Archive 2023

A stroke patient who waited for about seven hours on a stretcher at the Paphos accidents and emergency department “is receiving full medical care” state health services organisation (Okypy) said ...

British band The 1975 said on Sunday they have cancelled shows in Taiwan and Muslim-majority Indonesia, a day after Malaysia banned them from performing there after their frontman kissed a bandmate ...

More than 20 ground-breaking documentaries will take place at the 18th edition of the Lemesos International Documentary Festival this summer. From August 1 to 8, a line-up of cinema screenings and parallel events ...

The impact of Turkey’s economic embargo on the Republic of Cyprus amounts to around one percentage point of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually. According to the data collected ...

The Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery on Saturday. The prime minister’s office said planned trips to Cyprus ...

Five people died and two were missing, after heavy rain burst a river bank in a village near eastern China’s Hangzhou city on Saturday, flooding houses and carrying away ...

Spaniards began voting on Sunday in a potentially close-run general election that could see Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s governing Socialists lose power and a far-right party make up part ...

A fire that broke out in Lythrodontas burned 5,000 square metres of pine trees, agricultural crops and wild vegetation, the forestry department said on Sunday. The agriculture ministry’s department said ...

By Victoria Cooper Why, in a country of more than 330 million people, does it appear that Americans will have to choose between Joe Biden or Donald Trump at the 2024 US ...

An orange weather alert was in force on Sunday for extreme heat, as temperature reaches 44C. The warning for extreme high temperature is valid from 12 to 6pm, the met service ...

Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”. In ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 17: Tourist arrivals in Cyprus experienced a significant increase of 22.7 per cent in June 2023 compared to the same ...

Those songs of summer say it best These days the heat of the summer months is too much for anyone to venture out while the Sun beats down at temperatures ...

THE EUROASIA Interconnector that will link our electricity grid with that of Israel and Greece has run out of funds and the project promoter is seeking assistance from the state ...

Meta (META.O) is releasing a commercial version of its open-source artificial intelligence model Llama, the company said on Tuesday, giving start-ups and other businesses a powerful free-of-charge alternative to ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) this week said it would charge at least 53 per cent more to access new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at ...

We have been hearing about the EuroAsia Interconnector that will connect Cyprus to the power grids of Israel and Greece via submarine power cable, for more than 10 years. A project ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday set new targets for artificial intelligence products including self-driving software and using humanoid robots in factories, though he acknowledged he’s ...

As a British man struggled with the trauma of killing his sick wife, his fate was fraught with uncertainty and upheaval With David Hunter’s court case winding down following ...

Ayia Marina is the only church in Kythrea that remains in relatively good condition, the mayor of the occupied town, Petros Kareklas said on Saturday. The mayor was speaking after ...

The Standing Rapporteur on the missing persons in Cyprus, MEP Isabel Santos met with relatives of the missing during her visit on the island on Saturday. Santos held meetings with ...

Taxpayers can now pay any tax arrears online after submitting their returns electronically, tax inspector Soteris Markidis said on Saturday after 11,500 individuals submitted their declarations for 2022. As of Friday, some 16,000 ...

Aircraft and firefighters from different services responded to a fire that broke out near a residential area in Koilani, Limassol on Saturday evening. The blaze broke out around 5.30pm on ...

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas to repel hundreds of protesters as they tried to get to the Danish Embassy in Baghdad early on Saturday after reports a Koran was ...