Archive 2024

Cyprus and Greece on Thursday signed two bilateral agreements related to organ transplants, according to Health Minister Michalis Damianou. The first agreement focuses on cross-border kidney transplants. This will allow ...

The report on the state health services, Okypy, for 2022, issued by the audit office earlier this week, illustrates how doctors have been plundering public hospitals, which were supposed to have ...

Six Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya, the governor of Jenin told Reuters on Thursday. ...

Germany’s government is considering ways to support Volkswagen VOWG_p.DE, German economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck said on Thursday, when asked about the threat of job ...

Some Arab American and Muslim voters angry at U.S. support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate ...

The administrative court on Thursday threw out a recourse filed by a number of pharmacies seeking to challenge a ministerial decree that regulates opening hours. In its verdict, the court ...

Students at the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou on Thursday denied any links to a student recruitment agency which had been receiving thousands of euros ...

Brazilian authorities are likely to approve reinstating daylight saving time after it was abolished five years ago, multiple sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the country faces ...

The matter of dangerous buildings and who is responsible for demolishing them has become a sore point between the new-fangled district self-governing organisations (EOA) and the municipalities, it emerged in ...

Bulgaria and Norway became new focal points on Thursday of a global hunt for who supplied Hezbollah with the thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon this week in a ...

Limassol municipality officials informed MPs on Thursday that they have just vetoed the creation of bus lanes along a major avenue inside the coastal city, as it would have exacerbated ...

Donald Trump’s joint appearance with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the battleground state of Pennsylvania has been canceled, according to a source familiar with the Republican presidential candidate’s ...

Legal experts weighed in on Thursday over the decision to fire Odysseas Michaelides as auditor-general, calling it a landmark case that will inevitably be discussed for years. Lawyer Achilleas Emilianides ...

The full moon, the glimmering sea and melodic tunes. These are the three main ingredients of the annual MoonWalk event in Protaras which transforms the seaside promenade into a massive ...

The House audit committee cancelled its session on Thursday “as a mark of respect” to Odysseas Michaelides, who was fired from his post as auditor-general. MPs were slated to discuss ...

Deadly Israeli attacks that blew up Hezbollah radios and pagers crossed all red lines, the leader of the heavily armed Lebanese movement said on Thursday, in a speech broadcast as ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan said he is “looking forward” to his next visit to Cyprus, which will take place before the end of the year. Receiving the credentials of ...

Hand-held metal detectors are being introduced at the world’s largest beer festival this year after last month’s fatal knife attack at a festival in the German city of ...

Medochemie, the largest pharmaceutical company in Cyprus, has a longstanding commitment to supporting sports and promoting initiatives that encourage physical activity and well-being across all age groups. In this spirit, ...

A senior Russian lawmaker on Thursday said that Ukrainian strikes on Russia with Western weapons would lead to nuclear war and that Moscow’s response would be tough with more ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday reiterated their interest and commitment to implement the electricity interconnector project. Christodoulides met Mitsotakis in Athens at the ...

The Faneromeni24 Arts Festival will close with the musical-dance performance “The Pulse of Life”. The show is a bi-communal creation by Tribal Fusion Duet Moires, frame drummer Ianthi Sparsis and ...

Earlier this month, INSET welcomed the new season by hosting a very special evening. The official launch of the multipurpose venue took place on Thursday, September 12, 2024, attended by business leaders, ...

Cyprus industrial workers’ federation (Oviek-Sek) secretary-general George Kasiouris on Thursday called for a “balanced approach” regarding the employment of third-country nationals on the island. “The strategy of granting work permits ...