Archive 2024

The renovation project of existing spaces and the creation of new ones at the Paphos general hospital is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2024, according to an ...

The public works department has reportedly prepared a study proposing the reduction of the speed limit in certain urban areas from 50km/h to 30km/h. This is aimed at ...

Nintendo (7974.T) shares fell 6 per cent earlier this week after reports by games media and Bloomberg that its next-generation console will be delayed until early 2025 from later this year. While ...

A Vienna court on Friday found Austria’s conservative former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz guilty of perjury and handed him an eight-month suspended prison sentence, dealing a serious blow to any ...

Limassol shipping companies sanctioned by US Companies registered in Cyprus were hit with sanctions on Friday, as the US, UK and Canada sought to toughen the crackdown on Russia, two ...

The Biden administration on Friday said Israel’s expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank are inconsistent with international law, signaling a return to long-standing U.S. policy on ...

CyBC will be paying out over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou, who contracted viral encephalitis from her working conditions, the court ruled on Friday. According to the Nicosia ...

The British woman who reported being gang raped while on holiday in Ayia Napa took the stand at Famagusta criminal court this week. The hearing took place behind closed doors ...

Crime per capita in Cyprus has risen for the second consecutive year, according to the police’s annual statistics report. The report shows that the “crime index”, the ratio of ...

LGBT right’s group, Rainbow Families Cy, on Friday called on authorities to take issues of hate speech seriously, instead of allowing extremist rhetoric to grow, following homophobic rhetoric of ...

Sun, beach and plenty of fun! It may be a little while away yet pretty soon, the coastline of Cyprus will fill with events and travellers. Gearing up for another ...

Despite a record number of visitors last year, there is a growing gap between the number of arrivals to Cyprus and occupancy levels, due both to tourists going to stay ...

The White House escalated its criticism of Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, accusing him of benefiting Iran and Russia by not putting a national security bill ...

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday, as the media conglomerate battled a weak advertising market and the fallout of the twin Hollywood strikes on ...

The construction of the new central prison building by 2026 will significantly alleviate the issue of overcrowding in prisons, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. He was speaking after meeting ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) on Friday announced that it has become a member of the EuroCTP consortium, a collaborative initiative involving several European exchanges. EuroCTP, established in August 2023, aims ...

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal on Friday over the removal of her British citizenship. The British government ...

Ukraine has launched investigations into more than 122,000 suspected cases of war crimes since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly two years ago, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said ...

The Nicosia Municipality has spent €11 million on social integration programmes in the last 12 years, Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Friday. Speaking at a ceremony presenting the results to date of ...

Turkish energy company Aksa made $1 billion (€924 million) in profit in Cyprus since 2000, Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers chairman Ayer Yarkiner claimed on Friday. Yarkiner at a joint press conference ...

With leaders Liverpool otherwise engaged this weekend Manchester City and Arsenal have the chance to close the gap in what is brewing to be the closest Premier League title race ...

An increase of 472 per cent in cases against the state for asylum applications was recorded from 2020 to 2023, the legal service announced on Friday. However, there was a nine per cent ...

The Head of Deloitte Academy, Christina Themistocleous, embarked on a journey to Nairobi, Kenya, driven by the aspiration to offer voluntary assistance to students and aid them in realising their ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities will carry out a full “academic audit” regarding the scandal of fake diplomas which has erupted in the north in recent days. Speaking at a press conference ...