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By Daniel Prince Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of humans, invoking images of ...

South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting age took effect, replacing the country’s traditional ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday is headed to Brussels for the two-day European Union Summit. The final text of the summit conclusion is expected to make reference on the readiness ...

Neapolis University Pafos received the General Service Award at the Cyprus Export Awards 2021, which took place successfully earlier this month. President Nikos Christodoulides presented the award to President of Neapolis ...

Wildfires burning through large swathes of eastern and western Canada have released a record 160 million tonnes of carbon, the EU’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service said on Tuesday. This year’...

Four days of party music are coming up as the annual Loud Music Festival, or LMF, returns. Besides bringing with it new artists, performances, DJs and stages, the festival moves ...

In today’s episode, with tankers blocking central roads in Nicosia, the association of petrol station owners on Tuesday protested unfair competition from illegal imports of fuel from the north ...

The phenomenon of ‘brain drain’ may not be as dire in Cyprus as in other countries but it is concerning, according to House speaker Annita Demetriou. Speaking at the University ...

Anticipated changes to electricity and fuel subsidies are expected to be announced on Wednesday following the meeting of the council of ministers. “Fiscal responsibility requires for the state to not ...

An Egyptian man who underwent surgery after being stabbed with a knife, is refusing to cooperate with police in the case. According to head of CID, Michalis Nicolaou, the 36-year-old ...

A French police officer is being investigated for homicide after shooting dead a 17-year-old on Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after the youth failed to comply with ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old man after stolen items were found at his residence. According to police statement, the 28-year-old suspect was already in custody when a search carried ...

General Sergey Surovikin, the deputy commander of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, had advance knowledge that the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning a rebellion against Moscow’s defence ...

The death toll has risen to eight from Russia’s attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s emergency services said on Wednesday, adding that 56 people were injured. ...

On Wednesday after dispersal of thin fog, the weather will be mostly clear. Locally increased cloud cover in the afternoon is expected to bring showers, mainly in the mountains and ...

The Cypriot flag has been included among the flags of countries listed in the white list of the Paris and Tokyo memoranda, according to Deputy Minister for Shipping Marina Hadjimanoli. ...

Total petroleum product sales in Cyprus reached 122,581 metric tons in May 2023, marking a 1.4 per cent increase compared to May 2022, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical ...

Online’s share of Britain’s grocery market slowed further in June as hot weather encouraged shoppers to visit stores for drinks and refreshments, industry data showed on Tuesday. Market ...

What would Satoshi make of it all? Bitcoin, the currency created to subvert the financial establishment, has shaken off weeks of sickness with the support of Wall Street’s finest. ...

By Efi Xanthou On Friday, June 23, the House of Representatives hosted a seminar presenting part of the Fit for 55 EU package, essentially the EU’s target of reducing net greenhouse ...

Petrol station owners blocked Nicosia roads with tankers on Tuesday to protest the loss of business from those smuggling fuel from the north. They seem to have adjusted their rhetoric. ...

Key public offices on Tuesday signed a new protocol to better combat animal poisoning cases with a focus on rural areas. The police, game and fauna fund, the state laboratories, ...

MPs at the House labour committee heard on Tuesday that the bill to regulate remote working will be delayed until after the summer recess. Head of the committee Andreas Kafkalias ...

Cyprus has the highest number of incarcerated women, amounting to 9.5 per cent of the prison population, the 2022 annual statistics published by the Council of Europe revealed on Tuesday. According to ...