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Parliamentarians on Tuesday sent a bill aiming to beef up existing regulations about vehicle recalls to a plenum vote on Thursday, following the outcry over the dangerous Takata airbags that ...

‘Tis the season of Christmas markets and bazaars, the perfect time for gift browsing from local vendors and artists or simply enjoying a jolly day out and about. This month ...

Sexist comments aired on TV by former football player Costas Malekkos who said women should accept that men are in charge “have taken us 100 years back”, the single parents association ...

The Pasydy civil servants union on Tuesday condemned an apparent assault on a department of fisheries official, calling such incidents unacceptable. According to a statement by the union, the incident ...

Over 2,600 traffic violations were recorded nationwide during traffic stops last week, police said on Tuesday. The were offences clocked outside of the automated traffic cameras system. According to police, between ...

A symbolic olive tree was planted by Cypriots in London to mark 50 years since the invasion of Cyprus, they announced on Tuesday. The ceremony was organised by National Federation of ...

MPs are in January expected to vote into law a bill setting a price cap on bottled water in a bid to protect consumers from exploitation. During the latest round ...

Syria’s new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former rebels who toppled President Bashar ...

One in four workers are on low wages, a research institute affiliated with the left-leaning Peo union said on Tuesday outlining how income distribution has tilted away from salaried employees ...

By Helen ReidWorkers in some of the world’s biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, ...

By Kate Abnett and Alison WithersThis year will be the world’s warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months ...

Four new buses, from an order of nine specially designed for people with disabilities, were delivered to the transport ministry on Tuesday. The buses with lifting platforms have the capability ...

An NGO chairwoman was remanded on Tuesday after €122,000 appears to have been misspent from the Limassol organisation’s account. The Nicosia district court heard that 51 invoices with a total value ...

Turkey’s justice minister said on Tuesday the pro-Kurdish DEM Party’s application to meet jailed Kurdish militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan was under consideration, without giving details. “The process ...

Short-termism has become a dominant feature of the investment landscape. Amid market volatility, geopolitical tensions and an overwhelming flow of news, staying focused on the bigger picture has become more ...

The cumulative results of decades of work and advances in medicine are reflected in the increased survival of thalassaemia patients, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Tuesday. “Cyprus has perhaps ...

Young people must take up the fight for a nuclear-free world, with such weapons many times more powerful than in the past, a representative for this year’s Nobel Peace ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence chief said on Tuesday that Russia was close to achieving its goals in Ukraine with Moscow holding what he said was the strategic ...

A fast-track process for low-impact developments has come into force for building permits filed before July 1, the interior ministry announced on Tuesday. The measure is being implemented by decree for ...

The crisis in Syria has been included in the European Council agenda at the request of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday, pointing out that the country’s new ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks on Tuesday expressed its readiness to adjust interest rates tied to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) base rate immediately after the ECB’s forthcoming ...

A detention centre for juvenile offenders is to be up and running by January 1, 2026 at the latest, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Tuesday. The minister joined a round-table discussion ...

The UK will support Cyprus in establishing a new National Sanctions Implementation Unit to crack down on illicit Russian finance flowing through Europe, Keir Starmer’s office announced on Tuesday, ...

GDEV, a global gaming company based in Limassol, recently teamed up with InvestGame to examine the IPO landscape of 87 gaming firms with a combined valuation exceeding $350 billion. The gaming sector, ...