Archive 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O), including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter ...

Buying a new home in Britain became a little more affordable this year as average wages rose faster than house prices and mortgage costs, the country’s largest mortgage lender ...

Most major stock markets will fail to even repeat this year’s lacklustre performance in 2025 based on the prospect of global trade tensions and a worsening inflation outlook holding back ...

The old Polis Chrysochous municipal market building is to be demolished after standing empty and unused for years, it was reported on Thursday. The proposal came from mayor Yiotis Papachristofis ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand. The president, ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind intersecting trackways alongside the footprints of ...

Russian and Syrian warplanes bombed rebel-held northwest Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday to push back an insurgent offensive that captured territory for the first time in years, ...

Georgia’s ruling party said on Thursday that the country would suspend talks on European Union accession until 2028, while also refusing budgetary grants from Brussels, effectively halting its application to ...

A blood donation event was held in Ayia Napa on Tuesday in memory of the three victims of a tragic car accident in Frenaros. The Municipality of Ayia Napa organised ...

The House plenum on Thursday greenlit a law that makes ‘revenge porn’ a criminal offence, regardless of the victim’s gender, and punishable by up to 14 years in jail where ...

The government on Thursday signed a contract worth almost €3.5 million for improvement works on the Paphos-Polis road. The contract was given to Araco Construction CY Limited. According to an announcement ...

Romania’s top court on Thursday ordered a recount of votes in the first round of the presidential election and the country’s top security body warned Romania was a ...

KENO Publications welcomes a renowned New York based poet, writer and performer in Cyprus next week. Sean Patrick Mulroy will be in Nicosia for a limited series of literary events ...

Unions representing state doctors on Thursday refuted reports that lives were put at risk during the 48-hour strike, complaining of a concerted attack via the media to besmirch them. In ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed into law on Thursday Ukraine’s first wartime tax increases as the war against Russia reaches its 34th month. Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenkko said that the ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Thursday to reduce the number of migrants coming to Britain, saying he would produce a plan for reform of the points-based immigration system that ...

In 2023, 86.6 per cent of children in Cyprus aged between three years and the minimum compulsory school age received formal childcare or education for at least 25 hours per week, compared to 68 ...

Cyprus-based Ralliton and global software provider SoftwareOne Holding AG this week announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership. According to the announcement, the partnership aims to deliver advanced ...

US holiday shoppers have big plans to use small screens for a head start this year on Thanksgiving Day, and retailers have spent weeks priming them, touting pre-Black Friday online ...

A new tender is to be opened for the operation and maintenance of the Larnaca marina, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, ...

Children of Greek Cypriot parents resettling in the north will now receive the same monthly allowance as students from enclaved families, following a new cabinet decision aimed at supporting families ...

The north plans to increase the minimum number of votes required for a political party to be elected to ‘parliament’, transport minister Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking to Kibris ...

Proceedings in the trial of ex volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki were cut short on Thursday after his lawyer, Yiannis Polychronis, walked out following a warning from the judge about contempt ...

Former Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard has been appointed manager of Coventry City on a two-and-a-half-year contract, the second-tier Championship club said on Thursday. Lampard replaces Mark Robins, who ...