Archive 2024

Gulf retail giant AlShaya Group, which owns the rights to operate Starbucks in the Middle East, plans to lay off over 2,000 people as the business suffers from consumer boycotts linked ...

One in four children in Cyprus has said they are victims of bullying in schools and online, a study has found according to non-governmental organisation (NGO) Hope For Children on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, in the televised appraisal of his first year in office, said that the Cyprus problem was at the “epicentre of the priorities of the government”. He then ...

Holders Manchester City cruised into the Champions League quarter-finals for the seventh consecutive season with a 3-1 victory over FC Copenhagen on Wednesday in their last-16 second leg that wrapped ...

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order additional emergency measures against Israel, which it says is breaching the measures already in place, the U.N.’...

Political courage to solve the Cyprus problem is in short supply, the UN’s special representative Colin Stewart said on Wednesday, in an appeal for relevant actors to take the “...

Humanitarian aid for Gaza is expected to sail from Cyprus in coming days, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear which country was ...

Efforts are still ongoing to resolve the liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal dispute, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Wednesday, stressing the government has not ruled out walking out of ...

A police car chase on Wednesday at Episkopi village ended with an accident on the road in Limassol. Officers tried to pull over a rental car, with three young individuals. ...

MPs questioned on Wednesday why student dorms commissioned by the University of Cyprus (UCy) cost twice as much as those built by the Limassol archbishopric. It will also take eight ...

Greece will continue standing at Ukraine’s side, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the Black Sea port of Odesa where the ...

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday the scale of public support for him since his death was proof that his cause lived on, and called ...

Britain’s Conservative government announced a 10-billion-pound cut in labour taxes on Wednesday, paring emergency reserves to pay for it, in what could be the last budget ahead of an ...

Francophonie Month is celebrated every March, dedicated to honouring the French language and the diverse Francophone cultures around the world. Each year, the celebrations reach Cyprus as well as the ...

Nikki Haley ended her long-shot challenge to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Wednesday, ensuring the former president will be the party’s candidate in a rematch with Democratic President ...

The Cyprus Sevens Championship is back on Saturday, with a day of fantastic rugby forecast in Limassol. We’ve got six men’s teams competing (Limassol Crusaders are fielding two ...

Talks on a ceasefire and hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas were at an impasse on Wednesday, as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepened and a merchant vessel was on ...

No Cypriots were aboard the ship which was hit with a Houthi missile attack, deputy shipping minister Marina Hadjimanolis said on Wednesday evening. The blast on the Red Sea merchant ...

Cyprus has once again lost all credibility following the US sanctions against ex-Israeli intelligence officer Tal Dilian, Akel charged on Wednesday, calling on Christodoulides to take a stand on the ...

The energy regulator (Cera) on Wednesday ruled out a price increase on electricity bills. According to a Cera board decision, “It was decided to keep in force for the year 2024 ...

Russian citizens living in the north are able to vote in the country’s Presidential elections, according to Kibris Postasi. A ballot box has been opened in the building in ...

Cyprus has been urged to cough up its €100 million financial share in the Great Sea Interconnector project in a meeting between Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and Greece’s Independent Power ...

Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Wednesday that Turkey’s current stance on the Cyprus problem is “a complete fiasco”. Speaking to Kibris Postasi, he said Turkey “...

Sheffield United have managed to avoid one unwanted Premier League record but Chris Wilder’s side are on course for another as relegation back to the Championship looms. The bottom ...