Archive 2024

The government will invite two tenders in a bid to complete the LNG project, one for remaining construction work on the jetty at the land-based facilities at Vasiliko, the other ...

Britain’s financial watchdog this week launched two reviews of retail conduct and insurance rules to cut costs and improve competitiveness, now that a strict new duty to put consumers ...

Thousands of Palestinians returned to their homes in the ruins of Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis on Tuesday, after Israeli forces ended a week-long incursion there which they ...

A plan called Nafkratis has been updated for migratory flows in case Cyprus needs to become a safe junction for evacuees due to an explosive situation in Lebanon and the ...

Abandoned and unwanted items were removed from the beach on Tuesday near Larnaca nautical club by the municipality and the town’s district administration. The municipality provided an excavator and ...

Nicosia can count on Belgrade’s full support when it comes to Cyprus’ national issues, Serbia’s top diplomat assured his Cypriot counterpart on Tuesday. Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric ...

By Sachin Ravikumar and Toby Melville Behind the lush greenery, roses in bloom and birdsong at London’s famous Kew Gardens lies the darker reality of climate change, which threatens ...

By Xinghui Kok At Singapore’s House of Seafood restaurant, the fish-head curry comes with a side of crunchy crickets, the tofu has bugs crawling out of it and the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday met Cypriot diplomats at the Presidential palace in Nicosia, expressing the hope he would soon have something to share about the Cyprus problem. At the ...

Video footage emerged on Tuesday of a man stealing a set of traffic lights from an intersection in Kyrenia. The footage was captured by a CCTV camera located at the ...

The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as absurd U.S. intelligence assertions that Russia is seeking to meddle in the presidential election and said that U.S. spies were intent on ...

Nicosia-based tech startup and iOS app BRAYN, originally launched in Cyprus and the United Kingdom, is set to expand globally by 2025, according to an official announcement. The announcement said that ...

Cypriot swimmer Nikolas Antoniou was knocked out of the Olympic Games on Tuesday despite winning his men’s 100-metre freestyle heat at La Defense Arena in Paris. Antoniou’s winning ...

Plans laid out by the north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu to forbid children who do not speak Turkish from attending schools in the north are “unconstitutional”, Turkish Cypriot teachers’ ...

Ten days ago model with a Cypriot heritage Sophia Hadjipanteli captivated the crowd at Zandra Rhodes’ book launch for ICONIC: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects in London. Held at ...

Landslides swept through tea estates in southern India’s Kerala state on Tuesday, killing over 50 people, authorities said, as hillsides collapsed after heavy rain and sent rivers of mud, water ...

A British woman who attempted to import cannabis into the island was on Tuesday jailed for 11 years by the Larnaca criminal court. The 22-year-old was arrested with 16kg of the ...

Industrial production in Cyprus recorded a 2.7 per cent increase year-on-year during May 2024, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). This rise brought the Industrial ...

Police on Tuesday were investigating an incident during which hooded men climbed up traffic cameras in Limassol and spray painted their lenses. The cameras had been newly installed on Franklin ...

There are over 14,000 pending asylum-seeker applications from Syrian nationals, the UNHCR confirmed on Tuesday as the EU Commission said any efforts to return Syrians to their home country must be ...

The Cypriot real estate market has demonstrated signs of stability and resilience during the first half of 2024, with the average transaction value gradually approaching pre-pandemic levels, according to a report ...

The yard of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation will again transform into an outdoor summer cinema, featuring unique productions from Cypriot producers and films in association with The Friends ...

Viral encephalitis has caused at least 56 deaths in India’s western state of Gujarat, forcing authorities to step up surveillance for the disease caused by a viral infection often spread ...

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus amounted to 421,400 visitors in May 2024, marking an increase of 0.3 per cent from the 420,076 recorded in the same month of the previous year, according to a report ...