those repatriations, 1,326 cases concerned the forced returns ...

The US Justice Department sued Elon Musk-owned rocket and satellite company SpaceX on Thursday for allegedly discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in hiring. “The lawsuit alleges that, from at ...

The number of migrants recorded as living in the Ayios Nikolaos complex in Chlorakas has reached 246, Paphos CID head Michalis Nikolaou said on Friday. “The majority of the inhabitants are ...