Archive 2023

France faced a seventh day of demonstrations on Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plans amid ongoing rolling strikes which have affected refineries, public transport and garbage ...

Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have agreed terms for their heavyweight unification bout on April 29 at Wembley Stadium in London, a lawyer for Usyk told Reuters on Friday. The two ...

Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China’s premier, the country’s No.2 post, putting the close ally of President Xi Jinping ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy of Cyprus depicts positive features as regards growth, employment and public finances. However, its economic development model requires radical adaptation in order ...

An emotional Mikaela Shiffrin wrote her name in the history books as the most successful Alpine World Cup skier of all time on Saturday after taking a record 87th career ...

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah missed a second-half penalty as his side fell to a 1-0 defeat away at Bournemouth, with Philip Billing’s goal lifting the south-coast side off the ...

Like Cyprus, Guernsey is a tax haven for foreign investors and offshore finance. But the two have something far more important in common than mere money: potatoes! We may have ...

President Nikos Christodoulides agreed on Saturday to a request from Akel to hold a national council meeting to discuss the Cyprus problem. Akel general-secretary Stefanos Stefanou called the president on ...

Oroklini police will begin an investigation to explore to what extent the slurs hurled at a 14-year-old student from Congo can be classed as racist. Larnaca police chief Haris Hadjigiasemi ...

Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis on Friday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets, left billions of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday he would not engage in a blame game over the Cyprus problem, reiterating his view that the EU’s involvement would go a long ...

A 23-year-old man who was believed to be behind the robberies of a Chlorakas kiosk was arrested, police said on Saturday. The robberies took place on March 8 and 10, where the ...

IT specialists were still trying to bring back the land registration website on Saturday, after a hacker attack began on Wednesday evening. The government site has been down since. Land ...

International rating agency Fitch, has upgraded Cyprus’ long-term credit rating by one notch to ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook citing, outperformance of fiscal balance and growth rate as the economy ...

Adding to Limassol’s artistic calendar is a solo exhibition at Gallery 45 which will host work by internationally renowned Cyprus-based Russian Armenian contemporary artist Grigorii Pavlychev. Running between March 24 and ...

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said he was “a little bit surprised” by Roberto Firmino’s decision to leave the club at the end of the season but wants to end ...

A blast hit the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Saturday, police said, killing one person and wounding five a few days after the death of the province’...

A 28-year-old woman was found dead at the Petra tou Romiou site in Paphos on Saturday morning. Officers were alerted to the scene where she was later identified as a ...

NADIA RADZMAN on five cool things you should know about them Each year in February, the United Nations commemorates what probably sounds to many like a strange occasion: World Pulses ...

Almost three-quarters of Cypriots suffer from anxiety or depression, while domestic abuse is on the rise. One local playwright tackles the darkest issues hoping to lighten the load finds Alix ...

As part of its programme Aisthiseis, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation organises a series of free creative workshops for adults and children. Coming up in March are three workshops ...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was attacked outside a restaurant in Athens on Friday night, suffering a broken nose, cuts and bruises. According to the Greek Reporter website, the ...

A gang of around 50 people attacked and beat two others in the tourist area of ​​Germasogeia, while they were in their car, police said on Saturday. The two victims were ...

Russians were by far the largest group of foreign real estate buyers in Cyprus during the first two months of 2023, according to data from the department of lands and surveys, ...