Archive 2024

The recent 1.5 per cent salary bump granted to all public-sector workers will also benefit those on state pensions, including those receiving multiple pensions, it emerged on Tuesday. There are 71 people ...

Three people were arrested after trying to escape police detention through a window, police said on Tuesday. The incident unfolded over the weekend in Nicosia. Three individuals, two aged 22 and ...

A song performed by British Cypriot singer Isin Karaca at a festival in Greece provoked outrage in the country. Karaca had taken to the stage at the Young Academics’ Association (...

Despite the challenges, the Cyprus tourism product remains “highly competitive” but everyone must do their part to make sure it stays that way, the deputy tourism minister said on Tuesday. ...

The autopsy on the seven-year-old girl who had a drowning incident at a Protaras hotel pool did not clarify her cause of death, police said on Tuesday. Samples were taken ...

The British government has increased its prison capacity to help tackle violent, week-long anti-immigrant riots that have prompted a growing number of countries to warn their citizens about the dangers ...

Global stocks rose in jittery trading on Tuesday, as the uncertainty generated by the previous day’s aggressive selloff weighed on investor sentiment, even though central bank officials said all ...

A luxury Parisian hotel has apologised to tennis great Serena Williams after she complained, in a social media post seen by millions, that she and her family were turned away ...

Eight years after they were first mooted, courses at the University of Cyprus in languages other than Greek have proven divisive as the education ministry works to tie up loose ...

By Lucy Craymer New Zealand’s green credentials are at risk as the government rolls back environmental reforms in a bid to boost a flailing economy and fulfil promises made ...

By Munsif Vengattil, Krishn Kaushik and Chris Thomas With a steeply pitched tiled roof piercing misty green hills in southern India and a stream gushing through rocks nearby, the Stone ...

Initial assessments have shown no observable impact by tourism activities on the biodiversity of the Blue Lagoon area of the Akamas Peninsula. However, the underwater noise pollution caused by the ...

By Gloria Dickie Storm Debby made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, part of what US government forecasters have predicted was an extraordinarily ...

A top Russian official told Ukraine on Tuesday that the longer it waited to enter peace talks, the tougher the terms would be for its people. Moscow has said talks ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Tuesday published its new rules on digital customer onboarding through the release of a Policy Statement (PS-01-2024). According to the commission, ...

Hermes Airports has launched a new programme to help relax stressed passengers prior to their flights, as well as to encourage adoptions from dog shelters. For the next three months, ...

Fifty palm trees have been planted along the Mackenzie seafront promenade as part of a long-term programme aimed at enriching green areas around the district, Larnaca’s tourism development company ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America’s heartland ...

Three men were found guilty on Tuesday of 17 charges each in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali and his chauffeur Murat Demirtas in February 2022. Omer Tunc, ...

Pollution in Limassol’s waters is rampant, a team of winter swimmers from the city claimed on Tuesday, calling on the government to enter a public dialogue on the matter. ...

Delivery of the first phase of the Nicosia highway ring road is scheduled for Thursday, the transport ministry said on Tuesday. The long-delayed project includes a 7.5 kilometre road connecting the ...

A police officer facing trial for rape and domestic violence has won an appeal that means he will be released from custody on bail, it emerged on Tuesday. The officer, ...

Green Dot, which has collected PMD and paper from homes since 2006, said on Tuesday it has done everything it should after a fire destroyed the processing plant it used and ...

The chief of Russia’s general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected Russian forces in the combat zone in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said Gerasimov heard ...