Archive 2023

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will meet on Monday evening when they are both set to attend the annual end-of-year reception hosted by the UN Secretary ...

The Met Office on Monday issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms valid from 9am to 5pm. According to the warning, isolated heavy thunderstorms are expected to initially affect the west ...

Several hundred faculty members at Harvard University on Sunday signed a petition asking school administrators to not bend to political pressure to fire the school’s president over her Congressional ...

Argentina libertarian economist Javier Milei took office on Sunday warning in his maiden speech that he had no alternative to a sharp, painful fiscal shock to fix the country’s ...

Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified across Gaza on Monday, fuelling fears flagged by the United Nations at the weekend of a breakdown in public order and a mass exodus ...

Electric vehicle drivers hoping to top up their batteries at one of Repsol’s (REP.MC) 1,600 Spanish charging stations might well be disappointed, with nearly half lying dormant because they ...

Research projects in Europe developed water-surface scanners and better hull designs to tackle shipping accidents. By Tom Cassauwers When one of the world’s largest container ships crashed into the ...

Toyota Motor (7203.T) said this week it would increase its line-up of battery electric vehicles in Europe to six models by 2026 and it expected such vehicles to make up more ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said this week that his company would do its best to supply its artificial intelligence processors to Japan amid extremely high market demand. Japan ...

Marijuana shows promise in treating illnesses ranging from depression and addiction to arthritis and epilepsy. By Vittoria D’Alessio Callie Seaman was 16 when she started smoking cannabis to control her ...

Manchester City proved that talk of their demise was premature as the champions climbed back to within four points of leaders Liverpool in the Premier League with a much-needed 2-1 ...

The Pentakomo operation has lunged from one scandal to another. Now operators have been kicked out the question remains how the facility will continue to operate The continued operation of ...

The World Health Organization chief said on Sunday it will be all but impossible to improve the “catastrophic” health situation in Gaza even as the board passed an emergency WHO ...

Iran said on Sunday that it had begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who is charged with spying for Israel and “corruption on earth,” ...

Police on Sunday said it arrested 33 people living in Cyprus illegally, as part of an operation which unfolded in Nicosia. Procedures to deport them are already underway, police specified. In ...

The memorial of former President Tassos Papadopoulos took place on Sunday, marking 15 years since his death. Members of his family, ministers and MPs attended the service, as did individuals from ...

Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, on Sunday said that Israel was implementing a policy of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza through a war that he said meets the “legal ...

A few quirks, but with the buses in disarray at present, scooters are a viable alternative I am one of a small minority on this island not to own a ...

A 41-year-old was arrested on Sunday after he was caught trying to steal over €100 worth of items from a store in Paphos. Deputy police chief of operations Michalis Nicolaou said ...

Israel helped Cyprus foil an Iranian-ordered attack against Israelis and Jews on the island, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday, as Cypriot authorities remained tight-lipped citing ...

By Stefanos Sofroniou An increasing number of employers are weighing the merits of introducing an occupation pension plan for their employees. Employer contributions towards employees’ pension pots are crucial for ...

NOBODY knows what our Prez did to the deity-general Odysseas to excuse the latter’s manic efforts to wreck poor old Nik II’s carefuly cultivated image as the guy ...

The Rialto Theatre in Limassol has a packed schedule for the rest of December finds ELENI PHILIPPOU A special cultural programme is coming up at Limassol’s Rialto Theatre to ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it had launched explosive drones at an Israeli command position on Sunday and Israeli air strikes hit south Lebanon, as violence prompted by the war in ...