Archive 2023

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday raised interest rates for the eighth consecutive time, in line with market expectations, staying on a path of policy tightening, as it continues ...

Ukrainian forces are advancing in southern sectors of their counter-offensive against Russian occupation troops, Ukrainian military officials said on Friday. The latest report on the counter-offensive, as well as an ...

The Public Debt Management Office announced this week the increase in interest rates for six-year government bonds for individual investors, starting with the third series (October) of 2023. Applications for these ...

President Vladimir Putin said that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that ...

By Maria Demertzis Using a strategy of de-risking to deal with an increasingly fragmented world makes good economic sense. President von der Leyen first launched the strategy in a speech ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Erdogan won a third term as Turkey’s president after soundly defeating his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in a run-off election on May 28, with 52.2 per cent of the ...

Shareholders of Japanese automaker Toyota rejected a resolution urging greater disclosure of its climate lobbying on Wednesday, voting down the first investor proposal to come before the automaker’s annual ...

The government has increased the rent allowance provided to those living in condemnable refugee housing in Limassol by €200, citing the difficult housing conditions prevailing in the district. The beneficiaries of ...

It was reassuring to hear some voices publicly question President Nikos Christodoulides’ vague utterances about the Cyprus problem during the speech he gave at the European Parliament on Tuesday morning. ...

Uber (UBER.N) said this week that it will shut its food delivery business in Italy and exit Israel, where it has not built sufficient market share. The moves were “...

“Only human creators are eligible” for the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy declared on Friday, as the body that grants the world’s most recognized music awards seeks to curb ...

Meta Platforms-ownedMETA.OFacebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 12,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook, while over 6,600 users ...

LIV Golf League CEO Greg Norman and his wife Kirsten Norman are being sued by a family in Florida accusing them of negligence that led to an underage girl being ...

The U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top-secret military intelligence records online will appear in a federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday for his arraignment on some of ...

Women need a space and a voice so that female role models can be created at all levels, Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Friday. Speaking at the conference ‘...

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U....

Italy on Friday alerted Greece to a vessel holding dozens of migrants sailing off the southern coastal town of Pylos, two sources said, just two days after an overcrowded fishing ...

Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld an asylum-seeker pact between Canada and the United States but sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether the contested ...

A duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile some 72 million years ago, a new study revealed on Friday. Scientists have dubbed the ...

The new Vice President of Turkey Cevdet Yilmaz, will make a one-day visit to the north on Sunday. Turkey’s Vice-Presidential office announced that Yilmaz will visit memorials to Cyprus’...

Lawyer Panayiotis Kleovoulou, who led an attack against a gathering of left-wing organisations at the Limassol public university in 2017, was sentenced to ten months in jail on Friday. The 63-year-old ...

The expansion and renovation of the neonatal intensive care unit of Makarios children’s hospital, amounting to over €5.5 million, is underway, state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Friday. Okypy ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken goes to Beijing this weekend with expectations low that he will make headway on the long list of disputes between the United States ...

The state should bear the cost of waste management rather than the public, deputies from the House environment and audit committees concluded on Friday, after a joint visit at the ...