Archive 2024

A Donald Trump victory in the race for the White House is widely seen as bullish for European defence stocks, given his warnings to scale back US military support in ...

Hundreds of babies laid to rest at Dhekelia military cemetery, who died in the 1950s and 60s, now have Winston to look over them. A statue of Winston the bear ...

Presenting his ministry’s budget for 2025 at the House finance committee on Monday, Health Minister Michael Damianos said that an action plan would be prepared in the immediate future for ...

A security fence rings a Las Vegas building where a Nevada county tabulates votes. An Arizona sheriff has his department on high alert to guard against potential violence with drones ...

Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan’s eastern ...

Akel’s general secretary Stefanos Stefanou met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis in Athens on Monday, with the Cyprus problem being top of the ...

Prostate cancer is the first most common cancer in men and the second most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) in men in Cyprus, the association of cancer ...

A 28-year-old man has been remanded in Ayia Napa for eight days in an ongoing burglary case. Famagusta police said the theft took place on October 31 in Ayia Napa when ...

The British government announced plans to raise the cost of university tuition fees for domestic students in England on Monday for the first time in eight years, in an attempt ...

For 2023, just over 10 per cent of non-EU citizens aged 65 and over living in Cyprus perceived themselves to be in bad or very bad state of health, according to a Eurostat ...

The civil servants’ main union on Monday came to the defence of former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, urging authorities to immediately pay the ex-official all his pension dues. “Regardless of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced a €50 million tranche of measures aimed at tackling the “national challenge” Cyprus is facing with its ‘alarming demographic problem’, where fertility rates have dropped ...

A business association urged parliament on Monday to quickly pass an EU regulation that has to do with the screening of direct foreign investment in Cyprus, noting that the island ...

An exciting music event is coming to Paphos this weekend, bringing together a handful of musicians. The Un-Silent Place is a multi-dimensional work for Piano Trio and String Quartet which ...

An appeal board has dismissed Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis’ appeal on Monday in relation to misconduct which alleged him spitting towards match officials at their Premier League fixture against ...

An action plan to ensure state health services (Okypy) are autonomous by 2026 will be submitted to Cabinet imminently, aiming to increase Okypy’s income and reduce its expenses. The projected ...

Health Minister Michalis Damianos expressed his concern on Monday over the risks of an oligopoly in the health sector, as private hospitals are being bought up by a limited number ...

Residents in U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 ...

Oksana Kushnir, a pioneer in more ways than one, has etched her name in history as the first Cypriot woman to summit Mount Everest, along with other towering giants like ...

The Ayios Dhometios gymnasium in Nicosia on Monday announced that it will undertake a pilot programme of “optional” all-day lessons. The programme was announced following a cabinet decision and will ...

Taking place in Cairo, Egypt, over November 4–8, 2024, the United Nations’ World Urban Forum is bringing together world leaders and individuals who influence future policy on sustainable urbanisation. Among the invited ...

Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecoglou is solely focused on the task at hand and not getting distracted by the Premier League table at this stage of the season, he ...

Australia will spend A$600 million ($395 million) on defence reserve recruitment and extending a cash bonus to retain troops as the centre-left Albanese government seeks to overcome workforce shortages, officials are ...

The savings rate in Cyprus has experienced a decrease, according to preliminary estimates of key macroeconomic indicators from the national accounts for 2023. According to the data, the gross disposable income ...