Archive 2023

Just a few days remain until the 21st edition of the Cyprus Film Days International Festival lifts the curtain and a special opening ceremony is planned. The festival will officially ...

So far there has been no information about Cypriots stranded in Sudan, according to foreign ministry spokesperson, Theodoros Gotsis. In a post on Twitter on Monday, Gotsis said the ministry’...

Police identified and seized approximately 415,000 pyrotechnic devices since the beginning of the year, of which 413,000 were firecrackers, police announced on Monday. This is the largest amount seized in the last ...

People aged over 65 who live in cities tend to feel they have better health than their age group as a whole, with the share for Cyprus being a little lower ...

On Monday the weather will be sunny and clear with occasional high clouds. Winds will be north-easterly to south-easterly, turning south-westerly to north-westerly in late afternoon, weak to moderate, up ...

Akamas region’s bird and flora information centre has been completed, the Paphos municipality has announced. The aim of the centre is to showcase Akamas region wildlife as well as ...

Switzerland’s tradition of dependable consensus politics has taken a battering after the government used an emergency law to push through a state-backed mega-merger of UBS (UBSG.S) and Credit ...

The European Commission has just published the 2022 edition of the ‘EU Regional Competitiveness Index’. Published every three years since 2010, the Index has been measuring ‘the ability of a region to ...

The average density of litter on Cyprus beaches is 0.2 items per square metre, a bi-communal study showed. The data on beach litter, available from the European Marine Observation and Data ...

Leading investment management company, VGI Partners, recently released its 2022 investor letter, revealing that it was making some adjustments to the way it assesses risk and reward. However, investors were left ...

Sales at Birkin bag maker Hermes (HRMS.PA) rose 23 per cent in the first quarter, above market expectations, as wealthy shoppers in China and Europe splurged on luxury fashion and ...

The US warship USS Milius sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in what the US Navy described on Monday as a “routine” transit, just days after China ended its ...

Sudan’s army appeared to gain the upper hand on Sunday in a bloody power struggle with rival paramilitary forces, pounding their bases with air strikes, said witnesses. At least 97 ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) on Friday slashed prices for its electric vehicles in Europe, Israel and Singapore, expanding a global discount drive it began in China in January while raising ...

Employers are expected to sound the alarm over labour unrest and uncertainty currently plaguing the economy when they meet on April 25 and will be looking to President Nikos Christodoulides for ...

Arsenal’s Premier League title jitters returned in a potentially costly 2-2 draw at West Ham United on Sunday as for the second week in a row they threw away ...

Thousands of Czechs demonstrated in Prague’s central square on Sunday, calling on the government to quit as they protested over high inflation and energy prices. Police did not give ...

Sixteen people were killed and nine were injured in a Dubai residential building fire on Saturday, local newspapers said on Sunday citing the Dubai Civil Defence. The fire engulfed the ...

Sudan’s military launched air strikes on a paramilitary force’s base near the capital in a bid to reassert control over the country on Sunday following clashes in which ...

You know it is spring when arts & crafts markets begin to make an appearance. In May, several local organisers are planning one or two-day craft markets to celebrate spring ...

While residents of Cyprus are among the most multilingual on the continent, those born and raised in Britain are the least. Alix Norman finds out more Sixty five per cent ...

Great films but little local content as annual festival returns says Preston Wilder Cyprus Film Days (CFD) is back, and the best way to approach it is voraciously. Get a €30 ...

Jammed in between the school break, Easter craft workshops and spring markets are several live music nights – a steady, weekly tradition for many of the island’s bars. This April, ...

In Northern Ireland with a problem similar to the Cyprob, the referendum question on the Good Friday Agreement was much simpler Last week President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference in ...