Archive June 2024

Britain’s next government will find it near-impossible to stop tax levels approaching an all-time high, despite an election campaign in which both major parties have promised not to increase ...

Hezbollah said it had launched rockets and weaponised drones at nine Israeli military sites in a coordinated attack on Thursday, ramping up hostilities on Lebanon’s southern border for the ...

State-owned asset management company Kedipes on Thursday announced cash inflows of €144 million for the first quarter of 2024, with the company also making a record payment of €140 million to the state, ...

China-based suppliers, which buck traditional manufacturing processes by taking small initial orders and scaling up based on demand. Most of the clothing Shein sells is made in Guangzhou, China, by ...

British pub group Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA.L), on Thursday, posted higher sales for the first 10 weeks of the new fiscal year, aided by strong demand and lower costs, ...

Apple’s developer conference was about more than infusing its software with the latest artificial intelligence technology, including from ChatGPT. It was also about selling more iPhones. Facing choppy consumer ...

A Czech billionaire who turned a regional energy company into a global business empire after the fall of the Berlin Wall is now betting on selling lottery tickets in places ...

Cyprus ranks first among EU countries for volunteer blood donations, First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides remarked in a speech on Wednesday. The speech was delivered in honour of the 20th ...

Every year we face the same problem when big fires break out in the countryside. We do not have anywhere near enough firefighting aircraft and have to rely on the ...

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Thursday its chairman met with the heads of Meta (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) this week to discuss cooperation and that ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on Thursday aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defense against Russian invaders and getting Ukraine ...

The African National Congress (ANC) was holding last-minute talks with other parties on Thursday to thrash out a deal to form South Africa’s next government, as its secretary-general said ...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party overtook Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party in an opinion poll for the first time on Thursday ahead of Britain’s election on ...

Lawmakers on Thursday slammed the brakes on local authorities’ ability to automatically raise water supply fees by up to 14 per cent, arguing that the central government should step in to ...

Cypriot YouTuber and newly elected MEP Fidias Panayiotou will not get to attend sessions of the National Council, the government said on Thursday, slamming the door shut on speculation over ...

Hiccups should be expected once the new district-level organisations take over licensing for town planning and building, the interior minister said on Thursday. Constantinos Ioannou made the comments coming out ...

A total of 200 air conditioning units will be installed in schools in Limassol and Nicosia by August 10, the head of the school boards committee promised on Thursday. Committee chairman Dinos ...

The capital city welcomes three new art showcases this month from solo artists, student groups and organisations showcasing their remarkable projects. Korai Project Space hosts the graduation exhibition of students ...

Israeli Simon Mistriel Aykut, the director of Afik Group, a property developer in the north, will remain in custody for an additional six days, as decided by the Nicosia District ...

How far a driver crosses the traffic line should have a bearing on how heavy the fine is, MPs at the House transport committee agreed on Thursday. The proposal was ...

Professor Nicholas A. Ioannides appears to be President Nikos Christodoulides’ front runner for new deputy minister of migration, it emerged on Thursday. A source close to the matter told the ...

The defence ministry has received the donation of a semi-inflatable 40-foot Rafnar search and rescue vessel, which will be added to the navy fleet as part of upgrading coastal security ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Thursday said that the strengthening of diplomatic relations between Cyprus and Jordan is helping to significantly lift the island’s tourism sector. In ...

The United States is very concerned that hostilities on the Israel-Lebanon border could escalate to a full-out war, a senior U.S. official said, saying that specific security arrangements are ...