Archive 2024

The proposed reform on waste management – the “pay as you throw” scheme – is expected to result in an annual increase of approximately €140 per person across Cyprus. This reform, which is ...

Since independence, Cypriots have put great value in university education. Parents would put all their savings into their children’s university education, often going without for this purpose, while youngsters ...

A barrage of gunfire erupted on Wednesday in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, near an outdoor celebration of the NFL champion Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory, killing at least one person and ...

A week ago, 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of pasta was enough to feed the dozens of families who visit the Sal de la Tierra soup kitchen in Villa Fiorito, a poor Buenos ...

Russia’s Alliance of Tourist Agents warned Russians to avoid trips to the north, it emerged on Wednesday. Deputy head of the alliance Aleksan Mkrtchyan was speaking on Govorit Moscow ...

The United States on Wednesday said it had imposed sanctions on an Iranian subsidiary of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), two entities based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ...

The new haemodialysis unit at the Paphos general hospital started operating on Wednesday. “No problems were detected from operation testing carried out on the first day,” director of nephrology Dr ...

The interior ministry has announced that it is in the process of examining and evaluating the entire lifeguard system to ensure it is managed more efficiently. This announcement came just ...

The Israeli government said on Wednesday it has approved the use of Starlink satellite services in a field hospital in the war-battered Gaza Strip, and in Israel for the first ...

All members of the Contractors Council should face criminal charges for negligence in failing to properly carry out their duties, Paphos Mayor Phedon Phedonos charged on Wednesday. Speaking during a ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos warned of “catastrophic consequences” should Israel make any moves in Rafah, while he stressed the importance of aid reaching Gaza, in a meeting with his Palestinian ...

Cyprus will have to face the European Court of Justice if it fails to take measures to protect the Akamas peninsula, the Green Party warned on Wednesday. Their call for ...

A new theatrical performance is making its way to Larnaca as the Larnaka 2030 team welcomes Lena Kitsopolou to present her performance Cry. The performance travels to Cyprus for just two ...

Labour’s lead over Britain’s Conservatives has fallen 7 percentage points to its lowest since June 2023, a Savanta poll showed on Wednesday, after the opposition party scrapped a green spending ...

British inflation unexpectedly held steady at 4.0% in January, defying forecasts of a rise, official data showed, offering relief for the Bank of England (BoE) and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak too ...

Ukraine will need $9 billion over 10 years for its culture and tourism sectors to recover, the United Nations’ cultural agency said, adding that the two-year war had so far cost the ...

Israel faced growing international pressure on Wednesday to hold off on a planned assault on the last refuge for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza after truce talks in Cairo ended ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday, accused of having broken his 76-year-old mother’s nose. The police officer speaking in court explained that the man, who ...

The Kansas City Chiefs’ overtime defeat of the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, with Taylor Swift cheering in the stands, drew a record 123.7 million U.S. viewers, according ...

A leading figure in north coalition party the YDP has claimed she was “threatened” by party leader Erhan Arikli after endorsing his opponent Talip Atalay for the upcoming party leadership ...

The European Commission has greenlighted the use of Casgevy gene-therapy to treat beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease, in a move heralded as a “milestone” for the fight against human ...

It is “unacceptable” for Turkish Cypriots to be excluded from the European Union’s Erasmus exchange programme, the European Parliament’s Culture Committee declared on Wednesday. The matter of Turkish ...

A barrage of Israeli strikes on villages across southern Lebanon on Wednesday killed four people and wounded nearly a dozen, two Lebanese security sources said, as Israel intensified its bombardment ...

Products and services associated with Valentine’s Day saw an almost ten per cent increase this year in comparison to last year, the statistical services said on Wednesday. According to ...