Archive March 2025

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu had expected to become Turkey’s opposition presidential nominee on March 23, 2025; instead, he lost his freedom and college ...

Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor Christodoulos Patsalides on Friday highlighted the country’s economic transformation in recent years, while also outlining the challenges that lie ahead. Speaking at a ...

Intel’s incoming CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered significant changes to its chip manufacturing methods and artificial intelligence strategies, two people familiar with Tan’s thinking told Reuters, in a ...

The light-based internet project Taara is departing Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator X and spinning off into an independent company.  Taara’s technology uses lasers to transmit data and is seen ...

Tech companies must start putting in place measures to protect users from child sexual abuse images and other illegal content in Britain from Monday as enforcement of its online safety ...

The first witness in the trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as ...

Every year, deputies vote through an extension to the deadline for paying road tax for the year by two-and-a-half months. Instead of paying the following year’s road tax by ...

US President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, ...

Billionaire Elon Musk took his campaign to cut the US federal government into uncharted waters on Friday, holding an unprecedented top-level meeting at the Pentagon and calling for the prosecution ...

The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets in northern Nicosia on Friday evening to protest against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The protest was organised by the Cyprus ...

Pope Francis is slowly regaining his strength in hospital but must “relearn to speak” after prolonged use of high-flow oxygen therapy, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said on Friday. The cardinal, ...

US authorities said on Friday they are closing Canadian access to a library straddling the Canada-US border, drawing criticism from a Quebec town where people have long enjoyed easy entry ...

Many people associate physical fitness solely with exercise or sports. However, it is much more than that – it is the key to longevity and a life full of health and ...

The EU Agency for Asylum delivered 62 reception units on Friday to Cyprus’ asylum service, for the needs of the Pournara migrant reception centre. In a post on Faceboo, the agency ...

The Limassol municipality and City Friends Club are coming together to support Earth Hour 2025, a global movement that raises awareness about climate change and environmental protection. Earth Hour is a ...

The use of freshwater resources in Cyprus is “unsustainable”, Eurostat said on Friday, in an article to mark World Water Day, celebrated on March 22. “With temperatures rising every year, droughts ...

The Nicosia District Court issued an eight-day remand order on Friday against a 32-year-old man, who was arrested for facilitating interrogations regarding ongoing cases of robbery and extortion of money ...

The Israeli military said on Friday it killed the head of Hamas’ military intelligence in southern Gaza on Thursday. In a statement, the military named the Hamas leader as Osama ...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a habeas corpus ad subjiciendum demand for release filed by an international protection applicant, who had admitted various crimes, including murder, to the police. ...

The road transport department (TOM) has updated its Takata airbag recall list, as over a hundred cars under recall are now to be immobilised immediately, after information received from CIC ...

A flamenco production is approaching as the Flamenco Theater De Las Llamas presents a dance performance which tells the stories of five women through the language of flamenco. Audiences in ...

A group of Cypriots staged a protest in Nicosia on Friday afternoon against the escalating violence in Gaza and the violation of the agreed ceasefire by Israel forces. The protest ...

This year’s plan to subsidise holidays for people with disabilities was announced on Friday by the department for the social integration of the disabled. The scheme was approved by ...