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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for increased international pressure on Israel to ensure more humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza, and said Ankara will increase its support during ...

MPs heard on Tuesday that out of some 230,000 registered companies, so far only 140,000 have updated their records regarding their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), the rest facing hefty fines if they ...

Bringing together artistic practices and international exchange centring around exile and displacement, the ASSEMBLE programme presents a new exhibition in Nicosia. The group exhibition will take over Goethe-Institut on March 22...

Lawmakers on Tuesday complained that the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) is being mismanaged and operates with subpar transparency, as the organisation sought parliament’s nod for its 2024 budget. The 2024 ...

The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed the need for the government to set up a labour compensation fund. “We have sent a request to the labour minister, to determine ...

A recent judgment of the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) could pave the way for thousands of civil servants on fixed-term employment to become permanent workers, Isotita union said ...

The Nicosia military court acquitted the sole defendant in the case concerning the accident that saw 27-year-old Corporal Natali Neophytou die while on military duty, it emerged on Tuesday. The ...

Odds-on favourite State Man won the Champion Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday. The Willie Mullins-trained seven-year-old, ridden by Irish jockey Paul Townend, turned on ...

Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would open-source its ChatGPT challenger “Grok” this week, days after he sued OpenAI for abandoning its original mission in favor ...

A Romanian court approved a request from Britain to extradite internet personality Andrew Tate, but postponed doing so until Romanian trial proceedings finish, it said on Tuesday. The court also ...

By Renju Jose Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major coral bleaching event, with the results consistent with patterns of heat stress that have built up ...

By Ilze Filks Swedish police on Tuesday forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists who were blocking the entrance to parliament for a second day, driving them away in ...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undermining Israel with his approach to the war in Gaza and urged the country to change ...

The Famagusta Tourism Board (Etap) and businesspeople of the district were at the “ITB BERLIN 2024” international tourism exhibition, held last week, in an effort to promote bookings in Germany. Giorgos ...

Armed fighters purporting to be Russian citizens who oppose the Kremlin said they carried out cross-border incursions into western Russia from Ukraine using tanks on Tuesday, but Moscow said it ...

Microplastics, including bottle caps and a Halloween toy, were found in the stomachs of 135 loggerhead turtles washed up or killed on the shores of northern Cyprus, research showed on Tuesday. ...

The Cyprus economy has showcased its strong resilience, in a particularly difficult period recording, “comparatively one of the highest growth rates in the European Union,” said Dr Giorgos Mountis, CEO ...

A 60-year-old Limassol resident has lost €55,000 in an online scam, police said on Tuesday. According to the police report, the man made a complaint to Limassol CID that between 2020 and 2021, ...

Larnaca district court on Tuesday handed a seven-year prison sentence to a 30-year-old man found guilty of child sexual abuse. A police report said that “according to the evidence gathered ...

Liverpool have to fight in every game in their bid for the Premier League title in a race between the top three, manager Jurgen Klopp said after his side fell ...

Two men suspected of people smuggling were remanded for eight days on Tuesday by the Famagusta District Court. The two men, 41 and 23, were found on a sixth boat of migrants ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Holguin on Saturday, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. The meeting follows one that ...

Finance minister Makis Keravnos expressed satisfaction with the eurozone’s fiscal policy orientation for 2025, as Cyprus’ conservative fiscal approach was already in line with it. He added that the joint ...

Eurozone finance ministers decided to gradually phase out energy support measures in 2024 in favour of fiscal prudence, aimed at reducing government deficits. The gradual abolition of energy support measures was ...