Archive 2024

Pernod Ricard said on Wednesday it agreed to sell the majority of its wine portfolio to the owners of Australia’s Accolade Wines, disposing of a dragging division to focus ...

We asked a random selection of Greek Cypriots on the streets of Nicosia to share their feelings on the 50-year anniversary of the Turkish invasion. DIVIDED ISLAND

Air raid sirens wailed across Nicosia at dawn on Saturday as Greek Cypriots mourned, and Turkish Cypriots celebrated 50 years since the Turkish invasion. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime ...

By Zeba Siddiqui Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo ...

Services from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday night and Saturday after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long global computer systems ...

‘Panicking, we hid in the bathroom’ By Emilia Christofi It was a Saturday morning, August 24, 1974, ten days after the second wave of the Turkish invasion. Charalambos Zenou and Paraskevoula Charalambous ...

Starting with the consumer goods market, the latest data from the Consumer Product Price Watch, released by the Consumer Protection Service, highlights a significant uptick in prices. In June, 28 out ...

British house prices rose for a third month in a row in May, increasing by an annual 2.2 per cent after a 1.3 per cent rise in April, the Office for National ...

By Maria Demertzis, André Sapir, Jeromin Zettelmeyer After every European election, Bruegel produces a series of memos to the new European Commissioners that will take office in Brussels. The first ...

Collaborative firefighting efforts between Cyprus and British forces were praised Friday in a news release from the British bases. The statement included comments from Minister for Agriculture Maria Panayiotou and ...

It is exactly 50 years today that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, was launched and within a few weeks – by August 16 – the offensive was completed, with the invasion force spreading eastwards ...

Too much time has been lost without a solution to the Cyprus problem, the EU’s diplomatic service said on Friday night as it marked the 1974 invasion. “This week, we ...

An orange warning for extreme high temperatures was issued for Saturday, with temperatures expected to reach around 43C inland and 32C in higher mountainous areas. The warning is valid from 11:00 ...

A Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the ...

Developments on the resumption of negotiations may be expected soon, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday as he attended a memorial event for the missing in Kornos. Citing information he ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas condemned on Friday a video posted on social media by the Turkish defence ministry showcasing the Turkish army and Turkish navy military exercises. In statements on ...

The foreign ministry on Friday said the resolution passed by Turkey’s Grand National Assembly constitutes a falsification of history and revisionism. A day earlier, the assembly adopted a resolution ...

Cyprus is definitely having its music moment this year as more and more international stars add it to their touring schedule. No complaints from music fans and as the summer ...

The defence ministry said on Friday it continues to implement measures to protect soldiers from high temperatures, days after two National Guard recruits from the same camp were hospitalised with ...

A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards ...

Every four years, the best athletes from around the globe converge to battle it out for top honours at the Olympic Games. Athletes go through the rigours of qualification, competing ...

Environmental groups on Friday raised “serious concerns” about “multiple pressures and threats” being faced at Lady’s Mile Beach in Akrotiri Peninsula that are “putting in danger this area of ...

The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its ...

Ineia community president Yiangos Tsivikos has dismissed allegations by the Cyprus Greens that water in an Akamas protected area had been diverted to illegal properties. Tsivikos said the water had ...