Archive 2024

Rising interest rates, which have led to increased borrowing costs, have consequently weighed heavily on mortgage demand in Cyprus, according to Delfi Partners’ analysis, which examined data for the first ...

General Motors and Barclays said on Monday they have signed a long-term credit card partnership agreement to let customers earn and redeem reward points on new Buicks, Cadillacs and other ...

The government said on Monday it will set up a team of legal experts to advise on two bills relating to the planned reform of the Audit Office and the ...

The two leaders will dine with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York, in what has been classed as an ‘informal’ meeting, which would suggest no decisions would be taken ...

Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world’s oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain ...

President of the Cyprus Writers’ Centre PEN Angela Christofidou was elected president of the international search committee of the International Union of Writers PEN (PEN International) at the first session ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Monday to scrap regulation that holds back economic growth as he secured commitments for more than £60 billion ($78 billion) of investment from some of ...

At least 12 people were killed and 33 injured in Egypt on Monday after a bus overturned on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast, the Egyptian health ministry said. ...

A players’ union, the European leagues’ group and Spain’s LaLiga accused Fifa of “abuse” on Monday as they filed a joint complaint about the governing body’s international match ...

Israeli attacks on the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, are contrary to international humanitarian law and must stop at once, Italy, Britain, France and Germany said ...

The importance of the Council of Europe (CoE) was highlighted during an event on the ‘75 years of operation of the Council of Europe: Republic of Cyprus – benefits and prospects’, which ...

Israel expanded its targets in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people in an airstrike in the north, health officials said, while millions of ...

The World Health Organisation said it received pledges worth $700 million for its 2025-2028 budget at an event in Berlin on Monday, in addition to $300 million already pledged by the European ...

A 62-year-old British tourist died on Monday while swimming in Peyia, Paphos. Police said people accompanying the tourist lost sight of him and he was later carried out of the ...

Vaccines against seasonal flu and Covid-19 will be available for free, the health ministry announced on Monday. All Gesy beneficiaries over six-months-old are eligible, it said. Priority will be given ...

The highest interest rate on term deposits of up to one year by households in August 2024 stood at 2.45 per cent while the highest interest rate on loans for the purchase ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are on the “same page” regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem, that there cannot be a solution outside the agreed ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had been briefed about North Korea’s involvement in the war in his country and Russia’s plans for this autumn and ...

The alternative study and reintegration school, currently in a separate area within the Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia, will be moved to another place due to hostility directed against its students. ...

Half a million consumers in Latin America’s largest city are still without electricity three days after a violent gale knocked down power lines and caused a blackout, the distributor ...

By Charalambos Charalambous Education serves as the bedrock of any society’s development. To ensure we adequately prepare future generations for the complexities of the modern world, we must rethink ...

A coalition of Turkish Cypriot organisations on Monday demanded the release of businesspeople arrested by the Republic of Cyprus on the charge of developing or promoting the development of Greek ...

The Supreme Court will announce its decision over the case surrounding Thanasis Nicolaou’s death at a later unspecified date, after Monday’s hearing had lawyers from each side put ...

The labour ministry in collaboration with EURES Cyprus, a network of cooperation for employment and for the free movement of workers, is hosting a career event titled “Find Your Career ...