Archive 2023

The ongoing issue of foreclosures will be raised again Thursday before the House plenum in the last legislative session before the summer recess, with the postponement of the debate presented ...

Ukrainian wild card Elina Svitolina, having dismissed four Grand Slam champions during her fairytale run to the Wimbledon semi-finals following her maternity break, may believe the stars are finally aligning ...

In today’s episode, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the attorney-general’s office in Nicosia on Wednesday night as they decried a “corrupt government [and] corrupt attorney general” over the ...

The busiest summer season is here. As the events calendar unfolds, back-to-back music and arts festivals keep our weekends full. Although the majority of the festivals are happening in July, ...

The fires services responded to 21 fires over 24 hours the service announced on Thursday and issued an urgent warning to the public of extremely heightened fire risk due to the prevailing ...

The imminent move to label aspartame as a possible carcinogen comes after years of advocacy from a leading consumer group in the United States and a handful of cancer scientists ...

Reports on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and the office of good services made by Secretary General Antonio Guterres were released as official documents on Thursday. The ...

The value of properties sold in Cyprus during the second quarter of 2023 reached €1.52 billion, with the market showing signs of being impacted by the increase in interest rates, soaring inflation, ...

Members of the Paphos traffic police on Wednesday night chased and arrested a driver on the coastal road of Geroskipou. According to police, the 25-year-old driver, suspected of involvement in ...

North Korea tested its latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, its state media reported, saying the weapon is the core of its nuclear strike force and a warning ...

The Paphos Water Board announced scheduled water cuts on Thursday in areas of the municipality. According to the announcement the interruptions to supply will happen from 7am until midday for ...

Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said that he and CIA counterpart William Burns had discussed “what to do with Ukraine” in a phone call late last month, Russia’s ...

The coast guard on Thursday morning escorted a new boat of irregular migrants to the safety of the Golden Coast fishing shelter in Protaras. The boat, which had set off ...

A 32-year-old man was remanded for eight-days on Thursday under suspicions he was involved in seven explosives cases, which Limassol police have been examining. According to police, the man, who ...

Employment in the government decreased by 2 per cent in June, mainly driven by the transfer of hourly-paid personnel from the Ministry of Health to the State Health Services Organisation (OKYPY), ...

On Thursday a yellow weather warning is in place from 11am until 6pm, as the “Cleon” heatwave affects the island. Temperatures will rise to 40C in the interior, 38C on ...

The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) this week released a statement welcoming the decisions taken at the 80th meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC80) regarding the revised Greenhouse Gas ...

Global hedge funds not specialising in crypto assets have grown skittish from recent industry turmoil and this has lead to an exit from the sector, a survey showed on Tuesday. ...

The 1480 helpline for cyber safety addressed nearly 50 per cent more incidents in the second quarter of 2023 than it did in the same period in 2022, the education ministry said on Wednesday. ...

A few months ago, there was public outrage after it transpired that President Nicos Christodoulides had appointed as member of the public service commission a man who had a university ...

One of Britain’s leading television news anchors, Huw Edwards, was identified by his wife on Wednesday as the BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a young person thousands of ...

The UN security council expressed its full support for the UN secretary general’s proposal to appoint an envoy for the Cyprus problem to lead further engagement as soon as ...

It was billed as the battle of the 20-year-olds but Carlos Alcaraz pulled rank on his childhood buddy Holger Rune as he doused the Dane’s fireworks to reach the ...

Third seed Daniil Medvedev curtailed American debutant Christopher Eubanks’ extraordinary Wimbledon adventure as he weathered a ferocious storm to come through their quarter-final 6-4 1-6 4-6 7-6(4) 6-1 on Wednesday. ...