Archive 2023

In this episode, buying petrol in the north will not be penalised provided it is not for commercial purposes, the customs department said yesterday as they attempted to clarify confusions ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday attended the annual memorial service held for the thirteen people who died in explosions at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari twelve years ago. “...

Cases of illegal drug importation are an upward trend, deputy drug squad chief, Stelios Sergides said on Tuesday. The police statement came following confiscation by officers of another stash of ...

European airports are in the midst of another busy summer as passenger numbers globally recover to pre-pandemic levels, while airline and airport staff continue to negotiate on wages. The travel ...

Russia launched an overnight air strike on Kyiv in early hours on Tuesday, Ukraine’s military said, just hours before the start of the NATO summit in Lithuania that is ...

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez on Monday said there was a temporary “lull” in Turkey’s “aggression against its neighbors” and said he is in talks ...

Pay pressures in Britain’s labour market cooled further in June, according to a survey of recruiters published on Monday that could help ease some of the Bank of England’...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Monday announced that it will be hosting a sustainable tourism conference on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, at 17:00. The event, titled “A Journey towards ...

On Tuesday the weather will be clear. Winds will be mainly northerly to north-easterly, light to moderate, up to 4 Beaufort and later locally south-westerly to north-westerly, of the same intensity. ...

Iraq and French oil major TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) on Monday signed a long-delayed $27 billion energy deal that aims to increase oil production and boost the country’s capacity to produce ...

Embattled by a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crackdown, crypto companies are making a renewed push on Capitol Hill to drum up support for legislation they hope will rein ...

The number of Iranians, Russians – and more surprisingly – Greek Cypriots arriving in the north by air and sea has seen a stark increase in the first five months of 2023 compared ...

The Customs Department has always been notorious for its heavy-handedness in dealing with people. Customs officials always interpret complex bureaucratic rules in any way they please, relying on people’s ...

Top cryptocurrency bitcoin could reach $50,000 this year and $120,000 by the end of 2024 Standard Chartered (STAN.L) said on Monday, predicting the jump in its price could encourage bitcoin ‘miners’ to ...

A Russian attack on a humanitarian aid distribution point in southeastern Ukraine killed seven people, emergency services said on Monday, and two people were killed by Russian shelling in the ...

Top seed Carlos Alcaraz roared into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a formidable display of firepower to down big-serving Italian dark horse Matteo Berrettini on Monday. The Spaniard was beaten to ...

Fearless Dane Holger Rune’s stature in world tennis continued to grow on Monday as he stayed calm and collected in the face of adversity to ride out a 3-6 7...

Highlights of the eighth day at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Monday (times GMT): Spanish world number one Carlos Alcaraz fought back from a set down to defeat Italian Matteo ...

Efforts surrounding the Cyprus problem are garnering a positive response, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday night. He sought to stress that he has observed “positive developments” reiterating the government’...

North Korea accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights and warned that, while Pyongyang was exercising restraint, such flights may be shot down. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said it was not goal to “convince anyone” over the foreclosures and non-performing loan bills, after a meeting with MPs at the presidential palace on Monday night. ...

Allegations that an unnamed BBC presenter paid a young person to pose for explicit photos are “rubbish”, a lawyer acting for the young person has told the broadcaster in a ...

“If the administration chooses to override the F-16 veto, I will oppose it and there will be consequences,” Senator and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez ...

A 29-year-old man who died at Aphrodite’s Rock in Paphos on Sunday drowned, an autopsy revealed on Monday. Carried out by state pathologist Orthodoxos Orthodoxou, the findings were in ...