Archive 2023

Tuesday will be mostly clear with temperatures rising to 37C in the interior, 32C on the west coast, 34C on the remaining coasts and 31C in the higher mountains. Winds ...

Cyprus has been garnering substantial attention from international investors, particularly from fund managers and investment funds, as it solidifies its position as a top investment destination in Eastern Europe and ...

A 20-year-old motorcyclist is being treated in hospital in critical condition following a collision shortly before 1pm on Monday. According to police statement, around 12.45pm, a car driven by a 54...

An eight-year-old girl is intubated in a critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital, after an accident shortly after midnight on Tuesday. According to the police, in the early hours ...

Nearly 1,000 firefighters were battling a wildfire in southern Portugal on Tuesday that has been raging for four days, scorching thousands of hectares and forcing the evacuation of around 1,400 people. The ...

Russian missiles struck the centre of Ukraine’s Pokrovsk twice on Monday night killing eight people, including five civilians, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a statement. The second missile ...

If medieval advances in the plough didn’t lift Europe’s peasants out of poverty, it was largely because their rulers took the wealth generated by the new gains in ...

The fire in the foothills of the Limassol mountains is completely under control and has no active front though firefighting forces remain vigilant in the area on Tuesday, while pre-emptive ...

In a bid to strengthen their existing partnership and foster collaboration in various areas of mutual interest, the Cyprus Shipping Chamber and the University of Cyprus recently signed a cooperation ...

British employers reduced the number of new permanent staff they hired through recruitment agencies by the most since mid 2020 last month due to concerns about the economic outlook, adding to ...

The population of Cyprus saw a significant increase of 9.9 per cent during the decade from 2011 to 2021, as revealed by the preliminary results of the 2021 population and housing census, which was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was on Monday urged by one of his government allies to get the state-run power utility to refund people in the next batch of electricity bills to ...

Addressing the anti-occupation gathering in Famagusta the mayor Simos Ioannou said, “we will continue to convey in every direction that partition will never be an option for the Cypriot people.” ...

Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco (2222.SE) on Monday reported a near 38 per cent drop in second-quarter net profit reflecting lower oil prices and thinner margins in refining and chemicals. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has condemned recent comments made by his predecessor between 2005 and 2010 Mehmet Ali Talat on the Cyprus problem, saying “they are of no benefit to the ...

Trade unions in the north have raised the alarm over potentially unsafe school buildings, weeks before the academic year is set to begin. Concerns were initially raised following the devastating ...

Ukrainian troops are creating conditions to advance forward step-by-step and have the initiative on the battlefield, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said on Monday. Kyiv’s defensive lines are stable with troops ...

A US judge on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation counterclaim against the writer E Jean Carroll, who won a $5 million (€4.5 million) jury verdict for defamation and sexual assault against ...

Foreign minister Constantinos Kombos held a telephone conversation with United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday. Among other things, the pair discussed the Cyprus problem, cooperation between Cyprus ...

A few weeks before the Nicosia International Festival 2023 raises the curtain on a local and international programme of performances, it will hold the Parallel Program with a five-day theatrical workshop ...

The prison selected by the Pakistani government to detain former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, convicted of graft, is a lowly and distant facility that houses hardened criminals and does ...

A senior Ukrainian official said on Monday that the weekend’s talks in Saudi Arabia about the war in Ukraine dealt a “huge blow” to Russia, and that the participants ...

The situation regarding the fire in the area of Alassa is “progressing really well”, according to fire brigade chief Nicos Longinos. He said the fire was brought under control after ...

The Health Insurance Organisation – the agency running the national health system or Gesy – will as of this autumn alter the way in which personal doctors are remunerated, with 20 per cent ...