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By Kelvin (Shiu Fung) Wong Spotify this week just released its 2024 Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming site’s annual presentation of each user’s yearly listening habits. It gives you ...

The leaders of France and Poland will hold talks on Ukraine on Thursday, including the possibility of sending European troops there as a security guarantee in the event of a ...

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he was pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others who were serving long prison terms. ...

The House of Representatives unanimously accepted President Nikos Christodoulides’ referral regarding the second amendment to the Constitution, which enshrines the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Following ...

In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for ...

Cyprus is the only state outside Nato and its Partnership for Peace programme that has been included in the list of countries eligible to participate in US military training programmes ...

A touted “pay as you throw” waste management programme is close to implementation, perhaps as early as next year, according to Environment Department director Elena Stylianopoulou on Thursday. “Its main ...

Ex auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said he had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday over being fired, just hours after he told state TV that he was ...

All pending student grants for the 2023-24 academic year will be paid by next week, the welfare benefits and grants service said on Thursday. The grants cover a living allowance, ...

The chamber of mechanical engineers in the north slammed Turkish Cypriot authorities on Thursday for failing to address the Takata airbags defect even after a fatality linked to the faulty ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) has announced the suspension of trading for Hellenic Bank’s Tier 1 and Tier 2 Convertible Capital Securities, effective from Thursday, December 19, 2024. This decision follows Hellenic Bank’...

President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Thursday his vision of transforming Cyprus from a consumer of defence products to a producer. “I am announcing a series of targeted measures to further ...

MPs on Thursday narrowly approved a controversial bill to raise the levy on net betting earnings, aiming to provide increased financial support to football clubs and their academies. The bill ...

Chelsea’s impressive form will be severely tested by two eight-hour flights and temperatures well below freezing for their UEFA Conference League clash against Kazakhstan’s Astana, manager Enzo Maresca ...

Tottenham Hotspur will be without both their first-choice central defenders Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven for Thursday’s Europa League trip to Rangers, manager Ange Postecoglou has confirmed. ...

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim said the departure of sporting director Dan Ashworth was a difficult situation for the club but that nothing had changed in terms of their aims. ...

The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) hit 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday, putting an exclamation point on a year in which excitement over artificial intelligence and expectations of falling interest ...

Russia’s state oil firm Rosneft (ROSN.MM) has agreed to supply nearly 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude to Indian private refiner Reliance (RELI.NS) in the biggest ever ...

The Akamas Presidential Villa at Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort sets new standards for luxury accommodation in Cyprus. Spanning an impressive 990 sq.m of indoor and outdoor space, this ...

First Lady Philippa Karsera-Christodoulides inaugurated XeniArtSpace, a new art gallery, on December 10, 2024, enriching the cultural scene not only of Limassol, but of Cyprus at large. XeniArtSpace, located at the west ...

MPs will be called to vote on over 100 bills and proposed legislation on Thursday, in the last plenum before the House passes the state budgets just in time for the ...

Replacements and recalls due to faulty car components will take years not months to process, it was reported on Thursday. The public had been lead to believe that recall issues ...

At least 35 Palestinians were killed early on Thursday in Israeli bombings of various areas in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Children and women were among seven ...

The next two weekends are possibly the busiest of December as the lead-up to Christmas causes high anticipation! Now is the time to enjoy all that the island’s creatives ...