Archive 2024

Last Tuesday, February 20, the Greek Minister of Shipping, Christos Stylianides, who is of Cypriot extraction, told the Greek parliament that the time has come to seek the liberation and reunification ...

US and British forces carried out strikes against more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, officials said, the latest round of military action against the Iran-linked group ...

Bitcoin (BTC) drove MicroStrategy’s stock prices to new heights as it briefly touched $800. MicroStrategy’s growth led to many predictions that the corporation could join the most profitable US ...

In reforming the Cyprus tax system basic conditions of adequacy, fairness, and its effective and uncomplicated administration should be met While the Cyprus government is repeatedly advertising the good performance ...

Following its third year of completion, the mind REset educational environmental programme has established itself as a great institution, aiming to cultivate environmental awareness in children, the future citizens of ...

Donald Trump easily defeated Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s Republican contest on Saturday, extending his winning streak as he marches toward a third consecutive presidential nomination and a rematch ...

A 5.8-magnitude struck Akqi County in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region at 12:14 p.m. (0414 GMT) on Sunday, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said. The quake was at a depth ...

By James Horncastle and Jack Adam MacLennan The recent death of Alexei Navalny brought immediate condemnations from world leaders, with the American president immediately pointing the finger of blame at ...

There was pandemonium in the mother of parliaments at Westminster last Wednesday when the Scottish National Party (SNP) was prevented from having a vote on a call for a ceasefire ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting February 19: On Monday, the Bank of Cyprus unveiled its financial results for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, which ...

COMING up to his first anniversary in office and opinion polls indicating that his popularity has nosedived, Prezniktwo has launched yet another charm offensive, this time targeting the new voters – ...

Nestle (NESN.S) reported full-year organic sales growth slightly below expectations on Thursday as the world’s biggest packaged food company continued to hike prices, prompting some shoppers to turn ...

President Nikos Christodoulides told a group of secondary school students he met on Friday that the government would soon hold non-binding referenda, because it “sincerely believed in participatory democracy” and ...

Edible electronics are being developed to assist rescue operations and go inside hospital patients, setting the stage for all-consuming tech to become consumable. By Anthony King Professor Dario Floreano is ...

Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI has completed a deal that values the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of ...

The US government is awarding $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) to subsidize semiconductor production, the first major award from a $39 billion fund approved by Congress in 2022 to bolster domestic chip ...

Investment banks Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and Macquarie (MQG.AX) as well as some hedge funds are positioning themselves to reap the benefits of a newly buoyant uranium sector as ...

63 per cent of poll respondents felt the country is headed in the wrong direction Almost exactly a year after coming to power, the ‘honeymoon period’ for President Nikos Christodoulides appears ...

A memorial event in honour of former President Spyros Kyprianou was organised on Saturday in Paphos, on the occasion of the relocation of his bust from Spyros Kyprianou Avenue to ...

A collective apology is owed to the relatives of the missing, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Saturday, as he attended the funeral of a man who died during the ...

As spring approaches and nature blossoms again, the art world turns its focus to the environment. An upcoming exhibition in Limassol places nature in the spotlight and is currently accepting ...

Protests mark 2 years of Russia’s invasion Hundreds of people took to the streets in Cyprus on Saturday, to protest against the two years of Russia’s ongoing war against ...

Protestors on Saturday demanded that trees cut down at Limassol’s Dasoudi area should be replaced, as they slammed authorities for felling over 50 trees. Holding placards saying, ‘I can’t ...

A 28-year-old man who attacked someone with a kitchen knife in Lakatamia on Saturday was arrested a few hours after the incident, police confirmed. Officers are trying to assess whether ...