Archive 2023

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday cautioned the public to watch out for an alleged entity operating under the name “Universal Banks” and using the website: www.universalbanks....

In today’s episode, foreclosures have been suspended until the end of October, while a special judicial procedure will be created to deal with non-performing loans, cabinet decided on Wednesday. ...

Police on Friday were investigating the circumstances under which two people were seriously injured after their quad bike overturned in Paralimni. Two 23-year-olds were riding the bike at 7am on ...

Police are on Friday were investigating an incident of a Molotov cocktail being thrown outside a pizza shop in Limassol. According to police statement, the device was thrown outside the ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he would have a veto over any use of the tactical nuclear weapons that Russia is stationing on his territory, and goaded the West’...

Six people have died and at least 68 have been injured following an overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan, Italian emergency services said on Friday. Luca Cari, spokesman for ...

Public concern over cost-of-living is mounting despite state assurances that the ending of relief measures was warranted and necessary. Recently released data appeared to validate consumers’ fears, that the abolition ...

According to ABC News, Twitter has sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter over Meta’s new Thread application. Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, ...

The United States plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help it battle Russian invaders, U.S. officials said on, a move opposed by human rights groups but which ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis described Saudi Arabia as a potentially significant tourism market for Cyprus. The minister’s comments were made during his visit to Saudi Arabia this ...

If guts and grit win grand slam titles just hand the Wimbledon trophy to Andy Murray right now. Of course it doesn’t work like that though and the Scot ...

Police on Friday said 3,000kg of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) were seized from a warehouse in Limassol. According to police spokesman Christos Andreou, 24 bottles of the controlled substance were found ...

The number of registered unemployed individuals in Cyprus in June 2023 reached its lowest level in the past 17 months, according to seasonally adjusted data released this week by the state’s ...

On Friday after dispersal of local thin fog the weather will become mostly clear. Increased afternoon clouds may bring showers in the mountains, while later in the day, temporarily increased ...

Cyprus-US relations have reached new heights and are no longer viewed solely through the lens of the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. The president was speaking at ...

The CYENS Centre of Excellence and the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) this week signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of further developing joint activities in the fields of ...

Retail sales in the eurozone were unchanged in May, Eurostat said on Thursday, as increased spending on non-food items offset declines for food and automotive fuel. Retail sales volumes in ...

A gaming website and two individuals have been banned from Cyprus Comic Con, in a social media war that has culminated into death threats, it emerged on Friday. The two ...

Nothing contained in the European Commission’s latest report on Rule of Law, regarding Cyprus came as a surprise. It was more of the same with some faint praise for ...

Bitcoin hit its highest level in 13 months on Thursday rising as much as 3.28 per cent to $31,500. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has recently found support due to plans by fund ...

Sexual harassment committed by civil servants will from now on be classed as a standalone offence and investigated differently to other disciplinary offences, under a law parliament passed on Thursday. ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “forcibly seized” a commercial ship in international waters in the Gulf on Thursday and the vessel was possibly involved in smuggling, a U.S. Navy spokesperson ...

Amazon’s AMZN.O $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot IRBT.O may reduce competition and strengthen Amazon’s position as online marketplace provider, EU antitrust regulators warned ...

Britain said on Thursday it would create a new sanctions regime for Iran, giving the UK greater powers to target decision makers, including those involved in weapons proliferation and threats ...