Archive 2024

Is your boss texting you on the weekend? Work email pinging long after you’ve left for home? Australian employees can now ignore those and other intrusions into home life ...

Tuesday will see increased cloud cover at times, which in the afternoon is expected to bring localised showers and isolated thunderstorms in the mountains, the interior, and the southeast. Temperatures ...

In eight years of working as a taxi driver in Kenya’s capital, Judith Chepkwony has never seen business this bad. A bruising price war between ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies (...

Some of Britain’s car, home and other insurers are still unable to show they provide good outcomes for consumers, according to the country’s financial watchdog, a year after ...

Cyprus has the second largest drop in the number of firefighters within its ranks across 12 EU member states in 2023, an analysis by European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has revealed. The ...

A few days after the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced that it would accept students who had sat international exams (GCEs, IB) to undergraduate courses at which there were available ...

U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked a federal appeals court to revive the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of retaining classified documents, after a lower court dismissed ...

The United States continues to assess that the threat of attack against Israel by Iran and its proxy groups still exists, the Pentagon said on Monday, after Hezbollah launched hundreds ...

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his elected successor defended a judicial reform plan on Monday, saying the U.S. ambassador’s criticism that it would threaten Mexican ...

Negotiations in Cairo to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal are still pressing ahead, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, adding that the discussions will ...

A 53-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia on Monday under suspicion of having committed 19 robberies, burglaries and break-ins police said. According to police, the man was arrested on Monday afternoon ...

United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt on Monday after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where the ...

An exposé released on Monday revealed that migrant fruit pickers in the north are living in squalid conditions in a camp near Morphou. The report, released in newspaper Ozgur Gazete, ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Monday waved off the notion he might quit over lingering concerns he has regarding the mooted Cyprus-Greece electricity interconnector. Speaking to the ANT1 television channel, ...

Deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Monday that President Nikos Christodoulides has already responded positively to plans afoot to hold a three-way meeting on the Cyprus problem. Antoniou said ...

To wrap up the last week of August, a series of live music performances are happening across the island. Arriving to beat those back-to-school/back-to-work blues, local musicians are gearing ...

A group claiming to be the owners of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach, Larnaca on Monday expressed frustration with the interior ministry over being excluded from processes to sign ...

The Israeli partners in the consortium holding the concession on the Aphrodite offshore gas reservoir confirmed on Monday that they had received from the Cypriot government a ‘notice of breach’ ...

British Royal Navy HMS Duncan took part in a joint exercise with Cyprus’ naval guard last week, it was reported on Monday. According to the British High Commission in Nicosia, ...

Oasis, one of the 1990s rock bands that defined Britpop, is set to reunite as brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher teased an announcement early on Tuesday and a newspaper said ...

The government is due to give the thumbs-up on Tuesday to a call for tender for the selection of a project manager for the troubled Vasiliko LNG terminal. The decision ...

Leaders from France’s far-right National Rally said on Monday their party will block any prime ministerial candidate from the leftist New Popular Front, narrowing President Emmanuel Macron’s options ...

Separatist militant attacks on police stations, railway lines and highways in Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan, coupled with retaliatory operations by security forces, killed more than 60 people, officials said ...

Ninety-four people have been arrested so far this year in connection with human smuggling offences, head of the Police Aliens and Immigration Unit Petros Zenios said on Monday as efforts ...