Archive January 2024

In the end, the cabinet reshuffle, which had dominated the news all last week and caused a lot of negative press for the president, took place earlier than anyone expected. ...

Boeing’s latest 737 MAX crisis deepened after United Airlines and Alaska Airlines said they had found loose parts on multiple grounded MAX 9 aircraft, raising new concerns among industry experts about ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked several New York City bridges and a tunnel on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire in the three-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict before police arrested hundreds of them and ...

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to give a new impetus to his second mandate ahead of European parliament elections and the Paris ...

EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson will visit Cyprus on Tuesday to discuss migration management as well as the implementation of the EU Action Plan for the Eastern Mediterranean ...

Pressure grew on Israel on Monday from its staunch ally the United States and from Middle East powers to ease up on its assault on Gaza as its forces inflicted ...

The UN Secretary-General’s newly-appointed personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, is expected to arrive this week in New York, where she is to hold a series of ...

Police said on Monday they arrested 13 persons for illegal employment and illegal work during sweeps at several premises across the island over the weekend. The police checks took place in ...

Political party CTP in the north on Monday finally weighed in on the arrest of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat, whose wife is a CTP ‘MP’, following Kursat’s arrest ...

Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer, one of football’s greatest players who captained his country to World Cup glory in 1974 and won the tournament again as manager in 1990, has died at ...

Journalists should not be targeted in conflict flashpoints, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Cyprus said on Monday, following the death of three more journalists in Gaza a ...

The Visit is a tragicomic 1956 play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt now being presented in Cyprus by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation. Translated to Greek and directed by Neophytos Taliotis, ...

A man appeared in court on Monday accused of stealing a lorry and driving it to the north but told the court he was “too drunk to be able to ...

The roads being built in Akamas are not wider than originally planned, the outgoing head of the forestry department Charalambos Alexandrou said on Monday, in a swansong statement on the ...

Gaza health officials reported the highest daily death toll so far this year on Monday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured Arab states before heading for Israel ...

The short-term outlook for the economy is a positive one, but risks could loom in the longer term, the Fiscal Council said on Monday. Michalis Persianis, chair of the Fiscal ...

A 44-year-old man suspected of manslaughter following a car accident that killed four people on New Year’s day will be sent to criminal court for trial, Limassol District Court ...

Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne used his time away from football during to a post-operation recovery period to reconnect with his family, the midfielder said after his first game ...

The United States and its allies in the Group of Seven are seeking a quick way out of the military phase of the Gaza conflict, Italy said on Monday, as ...

EUREKA Massalias has always kept up with the latest fashion trends, tied to the brand’s care for clothes and preserving garments in their original beauty. Nevertheless, through fashion and ...

The two men who killed 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city are still on the run, police inspector Huseyin Zaifer told a court in the north on Monday. ...

There is “no disagreement” between President Nikos Christodoulides and political party leaders on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. Speaking after a National Council meeting held ...

An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters. The security sources identified him as Wissam ...

President Nikos Christodoulides replaced four of his ministers on Monday in a partial reshuffle that had been widely anticipated. Effective from Wednesday, Vasilis Palmas will take over from Michalis Giorgallas ...