Archive 2024

By Gavin Jones Refugeedom is an emotive, complex subject which brings out the best and worst in people and has done so ever since I can remember. The statistics are ...

Brighton & Hove Albion staged a storming second-half comeback with Danny Welbeck sealing a 3-2 home win over Tottenham Hotspur in a topsy-turvy Premier League clash on Sunday. Goals by ...

Nottingham Forest earned a 1-1 draw at Chelsea on Sunday despite going down to 10 men in the 78th minute, as a fine defensive and goalkeeping display kept the hosts at ...

Manchester United ground out a 0-0 draw at Aston Villa on Sunday in a Premier League game steeped in speculation about the future of the visitors’ under-fire manager Erik ten ...

Flights from all Iran’s airports will be cancelled until 6am local time (5.30am Cyprus time) on Monday from 9pm local time (8.30pm Cyprus time( on Sunday, Iran’s state ...

Israeli air attacks battered Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight and early on Sunday in the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel sharply escalated its campaign against Iran-backed ...

Looking at the chart of ‘coffee consumption by country’ at the World Population Review website – a slightly random chart, topped by Luxembourg and featuring such unexpected names as Belize and ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Sunday, accused of assaulting two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ who were attending a peace event in central Nicosia on Saturday. According to ...

The Cyprus Medical Association on Sunday called for an “urgent review” of safety measures at accident and emergency departments in Cyprus’ hospitals after a patient attacked staff at the Nicosia ...

A total of 29 kilograms of meat and 10 bags of coal were seized by the Turkish Cypriot police at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point from a car which was attempting to ...

Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou on Sunday pledged to create a framework to manage disagreements between the audit office and the legal service. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, he said he had been ...

Mehmet Tulek, whose daughter Asya was one of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during last year’s ...

A European Court of Justice ruling reached on Friday has scuppered Cyprus’ plans to declare parts of Syria as safe, with a view to returning migrants to those parts of ...

The month of October is dedicated to both World Mental Health Day and Breast Cancer Awareness and Early Diagnosis and to approach the topic, the Breast Centre of Cyprus is ...

The EU is currently undergoing a critical period, mainly due to economic stagnation, lagging behind the US and China in the field of technology and insufficient progress in the battle ...

Maintenance work at the Saint Nicholas church in the Karpas peninsula village of Koma tou Yialou has been completed, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris announced on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will convene the National Council on Monday ahead of his planned informal dinner with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on October 15, ...

Thefts of copper have surged over the last year as prices spiral to up to €6,500 per tonne, despite the risks thieves face of electrocuting themselves as they cut power lines ...

Cyprus on Saturday became a full member of the International Organisation of La Francophonie. The country joins La Francophonie’s 54 other full members, having been an observer since 2006. The foreign ...

Despite Cyprus being ranked as one of the lowest in Europe for book spending and literacy rates, you’d never guess it if you attended the Nicosia Book Fest! This ...

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has launched his invasion of Lebanon. As usual in the opening stages of Israeli incursions into that fragile country, the signs and portents look ...

The preservation of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is the government’s “strategic goal”, Migration Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Sunday. Speaking at the Klirou cultural festival in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said “everyone recognises the Greek Cypriot side’s constructive approach” regarding efforts to solve the Cyprus problem. Speaking at a memorial ceremony for Eoka fighter ...

Flights are continuing to and from Cyprus on Sunday to facilitate the departure of people from across the world from Lebanon and their onward journey to their countries of origin. ...