Archive January 2024

Tourism revenue in Cyprus surged to nearly €3 billion during the January-November 2023 period, indicating a remarkable 22.5 per cent annual increase, according to a report released on Wednesday by the state’s ...

Research-driven environmental policies, and new technologies and services to support their effective implementation and monitoring, are essential for a timely and concerted approach to adapt to and mitigate the effects ...

President of the Cyprus Institute Stavros Malas this week presented an innovative proposal for the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Smart and Sustainable Farming (SMARTFARM) to the House ...

It happens to everyone eventually. One minute you can’t get enough of each other, and the next, you can’t wait to get away from each other. Moving on ...

Defendants in the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos requested to be tried at the Nicosia Criminal Court instead of Limassol, only to have their request denied by the courts, it was ...

Police arrested two men, 20 and 28, suspects in a drug bust at Paphos airport, where police found 33 kg of cannabis in their suitcases. The Ykan drug squad worked together with customs ...

Can we find a way back to spontaneity and self-fulfillment at a time where almost everything is presented as curated content? Nowadays, it feels like everything is content. We’ve ...

The labour ministry on Wednesday announced it had completed its implementation of measures to ensure all retirees receive their first pension payment within 30 days of retirement. Moves to accelerate pension ...

Cyprus is among the ten most xenophobic countries, a study released by the University of Cyprus Centre for Field Studies (UCFS) on Wednesday revealed. Compiled by Dr Harris Psaltis, the ...

French and Belgian farmers set up dozens of blockades on highways and on access roads to a major container port on Wednesday to press governments to ease environmental rules and ...

Israeli forces carried out air strikes in Gaza on Wednesday as the militant Palestinian group Hamas studied a new proposal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in ...

A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer says he believes he has found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane, which disappeared nine decades ago, on the bottom of ...

Inclement weather caused chaos in the north on Tuesday night, with heavy rain and storms causing flooding and landslides across the island’s northern third. Particularly heavy rain fell in ...

Since debuting in September 2022, Nissan’s innovative yet unique e-POWER system has reached over 100,000 Continental customers, with the Qashqai and X-Trail introduced in Europe simultaneously. To date, 65,367 Qashqai and 34,663 X-Trail, ...

The electricity authority’s technical union (Sepaik) is holding a series of island wide meetings this week, gearing up for possible strike action if long standing demands are not met, ...

By Tom Cleaver and Andria Kades Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday accused the United Nations Security Council of holding a “biased attitude” after it ratified Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ ...

Within the framework of their sponsorship cooperation, a delegation of the Cyprus Olympic Committee (COC), led by its President, George Chrysostomou, visited recently the headquarters of the Bank of Cyprus (...

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Nicosia on Wednesday welcomed the UN Security Council’s unanimous adoption of a resolution extending the peacekeeping (Unficyp) force in Cyprus, which also urged both sides to work towards returning ...

The University of Nicosia has been selected as a PRME Champion for the 2024-25 cohort. This prestigious recognition is awarded by the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), a United ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli is to face a challenge for the leadership of his party the YDP at its forthcoming party conference in February. ‘MP’ Talip Atalay ...

Two dead bodies have been found washed up on the coast near Ayios Epiktitos in the space of 24 hours. The first body was found at around 8.15am on Tuesday, and ...

Rafael Nadal’s championship point winning racket from his 2007 French Open final victory over Roger Federer was sold for more than $118,000 at an auction this week, ranking among the highest-priced ...

Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) shrunk 3.7 per cent in the fourth quarter, government data showed on Wednesday, marking a second consecutive quarter of contraction, as a decline ...