Archive 2024

During my visit to a Protaras hotel, I was very surprised when I paid for a pint, and I received a transparent plastic glass of 400 ml. When I told the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar denied on Sunday receiving an invite to meet with the UN and said he would not accept even if there was. Tatar said that that ...

The government hopes that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will accept a UN proposal to hold a tripartite meeting on August 13, spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. President Nikos Christodoulides already accepted the ...

A Palestinian attacker stabbed and killed a woman and wounded three others in central Israel on Sunday before being shot by police, Israeli authorities said. The stabbings took place during ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Sunday that there is a need to adjust policies as Cyprus is possibly its worst drought and heatwave in years. In an interview with ...

The Philippines and Germany have committed to concluding a broader defence cooperation arrangement, their defence ministers said in a joint statement on Sunday. German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius met with ...

Tropical storm Debby formed late Saturday and was expected to surge up into a hurricane before it slams into Florida’s northern Gulf Coast shoreline on Monday, the National Hurricane ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not often go along with the geopolitical concerns of the US and Europe. He belongs to the generation of Turkish politicians whose outlook is ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 29: Deputy Tourism Minister Kostas Koumis recently completed a tour of Limassol’s wine-producing regions, focusing on villages ...

NIK THE FIRST, the self-proclaimed, incorruptible and truthful former president of the Kyproulla republic, has been keeping an unusually low profile in the last couple of weeks during which the ...

If there is one issue that encapsulates the inadequacy of politicians, the failure of state services to draft medium- and long-term plans for the benefit of the country and the ...

Global hedge funds ditched bets against European stock markets at the fastest pace in 10 years amid a raft of better-than-expected company results, according to a Goldman Sachs (GS.N) note ...

Violent disorder swept across several British cities on Saturday, injuring police and damaging property in the most widespread rioting in the country for 13 years, following the murder of three young ...

McDonald’s (MCD.N) reported a surprise drop in sales and missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Monday, as the burger giant struggled to draw in cash-strapped customers ...

Diageo (DGE.L) is set to post its first yearly sales decline since 2020 next week, when it needs to convince investors that plans to turn around its North American and ...

YouTube speeds in Russia are set to sharply decline on desktop computers due Google’s failure to upgrade its equipment in Russia and its refusal to unblock channels of Russian ...

Earlier this week, the fear that journalists could be jailed for what they wrote was very real and Thursday’s decision to review the proposed ‘fake news’ bill has only ...

Julien Alfred delivered a brilliant gun-to-tape performance to win the women’s 100 metres final on Saturday and claim Saint Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medal, though the controversial absence of Shelly-Ann ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday night announced he had accepted an invitation from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to attend a tripartite meeting with him and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin ...

It is almost time for a favourite local festival to return to the rural village of Salamiou in Paphos for its 23rd edition. As one of the oldest festivals of ...

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians on Saturday, hours after two strikes in the occupied West Bank killed nine militants ...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s double world champion Lin Yu-ting are women who have every right to compete at the Paris Olympics despite a gender dispute that has ...

Ukraine’s military said on Saturday it had sunk a submarine in Russian-controlled Sevastopol, attacked a southern Russian airfield and hit oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in ...

Another person was rescued on Saturday by the Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) after getting into distress after jumping into the sea at the Sea Caves in Cape Greco. ...