Archive 2023

Accessibility of Gesy providers for people with disabilities is not a given By Efi Xanthou On October 27, 2022, a report from Gesy’s oversight ombudsperson was distributed to various government departments ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, in reviewing his first 100 days, that from the start of his presidency, his immediate priority was to initiate actions to seek a leading role ...

New Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz was due to arrive in the north on Sunday evening to inspect the work at the new terminal at Tymbou (Ercan) airport, which reports ...

In view of the farmers’ protest in Nicosia on Monday, police have announced some road closures in the capital. Around 10.30am tomorrow the demonstrators in their tractors will move along ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For more than a century, oil has retained its international position as the main source of energy, utilised, among other things, for fuelling vehicles, ...

Cyprus has double the number of new patients starting dialysis each year Cyprus records one of the highest numbers in terms of its population in new patients requiring kidney dialysis ...

At least 17 people were shot and wounded during a street party outside Chicago in the US state of Illinois on Saturday night, reports said. The shooting happened in a suburb ...

Israel’s nationalist-religious government on Sunday tabled plans to approve thousands of building permits in the occupied West Bank, despite U.S. pressure to halt settlement expansion that Washington sees ...

The fourth annual memorial service for former president, Demetris Christofias, was held on Sunday, attended by President Nikos Christodoulides and other officials. Addressing the church service at the Ayia Sophia ...

Despite earthquakes, trainwrecks, inflation and a pandemic, political leaderships in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus remain basically unchanged Kyriakos Mitsotakis triumphed in the first round of the Greek elections on May 21, ...

The European Union is speeding up arms deliveries to Ukraine in support of the country’s counter offensive against Russian forces, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Sunday in ...

The Larnaca court on Sunday remanded a woman aged 37 for four days as a suspect allegedly for the possession and distribution of child pornography. Information was received by police from ...

Israel, due to estimated shortfalls in domestic electricity production in the coming years, is keen on seeing the creation of the electricity interconnector with Cyprus, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said ...

U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp INTC.O will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, calling it the largest-ever international investment in ...

By Sarah Vivienne Bentley and Claire Naughtin The launch of ever-capable large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 has sparked much interest over the past six months. However, trust in ...

Senior British minister Michael Gove on Sunday described a video showing a party at the ruling Conservative Party’s headquarters during a lockdown in 2020 as “terrible”, as COVID rule-breaking gatherings ...

Turkey’s direct interventions in the north of Cyprus are putting at risk the prospects for the resumption of Cyprus talks, European Parliament (EP) President Roberta Metsola was quoted as ...

The SEC’s crypto market regulation threatens many top crypto coins, as the market is treated differently from other financial markets. Recent actions from the SEC have unknowingly triggered the ...

THE RETIRED Nik loved grand gestures. When Odysseas demanded that the interior ministry hand him over 20 files relating to ‘the citizenship by buying a grossly overpriced house scheme,’ and was ...

They are a small price to pay for incorruptible democracy that allows them to prosper Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are rare birds. They are big beasts politically, but flawed ...

By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos As the date of the Nato summit on July 11 in Vilnius approaches, the question of Sweden’s accession to the alliance is gaining currency because of ...

A father and son aged 56 and 27 respectively chased down and tried to apprehend a burglar they spotted on CCTV after he broke into their Paphos shop that sells eyeglasses but ...

The death toll from flooding following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam has risen to 16 in Ukraine, Kyiv officials said, while Russian officials said 29 people have died in territories that ...

Police have warned the public in the Nicosia district to expect a series of loud explosions in the area of Analyondas until 20pm on Sunday as they destroy the thousands ...