Archive July 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office racked up a multi-million euro budget overrun last year as it pulled out the stops on a lavish lobster dinner for Britain’s King ...

A 57-year-old man is being treated in intensive care on Wednesday after a collision in Larnaca. According to the police, the collision occurred shortly before 7pm, on a rural road ...

Russia launched several waves of drones on Kyiv in what was one of the war’s largest attacks of its kind targeting Ukraine, the military administration of the city said ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 42-year-old Limassol resident for an investigated case of motorcycle theft. The owner of a company in Limassol had reported two motorbikes as stole between last ...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday, describing the strike as a “severe escalation” ...

The University of Cyprus’ Economics Research Centre (CypERC) this week released a report predicting improved economic growth for Cyprus during the 2024-2025 period. According to the centre’s July 2024 issue, ...

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus amounted to 421,400 visitors in May 2024, marking an increase of 0.3 per cent from the 420,076 recorded in the same month of the previous year, according to a report ...

Water will be cut all day on Wednesday to Latchi, the Polis Chrysochous Municipality announced. The water cut is due to the a replacement of the main pipeline supplying the ...

Military cooperation between the Republic and the USA is intended as a threat against the ‘TRNC’ the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ has said. In response to the threat the necessary ...

A renewed yellow weather warning is in place for high temperatures on Wednesday, in effect from 11am until 4pm. The day will be mostly clear with increased afternoon clouds in ...

PayPal (PYPL.O) on Tuesday raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit for the second time, betting on resilient consumer spending in the back-to-school and upcoming holiday shopping seasons, while ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling over 1.8 million vehicles in the United States due to risk of software failure to detect an unlatched hood, the national auto safety regulator said on ...

The British competition regulator’s ongoing review of supermarket loyalty prices is unlikely to identify widespread evidence of promotions that mislead shoppers, according to a statement by the watchdog. Loyalty ...

By Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou My journey into environmental advocacy began long before my appointment as the Commissioner for the Environment on January 10, 2024. My deep passion for the interplay between ...

In a country in which we have union rule, it is inevitable that a small organised group has become a key player in public health, often dictating policy. Osak, a ...

The current state of affairs in the Cyprus problem is “not viable” and holds “serious dangers”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, opening the Cyprus diaspora convention. He also said “we should ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris held a marginal one-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, closing the gap that opened in the final weeks of ...

At least 85 sick and severely injured Palestinians from Gaza, including 35 children, were evacuated to Abu Dhabi for specialised care, the director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on ...

In the moments before Nasa’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defence test in 2022, it took high-resolution images of this small celestial object and ...

The Nicosia district court has issued a four-day remand order against the fifth person arrested for the car bombing of July 4 in Nicosia. The suspect, a 27-year-old man, was arrested ...

Controlled pharmaceutical and drug products were confiscated on Tuesday during a police and heath ministry operation in Limassol. Two shops were searched after information that illegal substances were being traded. ...

An Israeli air strike targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Tuesday in what the Israeli military said was retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack ...

The natural beauty of Paphos is the inspiration behind an exhibition opening at Minthis resort. Running from Friday to August 31, Minthis Hills will host the Nature Trails exhibition featuring works ...

Microsoft investors will have one big question after the tech giant reports earnings on Tuesday: has growth in its Azure cloud-computing business picked up enough to justify the billions of ...