Archive January 2024

A Turkish Cypriot lawyer was arrested in Italy, it emerged on Tuesday, with reports linking the arrest to the sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north. The lawyer, named ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar made clear he would not return to the negotiating table without equal sovereignty and international status for Turkish Cypriots. In his New Year’s message, ...

Conservation works will be carried out on the medieval chapel at Apostolos Andreas in Karpasia, along with further works on the exterior of the building, the Greek Cypriot co-chairman of ...

The heat in China was relenting in 2023 with temperature records broken from Beijing to Shanghai, echoing the global heatwave phenomena that also engulfed most of the world and raised more ...

Nicosia was on Tuesday waiting for the UN to formally announce the appointment of a new envoy to Cyprus. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News Agency that the ...

A fire in a storage area in Ayios Dhometios was extinguished a few hours after it broke out, the fire service said on Tuesday. The fire broke out at 1:22pm ...

New HIV-1 strains have been discovered on the island, researchers at the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced on Tuesday. In an article published in the biomedical journal Viruses on December 21, ...

A delegation of Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Turkish city of Adiyaman on Tuesday for the beginning of the trial of those held responsible for the collapse of the Isias ...

Cyprus’ electronics and appliance market is expected to experience additional growth in 2024, according to John Vasilakos, Vice President and CEO of Kotsovolos – Dixons South East Europe. Speaking to local news ...

Workers earning the minimum wage in the north are earning less than the equivalent salary in Turkey for the first time, it appeared on Tuesday. Upon returning to work after ...

Hotels in the Famagusta district are expected to see occupancy rates ranging between 20 and 30 per cent during January and February, according to Panayiotis Constantinou, president of the Famagusta Hoteliers Association (...

The final total of traffic deaths in Cyprus in 2023 reached 34, marking a continuing downward trend in deaths on the road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Numbers have fallen ...

The police’s investigation into the death of a five-month-old baby in Larnaca is ongoing, with police suspecting that it was caused by “shaken baby syndrome”. The baby was found ...

The father of one of the Cypriot children killed during February’s earthquakes was detained on arrival in Turkey on Tuesday after a case was filed against him for post ...

Wayne Rooney has been dismissed as the manager of Birmingham City after less than three months in the role, the second-tier Championship club said on Wednesday, after a winless run ...

Rafa Nadal marked his singles comeback after being out injured for nearly a year with a convincing 7-5 6-1 victory over Austrian former world number three Dominic Thiem in the ...

Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) rector Panayiotis Zaphiris this week announced the successful completion of the study outlining the potential establishment of a School of Marine Sciences, Technology, and Sustainable ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday released a statement welcoming the recent launch of the mortgage-to-rent scheme, which went into effect on December 4, 2023, describing it as a favourable way for eligible borrowers ...

Ringing in the new year, PwC Cyprus has published its tax guide for 2024. It offers a valuable source of information on the tax framework of Cyprus in the year 2024, and ...

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the UK containing almost 90 tonnes of assistance has arrived to Egypt’s Port Said and is being transported to the Rafah ...

Aldi UK and Lidl GB reported record Christmas trading on Tuesday, with sales at Aldi rising 8 per cent in the four weeks to Dec. 24 to top 1.5 billion pounds ($1.91 billion) for ...

There has been an increase in people with Covid-19 being hospitalised in Cyprus in recent days, according to state health services organisation (Okypy) press officer Charalambos Charilaou. Charilaou was speaking ...

All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six ...

Oil prices jumped in the first session of the New Year, boosted by the chances of Middle East supply disruptions after a naval clash in the Red Sea, as well ...