Archive 2023

Global diesel margins have slumped by about half since February, dragging on refiners’ profits, as Russian exports continue despite sanctions, helping output from China and India reach all-time highs in ...

The first flight that arrived from Sudan to Larnaca was welcomed on Tuesday evening by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Constantinos Kombos. According to an announcement by the ministry, the minister ...

The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the “mastermind” behind a suicide attack at Kabul’s international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of ...

The general secretary of the labour union PEO Sotiroula Charalambous this week announced that the union will meet with the Labour Minister on Friday to have a discussion over the ...

The Cyprus IT Enterprises Association (CITEA), a member of the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev), announced this week that it held a meeting with the new Deputy Minister of Research, ...

First-quarter job opportunities in London’s financial sector plunged by almost a third year-on-year, recruiter Morgan McKinley said on Tuesday, as firms struggle with economic and geopolitical headwinds. The collapse ...

What do you get when you cross cryptocurrencies with artificial intelligence? A seemingly sentient bitcoin that codes itself in the style of Japanese haikus? Alas not, though you do get ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will travel to Brussels today to discuss the Action Plan for the Eastern Mediterranean and present a package of actions and propose measures for managing increased ...

Two government measures for helping people cope with inflation are in the pipeline – reduction of VAT on basic consumer goods and the creation of a shopping basket app that will ...

Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting “Day O” in his 1950s hit song “Banana Boat” before turning to political activism, has died ...

The world’s top central banks are cutting the frequency of their dollar liquidity operations with the US Federal Reserve from May, sending the clearest signal yet that last month’...

The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday, ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, but said no one is talking about peace in what he called an “insane war.” ...

Ed Sheeran appeared in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday as a copyright trial began which alleges the British pop star ripped off the classic Marvin Gaye tune “Let’s Get ...

Britain launched a large-scale evacuation of its citizens from Sudan on Tuesday, joining other nations racing to get their people out of the North African country after its warring factions ...

The judge in former President Donald Trump’s rape case ordered lawyers at the start of a civil trial on Tuesday to keep their clients and witnesses from making public ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday indicated they would reject the president’s referral of a bill they passed in late March which provides that Turkish Cypriot properties in the south must undergo ...

Parliamentarians on Tuesday censured the state for refusing to provide financial assistance to nurses who also happen to be designated as displaced persons, apparently on the grounds that they became ...

Japanese startup ispace 9348.T assumed failure in its attempt to make the first private moon landing on Tuesday as engineers struggled to regain contact with the company’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 (...

Communities hosting large numbers of migrants and asylum seekers gave out another ‘SOS’ on Tuesday, complaining of rising crime, squatting and general nuisance. At the House ad hoc committee on ...

The ‘Movement Against Foreclosures’ on Tuesday expressed its disappointment at the outcome of the House finance committee the previous day, requesting the protection of borrowers within a specific framework. Deputies ...

Trade union Isotita has called on Tuesday for a freeze on raises and for stipends given for working shifts to be given to civil service employees. As the union stated ...

Cyprus and Greece have important roles to play in ensuring there are adequate energy reserves, House Speaker Annita Demetriou said on Tuesday, at the conference of EU parliament speakers (EUSC) ...

A 19-year-old man was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for assisting migrants enter Cyprus illegally. In a written statement from the police said that the man had helped ...