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The Bank of England held interest rates at 5.0 per cent on Thursday and voted to run down its stock of British government bonds by another 100 billion pounds over the coming 12 ...

Russia’s campaign of air strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid probably violates international humanitarian law, a U.N. monitoring body said on Thursday, as Ukrainians prepare for the toughest ...

Cyprus’ first ever national cybersecurity exercise was a “success”, the communications commissioner’s office said on Thursday. The exercise, named ‘CyberCyprus 2024’, took place on Wednesday, with the communications commissioner’s ...

The Nicosia property market is experiencing strong demand for second-floor apartments, according to real estate analytics firm Ask Wire. The company also reported notable differences in asking prices, with amounts ...

More than 130 world leaders will meet at the United Nations next week, faced with wars in the Middle East and Europe threatening to spread, frustration at the slow pace of ...

Singapore is one of the rising markets for online casinos. The number of people who engage in online gambling from Singapore has been on the hike in recent years. Singapore, ...

A British tourist was on Thursday sentenced to two months in prison in the north after having been convicted for the possession of cannabis. The man appeared in front of ...

National investment promotion agency, known as Invest Cyprus, on Thursday announced that it recently participated in the India Mediterranean Business Conclave 2024. The event, held on September 6 in New Delhi, was ...

The UN General Assembly in New York next week will be crucial for the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said in Athens on Thursday after he met Greece’s Prime ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was on Thursday fitted with a permanent pacemaker. Northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital’s chief physician Adil Ozyilkan explained that the operation ...

The audit office assured on Thursday it was continuing its work, after its chief was fired a day earlier. Deputy Auditor-General Kyriacos Kyriacou said audits were still continuing in the ...

Financial literacy and robust regulation are essential to strengthening household financial behaviour, according to a number of experts at a conference organised by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) and ...

The number of arrests made in connection with the violent episodes which broke out at Sunday’s abandoned Limassol derby between Ael and Apollon rose to ten on Thursday, with ...

City of Dreams Mediterranean on Wednesday evening celebrated the official opening of the Marcos Baghdatis Tennis Academy. The resort described the event as the mark of “the beginning of a ...

Ask a thousand Cypriots what’s their favourite tavern on the island and you’ll get almost a thousand different answers. The purists will favour the food above all, for ...

Eurobank Cyprus on Thursday announced the appointment of Andreas Petsas as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following a decision by the bank’s board of directors. According to the ...

A fire in the Limassol district village of Alektora burned a total of a hectare of a half of land on Wednesday night. The land burnt was mostly forest scrub ...

A urologist was fined after the health insurers’ organisation (HIO) found various irregularities in his expenses claims for the month of August, including that he had claimed expenses for scanning ...

Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides took part in the Learning Innovation Summit 2024 at the University of Nicosia, where he underlined the crucial role of the EU AI Act. Commenting on this ...

A storm system that has wreaked havoc across central Europe brought devastating floods to the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on Thursday, forcing people to leave their homes and the ...

When a wildfire tore down a hillside towards Athens last month, its southernmost flank halted in a treeless area burned by fire two years before. A few miles west, however, ...

A 43-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder in court in Trikomo on Wednesday after having allegedly killed a man by dousing him in petrol and setting him and his ...

Akel on Thursday said it was organising a protest against the dismissal of now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides outside the presidential palace. The protest will take place on Sunday at 4...

A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a mobile phone and of living illegally in Cyprus, police in the Famagusta district announced on Thursday. Famagusta district police ...