Archive 2024

Last October, Matthew Hougan told an industry panel that he expected spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to attract $55 billion of assets in their first five years. As of late August ...

The island’s water security and the escalating water crisis in the southern Mediterranean have featured prominently of late with the specter of desertification looming large after a summer of ...

Jannik Sinner produced a brutal display of baseline power as he became the first Italian man to win the U.S. Open with a 6-3 6-4 7-5 win over American ...

France has asked the European Commission to extend beyond September 20 a deadline for submitting a plan to reduce its public deficit to align with Paris’ 2025 draft budget, La Tribune du ...

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after quitting his country amid a political and diplomatic crisis over July’s ...

The Qatar Red Crescent and the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) signed an agreement on Sunday, with $4.5 million (€4m) from a Qatari state development fund, to aid more than 4,400 stranded ...

Six Jewish hostages were murdered by Hamas last week just before the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reached them, and a controversy has erupted in Israel about whether Prime Minister Benjamin ...

By James Oliphant Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will battle each other next week in their first televised debate, a high-stakes clash that could give the winner an ...

A memorial was held in the village of Acheritou on Sunday to a Turkish soldier who was shot dead in his guard post near the village in 1996. Allahverdi Kilic was ...

The government on Sunday said Turkey is using the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) to avoid its obligations to claimants who were displaced in 1974 and won cases in international courts. The ...

The role of the state in the field of investments is becoming increasingly important, as, over the coming decades, additional funds will be required for the purposes of: (a) tackling ...

By Jon Richardson Russia’s announcement this week that it is revising its nuclear weapons doctrine has raised questions about what this means – and whether it marks a significant escalation ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project will go ahead “if its financial viability is ensured”, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday. Speaking at the Thessaloniki international fair, he said, “...

An upcoming event puts women front and centre (stage). The inaugural TEDxMolos Women on September 26 in Limassol will bring together an eclectic group of inspirational women to share their stories ...

Russia said on Sunday that its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and ...

India had recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus, the health ministry said on Sunday. ...

A man reported having been the victim of a “homophobic attack” on Saturday night in Limassol. In a post on his Instagram story, the man said he had been walking ...

The government aims to “further implement measures which will strengthen young people’s access to culture”, deputy culture minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Sunday. Speaking at the Mountain Fest in ...

Villagers from the Limassol district on Saturday staged a protest against motorcyclists speeding along the road between the villages of Trimiklini and Ayia Eirini. The protest took place in the ...

Officers and non-commissioned officers who fought against Turkey during the 1974 invasion of Cyprus will be awarded medals by the Republic of Cyprus, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas announced on Sunday. Speaking ...

Will the government cross the Rubicon, take the plunge – pick your idiom – this coming Tuesday when all the players sit down in Nicosia for a powwow on the Great Sea ...

Television series Famagusta’s director Andreas Georgiou said the message the series was intended to convey was “to love each other”. In a post to his Instagram story in Greek, ...

A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities said. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that “no matter how hard some people try and would like us to, we do not forget” Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974. ...