Archive 2024

By Tristan Dunning, Martin Kear and Shannon Brincat While the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could have provided an off-ramp for the conflict in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

By Luigi Scazzieri A year after Hamas launched its October 7th attack on Israel, the Middle East is on the edge of a broader war. For a time, Europeans and ...

“We don’t like risks in Cyprus, do we?” asks Loui. “I reckon we tend to sit where we land. Why take a chance when you believe your path is ...

Clocks will go back one hour on Sunday, October 27. Summertime for 2024 ends on Sunday at 04:00am and clocks should be moved an hour back. The time change is applied in ...

By Parisa Hafezi and Emily Rose Israel bombed military sites in Iran early on Saturday, but its retaliation for an Iranian attack this month did not target the most sensitive ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus reported on Friday that total loans in Cyprus increased by €107.3 million in September, reversing a decline recorded in the previous month. This growth was primarily ...

Arsenal’s serene start to the season has hit stormy waters in the past week and Mikel Arteta’s side know they can ill-afford to lose at home to Premier ...

By Charles Ellinas Finally, some good news about the beleaguered LNG import project in Cyprus. Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou confirmed in parliamentary hearings that an agreement has been reached with ...

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Gabriella Borter and Georgina McCartney Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took a detour from barnstorming the battleground states that will decide November’s election with Friday stops ...

By Michael Holden Right-wing, anti-immigrant protesters and opposing anti-racism demonstrators are both planning large rallies in London on Saturday, closely watched by a beefed up police operation aimed at heading ...

Cyprus’ Composite Leading Economic Index (CCLEI), maintained by the University of Cyprus’ Economics Research Centre (CypERC), recorded a year-on-year increase of 1.1 per cent in September 2024. This follows annual growth rates ...

The European Union, rushing to develop a 9 million euro joint purchasing mechanism for critical minerals and energy, is choosing between eight bidders vying to develop a platform, documents showed and ...

Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is imposing severe price caps on what merchants can charge for their products on a new low-cost storefront that the e-commerce giant is preparing to launch, ...

Robinhood recently launched its long-awaited desktop platform and added futures and index options trading features to its mobile app, as the fintech firm aims to take market share from traditional ...

IBM (IBM.N) released the latest version of its artificial intelligence models catered towards businesses this week, looking to capitalize on the surge in enterprises adopting generative AI technology. “Granite 3.0” ...

Tests carried out at diagnostic centres in Cyprus are already “of perfect quality”, diagnostic centres’ association (Pasydike) chairman Giorgos Kouttoukis said on Friday. Speaking to Astra radio station, he said ...

Residents of the Famagusta district village of Frenaros have been protesting about the plans of Bioland Energy to build huge photovoltaic parks in their area. They walked out of a ...

 Chinese hackers who tapped into Verizon’s system targeted phones used by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, the New York Times reported on Friday, ...

A NASA astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station, ...

Hotel unions on Friday threatened to go on a collective strike, a few days after rejecting a mediation proposal on collective agreements put forth by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou. In ...

Telecom company Epic on Friday said there was no evidence of a data breach on its systems so far, after a leak purporting to show 46 users and their passwords was ...

October is the time to enjoy Cyprus’ villages and cool weather and take in its delicious produce. Here to celebrate the age-old tradition of Cypriot wine-making but with a modern ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman is “causing chaos”, at the end of a third week of political wrangling in the north ...

A Northern Irish man on Friday was given a life sentence for 185 charges of online child sexual abuse and blackmail related to so-called catfishing attacks, one of which led to ...