Archive January 2024

Will they, won’t they? U.S. regulators are keeping crypto players on the edge of their seats as they weigh whether to give their blessing to bitcoin exchange-traded funds (...

Information reported by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) shows a change in the country’s trade balance for January to November 2023, indicating a considerable increase in the deficit by €962.3 million ...

U.S. and UK forces shot down 21 drones and missiles fired by Yemen-based Houthis on Tuesday into the Southern Red Sea towards international shipping lanes, the U.S. military’s ...

Footballers on Tuesday threatened to strike over dangerous conditions in stadia, following a meeting of the Footballers’ Association (Pasp). The meeting was attended by representatives of players from first division ...

There was no disagreement among party leaders at Monday’s meeting of the National Council, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The president had listened to the suggestions of the parties, ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli scolded his coalition partner and ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu in a televised interview on Tuesday. Arikli, who leads the YDP, the third ...

Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou discussed “opportunities for cultural cooperation” with Japanese Ambassador to Nicosia Yoshio Yamawaki on Tuesday. Writing after the meeting on X, the social media platform formerly ...

Residents of Lefka on Tuesday demanded that the town’s courthouse and police department be reopened. The demand was made by the Lefka Civil Society Organisations Platform, which asked that ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused President Andrzej Duda of obstructing justice after two lawmakers who are due to go to prison appeared at the presidential palace on Tuesday prompting ...

Residents of the village of Kapouti, north of Morphou, are “at the point of mutiny” due to the large and growing number of stray dogs which inhabit the village, according ...

Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron said on Tuesday he was worried that Israel might have breached international law in Gaza, and that the advice he had received so far ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday called for explicit guidelines governing the installation of agrisolar systems on fertile land, and in a way that does not interfere with crop production. The matter was ...

All of Cyprus’ requests have been incorporated into the EU action plan on managing migration flows in the eastern Mediterranean, officials said in parliament on Tuesday. MPs heard that for ...

Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis exceeded the €1 million legal limit in their presidential election spending, while Disy and Elam failed to be thoroughly transparent over their funding during the campaign, ...

Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca are gearing up to host an array of sensational performances this week. From rock and party anthems to acoustic sets and jazzy beats, there is an ...

Two men were handed prison sentences for the possession of child pornography by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday. One was sentenced to eight years behind bars, and the other ...

Less than a quarter of gyms are operating legally, the Gym Owners Association (Pasigy) said on Tuesday. It lamented what it described as a “lack of effective control” of the ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar said on Tuesday there are students from 144 different countries studying at the north’s universities. He was speaking to Turkish online television channel OdaTV and ...

Nicosia on Tuesday again pressed Brussels to review the status of Syria to designate the country or parts of it as a safe zone, allowing for the repatriation there of ...

The fate of a man ordered to be extradited to Russia to face theft charges for allegedly providing false information for compensation linked to the Chernobyl disaster remained unknown on ...

Ukraine’s power grid operator said on Tuesday severe winter weather left more than 1,000 towns and villages without electricity in nine regions and urged residents to conserve power as the ...

Cyprus’ only geriatric clinic has shut its doors to elderly patients citing financial woes, amid an ongoing dispute with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) it emerged on Tuesday. The management ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday called a critical meeting regarding lawyer Akan Kursat who is currently being held in custody in Italy, according to reports. Reports of the ...

By Hanna Yerega The EMERGE project is organising a thought-provoking webinar to examine the immense contribution of think tanks to public discourse and their integral role in policy making. The ...