Archive 2025

The House plenum on Thursday evening approved the 2025 budget for the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) amid a lively debate over the delays in the advent of natural gas for ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the tariffs that would be imposed on the United States’ trading partners, in what he described as ‘liberation day’ for America. Many in the ...

The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of an unclassified commercial texting application to coordinate ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end the ‘hiring freeze’ on vacated permanent positions in the public sector, reversing a policy instituted twelve years ago. The repeal act ...

South Korea’s Constitutional Court will rule on Friday whether to remove or reinstate impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration that sparked a crisis in ...

Russia’s general prosecutor on Thursday banned the activities of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, accusing it of taking a negative stance towards countries like Russia that protect “traditional spiritual ...

Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria overnight, declaring the attacks a warning to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey on Thursday of trying to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday met with the leadership of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). The president is currently in the United States, heading up a high-level Cypriot ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

Uniswap (UNI), a pillar in the DeFi ecosystem, is making headlines following a critical governance decision. The Uniswap DAO recently approved a $113 million Treasury Delegation program, aiming to bolster governance ...

With April upon us, Holy Week is fast approaching, a time that for many “awakens the soul and fills the heart with renewed hope,” as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra says. ...

MPs on Thursday called for Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou to intervene on the matter of smart bus stops, with some quarters having alleged that they have been erected the wrong way ...

Cyprus is bracing for economic uncertainty as trade tensions within the European Union threaten to create wider instability. While the island nation is not at the centre of the disputes, ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...

While Solana sweeps up dev teams for its lightning-fast chain, Tron is looking for more niche traction with decentralized content distribution. Yet neither can compete with the urgency surrounding this ...

The Consumer Protection Service has issued its first fine for violating the maximum resale price of drinking water in designated areas. The fine was imposed on CE Sportcourt Ltd, the ...

With the crypto community glued to Bitcoin’s latest moves near resistance, a different narrative is quietly playing out among early-stage investors. While BTC battles to reclaim momentum, some are ...

While U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on allies and foes including Europe, India, Japan and China, some of the world’s most heavily sanctioned countries – Russia, Belarus, Cuba ...

Pi Network has recently found itself in troubled waters, with its token plummeting by a staggering 78%, dropping from its February high of $2.98 to a dismal $0.66. Operational bottlenecks like massive KYC ...

Prices of Nike Jordan and Adidas Samba sneakers are likely to rise in the U.S. after President Donald Trump imposed a raft ofnew tariffs on Vietnam, China, and Indonesia, ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday unveiled a raft of proposed amendments to laws concerning local government, with the stated aim of “improving the legislative framework for the benefit of ...

Nintendo said it will launch its Switch 2 gaming device on June 5, with the long-anticipated successor to its hit hybrid home-portable Switch retailing for $449.99. The Kyoto based-company this week announced more ...

A small cooperative of 1,200 stock breeders producing feta, Greece’s trademark white soft cheese, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula had one big target this year: a market foray in the ...

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu applauded Hungary for its “bold and principled” decision to leave the International Criminal Court as he visited Budapest on Thursday, a rare trip abroad in defiance ...