Archive 2024

As U.S. election exit polls began to point to a second presidency for Donald Trump, many Americans were already looking for another kind of exit: moving abroad. Google searches ...

Turkey’s accession to the EU is contingent upon the Cyprus issue, Slovenian candidate for the position of EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Marta Kos said. Kos was speaking ...

Friday will be mostly clear with temperatures rising to 25C inland, 26C on the coasts, and 15C in the higher mountains. The winds will be mainly north-easterly, weak to moderate, ...

Eurozone firms expect their turnover to keep rising this quarter but their margins remain under pressure with wage growth outpacing selling price increases, the European Central Bank said in a ...

Hellenic Bank and the union representing its employees, Etyk, have finalised a new collective agreement, based on the preliminary accord reached in April 2023 with the mediation of the Labour Minister. ...

German software developer TeamViewer (TMV.DE) raised its outlook for adjusted core profit margin for the full year after better-than-expected profitability in the third quarter following a reduced sponsorship deal ...

Improved relations between Greece and Turkey have “created positive conditions for the Cyprus problem”, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Thursday. Speaking to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, he said both ...

Sixty-four years after independence and 20 years as an EU member-state, the Cyprus Republic still remains in the clutches of the Church. This is a legacy of Archbishop Makarios that no ...

Tottenham Hotspur’s perfect Europa League start ended when they lost 3-2 at Galatasaray on Thursday as Victor Osimhen scored twice for the hosts and Will Lankshear grabbed his first ...

U.S. President Joe Biden urged Americans to “bring down the temperature” on Thursday following Republican Donald Trump’s election victory and sought to console fellow Democrats who were alarmed ...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. election, praised him for showing courage when a gunman tried to assassinate him, and said Moscow was ...

Israeli forces stepped up bombardment across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and ordered more evacuations, creating a fresh wave of displacement from northern Gaza, to which Palestinians fear they will ...

Interior Minister Konstantinos Ioannou addressed the staffing challenges faced by the district administrations during a meeting with the six district officers on Thursday. The meeting focused on several key issues ...

An MP on Thursday claimed that the Cypriot state was preparing to “borrow again” to repay a €6.3 billion bailout granted back in 2013. Zacharias Koulias (Diko) made the comments while the ...

Over ten thousand people were ordered to evacuate communities northwest of Los Angeles as fierce seasonal winds drove a wildfire down tinder-dry hillsides into ranches and homes, authorities said. Firefighters ...

The House plenum on Thursday approved an extra €94 million for the Health Insurance Organisation for fiscal year 2024, but not without some gripes from MPs. The supplementary budget largely concerns expenses ...

Cypriot traditional quality products such as halloumi, kolokasi and commandaria, are national treasures, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Thursday. The minister was speaking at the second CyFood B2B ...

France’s foreign minister refused to enter a holy site under French administration in Jerusalem on Thursday due to the presence of Israeli security forces, who briefly arrested two French ...

An exhibition on space weather organised by Frederick University opens in Nicosia in collaboration with the European Space Agency. It is an educational exhibition which explores the secrets of space ...

The average annual salary in Cyprus in 2023 was lower than the EU average, according to data released by Eurostat on Thursday. Last year the average annual full-time adjusted salary for ...

A demonstration will be held in Limassol this Sunday to demand an end to racist attacks on delivery workers and racist rhetoric from the state and media. In a joint ...

The government has been paying €6,000 a month for the past four years for facilities intended for people with autism which do not yet exist, the House health committee heard on ...

Donald Trump will face far fewer limits on his power when he is sworn in once more as U.S. president in January, with allies in place across Washington to ...

The year 2025 will be “much more difficult” economically than previous years for Turkish Cypriots, the north’s ‘economy minister’ Olgun Amcaoglu said on Thursday. Speaking to the north’s public ...