Archive 2024

England eased past hosts Greece 3-0 in their Nations League match on Thursday to go top of their Group B2 and head into their last matchday against Ireland playing for ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Lima on Thursday, kicking off a week-long diplomatic blitz in Latin America by inaugurating the massive Chancay deep-water port, one of Beijing’s most ...

The national strategy for the prevention and management of violence in schools for the period 2024–2028 is human centred and scientifically backed, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said, following cabinet’s approval ...

Former House president Yiannakis Omirou called Greece’s recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion in Cyprus an important contribution to uncovering further details of what ...

The World Bank said on Thursday the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has caused $8.5 billion in damage and losses to Lebanon, with final figures expected to be significantly higher ...

The cabinet on Thursday greenlit an additional €109 million in spending for the finance ministry for fiscal year 2024, with Finance Minister Makis Keravnos saying the overall budget would remain balanced despite ...

Like a headline befitting the Onion, the parody news website is buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars in a bankruptcy auction. The Onion said in a statement on Thursday it ...

Barclays BARC.L has been ordered to pay a former banker with endometriosis and anxiety almost 50,000 pounds ($63,500) for failing to adjust her working hours and for sex discrimination, a London ...

Families of Israeli hostages taken captive to Gaza by Islamist group Hamas urged U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday to work on a deal to ...

The government pledged Thursday to tighten up procedures for granting state land intended for the construction of solar parks, aiming to make these practices “more transparent and meritocratic”. In a ...

A new theatre production by THOC New Stage is currently on show in Nicosia. Nachtland is a play by Marius von Mayenburg which has been translated into Greek and following ...

President Nikos Christodoulides received an allowance for living abroad while he was in fact in Cyprus, it emerged on Thursday, as the matter was discussed at the House audit committee. ...

The European Commission has initiated two new procedures against Cyprus regarding water management and the submission of updated national energy and climate plans. The Commission issued a formal notice to ...

The prisons department found drugs in the possession of an inmate on Thursday after he had received a scheduled visit. The drugs were confiscated and handed over to the police ...

The European Commission on Thursday fined Meta Platforms META.O €797.72 million ($840.24 million) over abusive practices benefiting Facebook Marketplace, it said in a statement, confirming an earlier report by Reuters. “The ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced two men, aged 38 and 27, to eight and nine years in prison respectively on charges of drug possession. According to a police statement, the ...

Any asylum seeker who commits a crime will have their subsidiary protection status revoked, Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides announced on Thursday. His statements were made after a Cabinet ...

Italian coach Claudio Ranieri has come out of retirement at the age of 73 to take charge of AS Roma until the end of the season, the Serie A club announced ...

Greece is in talks with Israel to develop a 2 billion euro ($2.11 billion) anti-aircraft and missile defence dome, part of a wider push to modernise its armed forces as it recovers ...

The ‘Thermokitida Agapis’ association on Wednesday thanked the Ygeia polyclinic in Limassol for its contribution towards the purchase of two mobile rescue units valued at €40,000, now handed over to the ...

About 650 state hospital doctors, set to receive €19.1 million over and above their salaries, overtime and allowances, to keep up financially with their private sector peers, are to go on strike ...

President Joe Biden heads to South America on Thursday for a curtain call with global leaders after over 50 years in U.S. politics, but the man he tried and failed ...

Turkey was offered partner country status by the BRICS group of nations, Trade Minister Omer Bolat said, as Ankara continues what it calls its efforts to balance its Eastern and ...

By Zackary Okun Dunivin There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has ...