Archive 2023

A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to 10 months in prison for spreading disinformation, handing down the first jail term under a new law that critics say threatens free ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday’s shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy. Rescuers have so far confirmed ...

Newly sworn in President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said finding solutions to solve the Cyprus problem would be the absolute priority of his administration. His first words in the post ...

A total of 1,349 traffic violations were recorded between February 24 and 28, the police said on Tuesday. Of the registered offences, 738 were for driving above the speed limit, 99 for drink driving, 86 for ...

Total rainfall in February was 75 per cent of average for the month, preliminary data released by the met office on Tuesday showed. The average rainfall for February is 81.6 mm, while ...

A 54-year-old man has been arrested after he fatally wounded the pit bull of his neighbour with a knife because the animal allegedly attacked his own dog. The incident was ...

A 40-year-old man found guilty of people smuggling migrants to Cyprus was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in jail by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday. The decision was made six ...

A woman developed large bedsores after she was hospitalised for a month and her wounds remained untreated, doctor Marios Kyriazis claimed on Tuesday in another effort to show the “shortcomings” ...

Bird trapping with nets has almost halved in Cyprus when comparing autumn 2022 with the previous year, BirdLife Cyprus announced on Tuesday, calling the results “promising”. The figures reveal a 49 per ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in Northern Ireland and then met with his own lawmakers on Tuesday to sell his new deal with the European Union to ease post-Brexit ...

Nikos Christodoulides was officially sworn in on Tuesday as the eighth president of the Republic in a short ceremony held at the House of Representatives. Arriving at parliament shortly after 11...

Liverpool will play Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fourth time in 11 games and manager Juergen Klopp said they will look to get their Premier League season back on track as they ...

Despite pledging that his cabinet would be made up of new faces, half of which would be women, new President Nikos Christodoulides named a council of ministers that did not ...

Low-cost carrier Wizz Air on Tuesday announced a new route from Larnaca to Abu Dhabi. The route will become operational on July 3 with triweekly (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) flights ...

Melco Cyprus, operator of Cyprus Casinos (C2) and the upcoming integrated resort City of Dreams Mediterranean, Cyprus’ first integrated resort, celebrated its fifth anniversary since opening the first licensed establishment ...

By Sanam Mahoozi In Iran this winter, hospital emergency rooms have been full, schools regularly closed, and many people unable to work or even leave their homes due to toxic ...

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira The factory worker grabbed a handful of worn-out shoes and fed them into roaring machines that chopped and crushed and transformed them into “eco-rubber” – ...

The Biden administration announced measures to crack down on child labor on Monday amid a steep rise in violations and investigative reports by Reuters and other news outlets on illegal ...

The electricity authority of Cyprus (EAC) was fined €8,000 by the Nicosia district court after the Department of Labour Inspection found it had violated occupational health and safety at work, the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the FSB domestic security service on Tuesday to step up its activity to counter what he said was increasing espionage and sabotage against Russia by ...

Do you sometimes worry what life is all about? Suffer from ‘panic attacks’? Feel continually anxious? DR VASILIOS SILIVISTRIS looks at stress Stress is, simply put, the adverse reaction to ...

While negative trends cover many crypto headlines, three projects looking to turn the tables are Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA) and Orbeon Protocol (ORBN). After surging in value throughout January, Ripple (...

House President Annita Demetriou on Tuesday wished new President Nikos Christodoulides “strength and endurance” in the island’s top post during a ceremony at parliament. Demetriou said the House remains ...

Written to be performed and often based on social and political themes of the times, slam poetry is on the rise in Cyprus finds a finger snapping ELENI PHILIPPOU “Let’...