Archive 2023

As we stepped inside the dimly-lit, wood-laden interior of the renovated, stone-built, erstwhile traditional Cypriot house that is the Cicchetteria, I thought of how fitting it was to be inside ...

Karim Benzema struck a hat-trick as Real Madrid thrashed arch-rivals and league leaders Barcelona 4-0 to reach the Copa del Rey final in stunning fashion on Wednesday. Barca, bidding for ...

Cyprus music lovers are in for a treat this week as unique musical performances with invited musicians from abroad will tour Nicosia, Paphos and Limassol. Yaala Ballin, accompanied by Armenian ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides arrived in Egypt for a two-day visit on Wednesday afternoon where he discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel ...

A 35-year-old man was remanded for five days by the Paphos district court on Thursday on the suspicion of importing drugs, police said. According to police, the investigation began after ...

Panagiota Polykarpou is the Co-founder of Be an Ally Foundation. Currently, she is a master’s student at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, studying Social Innovation and Management, ...

Cyprus recorded a €300 million surplus from operating and investing activities in 2022, according to the government’s fiscal report for the previous fiscal year, which was recently submitted for review to ...

Mooky token and its mission Mooky is a community-driven token that is shaking up the world of cryptocurrency with its focus on environmental sustainability. The mission of Mooky is to ...

France braced for a new round of nationwide protests and strikes on Thursday after a meeting between the prime minister and labour unions failed to break a political stalemate over ...

The Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) this week said that Cypriot banks have persisted with low deposit rates despite the ECB recently hiking the interest rate by 0.5 per ...

The House Price Index in Cyprus fell by 4 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, falling to 108.03 points, down from 112.51, according to a preliminary estimate ...

Exxon Mobil Corp’s (XOM.N) Low Carbon business has the potential to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue and outperform the company’s traditional oil and gas ...

Walmart Inc (WMT.N) on Tuesday said it expects about 65 per cent of its stores to be serviced by automation by the end of its fiscal year 2026, just days after ...

Three hundred locations have been identified and are awaiting excavation, Greek Cypriot representative on the committee on missing persons (CMP) Leonidas Pantelides said on Wednesday. In all, 900 cases are still ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has kept his election promise to make the bank employees who took voluntary early retirement eligible for unemployment benefit. The government has submitted a bill custom-made for ...

Newcastle United bolstered their place in the Premier League’s top four as Callum Wilson’s double helped them to a 5-1 defeat of relegation-haunted West Ham United on Wednesday. ...

The United States is working through a formal process to determine whether a Wall Street Journal reporter’s detention by Russia is “wrongful”, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said his two-day visit to Egypt has both a symbolic and substantial meaning, as it reflects a clear political will to build on the strategic ...

International law enforcement agencies have seized a sprawling dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday, in a multinational crackdown dubbed “Operation Cookie ...

A 31-year-old woman was remanded for six days on Wednesday to facilitate investigations into a case of drugs smuggling and the intention to supply, Nicosia police said. Police were alerted ...

A man found dead on Wednesday afternoon near the area of Kourris had been reported missing last week, Limassol police said. The body was spotted in early afternoon by a ...

Cristiano Ronaldo continues to find the net in Saudi Arabia, scoring two goals to reach 11 in nine league games – but still can’t step out of the shadow of team ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited neighbouring Poland on Wednesday and thanked the country for its “historic” help, saying it should become a key partner in the vast reconstruction effort needed ...

The husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon washeld by police on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the funding of the governing pro-independence Scottish National Party before later ...