Archive 2023

With Manchester United’s slender survival hopes in the Champions League hinging on beating Bayern Munich on Tuesday, humiliation a few days earlier by Bournemouth hardly inspired confidence. Yet despite ...

If 2022 was the year that “broke bitcoin”, 2023 has been the year of trauma recovery. Bitcoin has bounced pluckily in the face of depressed crypto prices, low trading volumes and tough ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides met the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday at an event a Ledra Palace hosted by the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus (...

Four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in a drone strike during an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, the Palestinian health ministry ...

The personnel of the deputy ministry of social welfare are conducting a voluntary blood donation drive in collaboration with the Blood Donation Centre to bolster the blood bank in anticipation ...

Tuesday’s weather forecast indicates partly cloudy skies with intermittent periods of mostly cloudy conditions. Isolated thunderstorms are expected, starting in the western and northern regions and gradually extending to ...

The Paphos municipality has filed a complaint with the police regarding the illegal use of a website for reserving sports fields claiming to be owned by the municipality. In a ...

Cyprus National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre, in conjunction with the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), this week announced the launch of a new support scheme that aims to strengthen cybersecurity in ...

Hunger was worsening among Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip, aid agencies said, as the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on Tuesday on an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in ...

Alpha Bank Cyprus on Monday released a statement underlining its prominent participation at the 11th Banking Forum & FinTech Expo, where Miltos Michaelas, the bank’s CEO, represented the organisation. ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Monday released a report revealing that a total of 33 bounced cheques, valued at €60,851, were issued in November 2023. This has led to the registration ...

Cyprus witnessed a remarkable 58.5 per cent surge in total registrations of motor vehicles in November 2023, compared to the same month of the previous year, while also marking an annual increase ...

The unemployment rate in Cyprus plunged to its lowest level in 53 quarters, settling at 5.8 per cent of the labour force in the third quarter of 2023, marking a significant decline, according ...

As part of the “Pandoteira” project, an initiative aimed at enhancing the Natura 2000 network in Cyprus, volunteers organised the release of barn owls and the placement of artificial nests in ...

The appointment of the former foreign minister of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, as the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy to Cyprus was finalised on Sunday night, when Turkish Cypriot ...

Israel’s defence minister on Monday said his country has no intention of staying permanently in the Gaza Strip and that it was open to discussing alternatives about who would ...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans to present a law banning e-cigarettes and vapes before he leaves office in 2024, he said on Monday, after the supreme court overruled his ...

Several dozen activists calling for the United States to push for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas briefly protested in a U.S. Senate office building on Monday before ...

The U.S. special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat asked the Supreme Court on Monday to launch a fast-track review of ...

French lawmakers sent the government’s immigration bill back to the drawing board on Monday in a surprise move that cut short debates at the lower house and dealt a ...

The Biden administration is in discussions with Nvidia Corp NVDA.O about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips to China but emphasized that it cannot sell its most advanced semiconductors ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday evening at an event a Ledra Palace hosted by the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus (Unficyp), in what ...

The House human rights committee said on Monday expressed concerns over the government’s delays in creating a juvenile detainee centre. MPs were also worried over the way preparation and ...

The House finance committee on Monday green-lit the unlocking of some 400 jobs in the public sector, as requested by the government. Despite their initial hemming and hawing, the majority of ...