Archive 2024

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in Nicosia on suspicion of having robbed three bakeries. The first robbery took place at 11pm, with the man entering a bakery with ...

The north’s ‘government’ on Wednesday night announced that it would privatise the operation of the landfill site in the village of Koutsoventis. The north’s central tender commission said ...

Hello August, hello new weekend of events. We’re not going to lie, August tends to be a little quiet events-wise as many (cultural producers and businesses) go on their ...

Temperatures on Thursday are set to reach a whopping 40 degrees Celsius inland, with temperatures on the southeast and east coasts, 34 degrees Celsius on the north coast, 33 degrees Celsius on the ...

A 17-year-old male already in custody has been charged with murder for the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack in Southport, UK police said on Wednesday, ...

Net new loans in Cyprus experienced a substantial increase in June 2024, reaching a total of €330.6 million, compared to €234.9 million in May, according to a report released this week by the ...

The man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have agreed to ...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely suggested to the country’s largest annual gathering of Black journalists on Wednesday that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had previously downplayed ...

The Cyprus government’s surplus surged to €424.5 million in the January-June period, representing 1.3 per cent of GDP, compared to €62 million and 0.2 per cent of GDP during the same period in 2023, ...

The Bank of England will not publish rules for implementing tougher global bank capital requirements until after the summer, it said this week, raising questions about whether a July 2025 start ...

Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, preliminary data by the government’s statistical authority showed on Wednesday, driven by a 8.5 ...

Turkey wants to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council by the end of the year, the Turkish trade ministry said on Wednesday, after Ankara ...

Traffic from one of the busiest roads in the Larnaca area is being diverted through a small, formerly quiet residential street, causing uproar and a potentially dangerous situation. The problem ...

President Christodoulides, for the last couple of weeks, has been forecasting “some development in the Cyprus issue,” which could materialise in August or early September. He repeated this prediction again ...

Stores were closed and buses not running around much of Venezuela on Wednesday, as tensions over a disputed presidential election and rumors of opposition arrests kept many people home. Socialist ...

Protesters clashed with police near Downing Street in London on Wednesday as Britain faced a second night of demonstrationsfollowing the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack ...

A fight broke out in Limassol on Wednesday night between two groups, leaving a man seriously injured on the seaside road. Initial information said that two people were injured in ...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but opened the door to reducing borrowing costs as soon as its next meeting in September as inflation continues coming into ...

A new yellow warning for high temperatures on Thursday was issued by the met office. According to the warning, the temperature is expected to reach around 40 degrees Celsius inland. The ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will be paying a working visit to Cairo on Thursday, to discuss Cyprus-Egypt relations, EU-Egypt relations, energy issues and developments in the Middle East. A press ...

Despite a spike in tensions in the Middle East, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not currently expect Iran-backed militias to step up attacks against ...

Following a packed month full of remarkable productions of ancient Greek drama, the annual International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama will conclude next weekend with a performance by the National ...

Police on Wednesday were investigating murder, after two charred bodies were recovered from a burning vehicle in Limassol. The car, with the two men, had been located on a dirt ...

Cypriots abroad are the “best ambassadors” for the country’s interests, foreign ministry permanent secretary, Andreas Kakouris said on Wednesday. Commenting at the world conference for overseas Cypriots, Kakouris said ...