Archive January 2024

Police in Karavas arrested a 50-year-old man on Wednesday evening after he set his own car on fire. The man, who was seven times over the legal alcohol limit to ...

Cyprus’ National Betting Authority on Wednesday reported a total revenue of €259.4 million for the third quarter of 2023, marking a 9 per cent increase from the same period in 2022 and an increase ...

Thursday’s weather is expected to be mostly cloudy with isolated pockets of rain, mostly in the afternoon. Temperatures are expected to rise to a high of 18 degrees Celsius inland ...

Trade union Democratic Labour Federation of Cyprus (Deok) this week called for the immediate convening of the Labour Advisory Body to review the strategy for the employment of third-country nationals. ...

Unilever, the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, struggled to defend fourth-quarter grocery store market share across most of its categories in Europe and the ...

Pay awards from British employers held at their highest sustained level in over 30 years in the last three months of 2023 but deals struck in early 2024 suggest pay growth has peaked, ...

Germany’s economic downturn worsened this month with both manufacturing and services activity contracting, a preliminary survey showed on Wednesday. Underlying data showed a convergence in performance between the two ...

Gay marriage would negate the gospel, Archbishop Georgios said on Wednesday, echoing in his support for the Orthodox Church of Greece’s unanimous synod opinion against gay marriage and adoption ...

The measures to tackle organised crime and football violence gave the government a reason to justify the hiring of more policemen. A day after announcing the measures, new justice and ...

A company in Limassol on Wednesday fell victim to an online scam of over €16,000. According to a police report, an employee of the company disclosed that in December 2023, management entered ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday urged the Lebanese government to take its own measures to control the flow of migrants leaving for Cyprus from the shores of Lebanon. His comments ...

The Cyprus Cup football derby between Apollon and Ael, scheduled to begin at 7pm at Alphamega Stadium in Limassol, was cancelled due to incidents involving both sets of fans. Following ...

The Nicosia district court on Wednesday found a doctor guilty of indecent acts against a patient who filed an official complaint against him back in the summer of 2020. Following a ...

February’s live music scene in the capital will commence with an extraordinary concert by the Apple Hill String Quartet at The Shoe Factory. Four remarkable musicians – Elise Kuder and ...

Singer-songwriter Raye led nominations for the BRIT Awards on Wednesday, setting a new record with seven nominations, while the Rolling Stones and Blur were also recognised for Britain’s pop ...

Ukraine military intelligence said Kyiv was not asked to ensure air space security on Wednesday around the Belgorod area in southern Russia as had been the case during previous prisoner ...

British billionaire Joe Lewis pleaded guilty to U.S. insider trading charges on Wednesday after being accused last year of a scheme that prosecutors said was designed to enrich friends ...

Yemen’s Houthi authorities have ordered U.S. and British staff of the United Nations and Sanaa-based humanitarian organisations to leave the country within a month, a document and a ...

A relative of one of the members of the independent police complaints authority is “involved in organised crime”, it was heard at the House ethics committee on Wednesday. The committee ...

The charge sheet against law commissioner Louiza Christodoulidou Zannetou has been filed to court, where a district judge will have to sign it off before a hearing is set, it ...

The Paphos criminal court sentenced two individuals to seven years in prison on Wednesday after finding them guilty in a case of illegal drug possession with the intent to supply ...

The attorney-general has advised the Registrar of Companies to extend the deadline for businesses updating the records with their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) until the end of March. Under a ...

Four months after her defeat in the U.S. Open final, Aryna Sabalenka will have the opportunity to avenge that heartbreak when she meets Coco Gauff in the semi-finals of ...

A UN training centre sheltering tens of thousands of displaced people was hit on Wednesday, causing “mass casualties” as buildings blazed, a senior U.N. relief official said as Israeli ...