Archive July 2024

By Charles Ellinas Earlier in July, the EU published its ‘European Innovation Performance Scoreboard 2024’ and in June the IMF published its new ‘AI Preparedness Index Dashboard’. Both put Cyprus in ...

Coca-Cola (KO.N) raised its annual sales and profit forecasts earlier this week, as a round of price increases failed to deter consumers mainly in international markets from spending more ...

Computer mouse maker Logitech International (LOGN.S) raised its full-year sales and profit outlook this week, saying it expected full year sales growth of up to 3 per cent after a ...

Shares in SAP (SAPG.DE) rose as much as 7 per cent to reach an all-time high earlier this week, after Europe’s largest software maker reported better-than-expected quarterly operating income, ...

Concerns are continuing to grow over the state of operations of ambulance services in Cyprus, with the federation of Cyprus patients’ associations (Osak) becoming increasingly restless over what they perceive ...

The national guard celebrated its 60th birthday on Thursday by holding manoeuvres in Zygi in the presence of President Nikos Christodoulides and the Minister of Defence Vasilis Palmas, both of ...

The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the U.S., due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, ...

Alleged Mexican kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges after he and a son of another prominent Mexican drug lord were arrested ...

Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire in the United States, which was rapidly expanding near the Oregon-Idaho ...

Cyprus athletes among early countries at River Seine parade Crowds braved queues at security checks and heavy rain showers as they lined the banks of the Seine river in Paris ...

Two people were arrested in Limassol after attacking police on Friday, when they failed to vacate their former property. Police said that the pair attacked police, after the current owners ...

A total of 25 migrants have been forcibly removed from territories of the Republic and taken to the buffer zone against their will, while being denied access to asylum procedures, the ...

Overseas Cypriots (POMAK and PSEKA) will hold their 30th central council meetings next week in Cyprus, an announcement said. There will also be a 12th World Youth Congress of the ...

Hepatitis infections are increasing in Cyprus, especially among young people, the association of liver patients and friends ‘Prometheus’ and the hepatitis society said on Friday. During a workshop which focused ...

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be issuing a legal opinion over Cyprus’ contentious fake news bill which has sparked concerns amid the country’s journalistic ...

Approaching soon is a remarkable production by the National Theatre of Greece that brings an excellent cast of 32 actors to the floor of Ancient Curium. Presented in the first week ...

Alkinoos Ioannides will return to the island this summer to conclude his summer tour in Cyprus. Four more concerts are planned, extending the summer’s music calendar well into September, ...

A sea turtle was released back into the wild on Friday by the fisheries department, Terra Cypria, the environment department, and the British bases an announcement said. The turtle was ...

The European Commission has raised questions over geopolitical risks surrounding the construction of the Great Sea Interconnector, it emerged on Friday. According to CNA, the Commission requested a teleconference over ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged countries around the world to stop armed conflict as part of the Olympic truce, with the Paris 2024 Olympics set to open later on ...

There is a “very real danger” the government will have to pay back EU funds it received for the Vasiliko liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, which is now being investigated ...

The European public prosecutor’s office (EPPO) should investigate the processes behind the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), House energy and commerce committee Chairman Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis said on Friday. He also ...

Cyprus is among countries that have so far failed to temporarily ban the hunting of turtle doves, an avian species still trying to recover from an “alarming population decline”. BirdLife ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and a wealth of other high profile Turkish Cypriot politicians have weighed in on reports swirling around Cyprus’ media regarding “intervention” on the part of ...