Archive 2024

More than 200 firefighters backed up by helicopters and water-carrying planes battled a wildfire on Greece’s second-biggest island of Evia for a second day on Tuesday as authorities ordered the ...

Turkish Cypriot political leadership figures lined up behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a spat between Erdogan and Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz. Erdogan had on Sunday night warned ...

Three people were arrested in Limassol on Monday night after a fight broke out in the city. The police had been called at around 11pm, with bystanders reporting a mass ...

Oil prices fell on Tuesday, extending losses from the previous session amid concerns about demand in China, the world’s largest crude importer, while the market shrugged off the risk ...

Discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians rose by about 70% in the U.S. in the first half of 2024 amid heightened Islamophobia due to Israel’s war in Gaza, the ...

Chairman of Cyprus’ Natural Gas Public Corporation (Defa) Antonis Patsalis has died at the age of 72, it was reported on Tuesday. News of his death was announced by the spokeswoman ...

The Agriculture Department this week said that it will introduce tools similar to e-Kofini, which aims to help consumers compare fruit and vegetable prices, to help farmers better leverage their ...

State authorities will be hard pressed on Tuesday at an extraordinary meeting convened by the House energy committee, to discuss the Vasiliko LNG project fiasco, among other hot topics. Energy ...

Russian technology company Yandex on Tuesday said it may start paying dividends for the first time, as it reported a sharp rise in core earnings after completing a lengthy and ...

The foreign ministry on Tuesday issued a reminder that it advises against all travel to Lebanon. The guidance was first issued on October 29 last year, when tensions between Israel and ...

Given the splash Joseph O’Neill made with Netherland and the 10 years that have elapsed since his last novel, there is a tendency in the critical media to want to ...

Police on Monday arrested a fifth person in a case involving the attempt to blow up a prison officer’s car in Nicosia. A 27-year-old Nicosia resident was arrested and ...

Paphos police made two arrests on Monday for a case of illegal employment in Paphos. According to the police, around 10am officers from the aliens and immigration service went to ...

Police seized ampoules with laughing gas (nitrous oxide) and items for their use on Monday night from a kiosk in Ayia Napa. According to the police, 50 unused ampoules, five devices, ...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday the country’s opposition has 73.2% of the voting tallies from Sunday’s election, allowing it to prove election results it says ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Immigration Julieta Valls Noyes is expected to visit Cyprus on Tuesday for meetings with senior government and international officials followed by ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at a two-day policy meeting this week but open the door to interest rate cuts as soon as September by ...

Police seized a large number of counterfeit goods on Monday in Famagusta. In a coordinated operation by police and customs officers, three premises were searched and 357 items of clothing products ...

Cypriot real estate data analytics firm, Ask Wire on Monday published a report detailing the ten most expensive real estate sales transactions in Cyprus for the first half of 2024 across ...

The 30th session of the federation of Cypriot expatriates is meeting in Nicosia on Tuesday for a three-day conference. Participants are the world federation of Cypriot expatriates (Pomak), its youth ...

Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric is in Nicosia on Tuesday on an official visit. In the morning Duric will have a one-on-one meeting with Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, which will ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Tuesday effective from 11am until 4pm. The weather will be mostly clear with some increased clouds, mainly in the mountains. Temperatures will ...

Shares in Mitsubishi Motors (7211.T) surged on Monday following media reports that the Japanese automaker is in talks to join Nissan’s (7201.T) and Honda’s (7267.T) planned strategic partnership. ...

Uncertainty felt by British business leaders collapsed to the lowest level since before the 2016 Brexit vote after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s landslide election victory, according to a survey by ...