Second suspect remanded in connection with Paphos abduction
A second suspect has been remanded for seven days in connection with the abduction of a 23-year-old man earlier this week in Paphos.
Police had arrested the 29-year-old man as ...
BoC asset quality and deposit base praised after rating upgrade
Limassol-based rating agency Capital Intelligence this week announced that it has upgraded the Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) of the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) to ‘BB’, from ‘BB-‘.
In ...
North deports 4,000 irregular migrants in seven months
In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...
Putin sounds out military commanders on Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from his armed forces commanders on how they think Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine should proceed during a visit to the operation’s ...
Larnaca continues mosquito spraying
Larnaca is continuing to spray against the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, as weather conditions are enabling their growth, the municipality announced on Friday.
The health ministry and municipality are also working ...
The way the cookie crumbles
How is Alexander the Great related to chocolate chip cookies asks ANDRY VOSKARIDOU
In the unlikely case you don’t know what cookies are, they are a magical tiny indulgence ...
Despina Bebedeli returns to Rialto to perform in Doubt
John Patrick Shanley’s renowned play Doubt, written in 2004, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, and became widely known through its film adaptation in 2008. Starring Meryl Streep ...
Dreams shattered, Croatia and Morocco dust themselves off for bronze
As Croatia and Morocco pick up the pieces after their World Cup semi-finals defeats, the two teams will welcome the prospect of potentially leaving Qatar on a high when they ...
No evidence of space aliens so far in the Pentagon’s UFO deep-dive
The Pentagon’s new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders ...
Pope Francis orders return to Greece of Parthenon sculptures held in Vatican
Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century.
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Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists after suspensions draw backlash
Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane.
The reinstatements came ...
Cyprus Business Now
The Bank of Cyprus was named Bank of the Year in Cyprus for 2022 by the international magazine ‘The Banker’.
According to an announcement from the Bank of Cyprus, Panicos Nicolaou, ...
Innovative Cypriot company making waves by raising more funding
Innovative company Irerobot is aiming to establish a significant presence in the EU research and development ecosystem, focusing on projects that have a positive human, social and environmental impact.
The ...
Central Bank digital currencies as weapons of finance?
By Maria Demertzis
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have become a reality in ten countries: a number of countries in the Caribbean plus Nigeria. As a digital equivalent of a ...
Russia’s Urals oil averaged $57.49/bbl in past month, below price cap
The average price for Russia’s Urals oil blend was $57.49 per barrel between Nov. 15 and Dec. 14, Russia’s Finance Ministry said late on Thursday, below the Western cap of $60.
That ...
Prison phone scandal deepens
The scandal of mobile phone use in the Nicosia prison deepened this week as the company tasked with upgrading the system to deactivate phones said it had inadvertently reconnected some ...
Our View: Qatar hosting the World Cup has been a mixed bag
The 22nd World Cup, the first played in an Arab country, comes to a close on Sunday evening in a box-office final between holders France and Argentina, top football forces, ...
British Airways, Virgin Atlantic limit ticket sales to Heathrow due to strikes
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will limit ticket sales for flights to London’s Heathrow Airport during planned strikes by border agents over Christmas and New Year’s Eve to ...
Peru ministers resign after protest deaths as new government wobbles
Pressure rose on Peru’s fledgling government Friday as two cabinet members resigned following deadly protests that have rocked the country since former President Pedro Castillo’s removal from office ...
Mexican president condemns gun attack on prominent journalist
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday condemned an apparent assassination attempt on a prominent news anchor and critic of the president who said assailants had opened fire on ...
U.N. shelves bid by Afghan Taliban, Myanmar junta for representation
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved postponing – for the second time – a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ...
Changes to social insurance contributions afoot from 2023
The island’s social insurance service on Friday announced changes to social insurance contributions from January next year.
According to the Social Insurance Laws of 2010-2022, as of January 2023, the ...
Nicolaou’s stint at the helm of BoC extended until 2026
Panicos Nicolaou’s term in office as Chief Executive Officer (Ceo) of the Bank of Cyprus has been extended for another 4 years.
During meetings on Friday, the Boards of Directors ...
Libyan GNU govt refuses Egypt’s move on maritime borders’ demarcation
Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU) refused an Egyptian presidency decree unilaterally demarcating Egypt’s western maritime borders, the Libyan foreign ministry said in a statement on its Facebook ...