Archive 2024

The ongoing political crisis in the north is set to retake centre stage on Monday, with ‘parliament’ due to convene, but the ruling coalition and opposition still unable to disagree ...

Costas Kadis, Cyprus’ commissioner-designate will have his confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon during which he will answer questions by MEPs of the Committee on ...

Cyprus is renowned for ‘wall to wall’ sunshine for a great deal of the year and some rain during the winter. This year has been quite an exception with very ...

According to the United Nations 2024 is “the biggest election year in human history” with half of the world’s population – some 3.7 billion people in 72 countries – able to vote. Yet some ...

By Aidan Hehir “Where is the UN?” is a question that has often been asked since the start of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. As the death toll rises ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos pledged to further deepen relations between Cyprus and Qatar after meeting the country’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Sunday. He ...

The north’s ‘agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus on Sunday promised new, stricter price controls for lamb meat, amid the latest wave of people being caught attempting to smuggle meat from ...

Authorities in the Paphos and Limassol districts on Sunday began to count the cost of the damage caused by Saturday night’s storms. Teams from both districts’ governments began recording ...

Three exceptional concerts are coming to Nicosia’s old town this November, presented by the Pharos Arts Foundation. Held at the intimate venue of The Shoe Factory, the evenings of ...

Europe will need to rethink its support of Ukraine if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday, as the continent “...

Unprecedented air pollution levels in Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore prompted authorities to take emergency measures on Sunday, including issuing work-from-home mandates and closing primary schools. The city held ...

Disy MP Efthimios Diplaros on Sunday announced that he would not stand for re-election at the next parliamentary elections in 2026. His party is set to introduce a new internal rule ...

In a previous article, we referred to the economic challenges faced by the EU. Some analysts and reputable media express the view that Germany is currently the “sick man of ...

My aim is to discuss how the conflicting views of both sides on the issue of property can be reconciled and what the new constitution of a federal bizonal and ...

Greek Cypriot teachers’ trade union Poed and Turkish Cypriot teachers’ trade union Ktos on Saturday night faced off against each other in a football friendly match in Limassol. Ktos secretary-general ...

For months, some of the most lowly paid members of society have been forced to make a difficult choice: go out to work for peanuts and risk getting beaten up; ...

Five people were fined by the Turkish Cypriot police after attempting to cross from the Republic to the north at the Ledra Palace crossing point in Nicosia with combined total ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to 11th ...

The met office announced a yellow weather warning for strong storms, effective between midday and 6pm on Sunday. Storms are expected to hit the mountains and inland areas, as well ...

Moldovans were voting on Sunday in a presidential election that has been overshadowed by meddling allegations and could see Moscow claw back influence in the country at a time when ...

Hunters have expressed their “disappointment” over a lack of huntable animals present in Cyprus on the first Sunday of the hunting season, Paphos district hunting federation chairman Giorgos Theodosiou said ...

The Cyprus government’s budgets for 2025 to 2027 presented to the House of Representatives in October 2024 constitute business as usual with just a mechanical updating of the government finance estimates for 2024. ...

A body was found in the remains of a polyurethane manufacturing plant in the Larnaca district village of Dromolaxia in which a large fire had broken out on Sunday. A ...

Police on Sunday announced the arrest of three people regarding burglaries, thefts, and other, similar crimes. Two of the three, aged 42 and 41 years old, were arrested in connection with an ...