Man arrested at Paphos airport with 15kg of cannabis (Update)
A 30-year-old man was remanded for eight days by the Paphos district court on Wednesday, after being discovered carrying over a dozen kilos of cannabis.
Police said the man had ...
Further ECB rate hikes can’t be ruled out, Finland’s Valimaki says
The European Central Bank has done enough for now to combat inflation but a further increase in interest rates later on cannot be ruled out, Bank of Finland board member ...
Today’s weather: Mostly clear, mountain rains
Wednesday will start off mostly clear with increasing clouds in the afternoon expected to bring isolated rains and a possible storm in the west and south, and in the mountains. ...
Russia’s Gazprom says European energy security system unstable
Russian energy giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said on Tuesday that Europe, which used to be its main source of revenue, is short of natural gas and may face challenges, more ...
Online fashion retailer Boohoo cuts outlook, shares sink
British online fashion retailer Boohoo (BOOH.L) slid to a loss after revenue fell 17 per cent in its first-half and said a slower than expected recovery in sales volumes could ...
UK’s Greggs shows resilience with quarterly sales rise
British baker and fast food chain Greggs (GRG.L) kept its full-year outlook as underlying sales rose in the third quarter and it won market share, showing the resilience of ...
Wildlife and development simply cannot co-exist
You cannot hope for success in promoting Akamas as a nature destination while also allowing development to encroach and expand
With wildlife tourism, you really cannot have your cake and ...
Our View: President now bound to make wrong choice over police chief
The replacement – or not – of police chief Stelios Papatheodorou has dragged on for a month, with President Nikos Christodoulides still unable to decide what to do. The chief has refused ...
EU lawmakers back tough media law against Big Tech’s content removal decisions
EU lawmakers on Tuesday voted for draft rules targeting Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms, and other large online platforms’ content moderation restrictions after some media outlets complained about arbitrary decisions ...
Cryptoverse: ‘It’s a knife fight’ as traders get tokenized
Bitcoin? It’s a bit old hat, say a cohort of crypto investors who are betting on blockchain technology breathing new life into traditional assets.
As crypto prices see-saw ahead ...
Canada picks first Black House speaker
Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday elected Greg Fergus as its new speaker, making the Liberal Party lawmaker the first Black Canadian to hold the post after the previous ...
Wonderful Wahi helps Lens beat Arsenal 2-1, Man United misery continues
RC Lens forward Elye Wahi scored one goal and set up another as his side beat Arsenal 2-1 to top Champions League Group B as they celebrated the return of ...
Russian prosecutors want to jail fugitive TV journalist for 9-1/2 years
Russian prosecutors have demanded a nine-and-a-half-year jail sentence for fugitive former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for bursting into a news broadcast with a placard that read “Stop the ...
Government is investing in culture, Christodoulides says
The government is investing in culture and targeting young people with that investment, according to President Nikos Christodoulides.
Christodoulides was speaking on Tuesday evening at the opening ceremony of the ...
US senators examine TikTok hiring of ByteDance executives
Two US senators said they were investigating short video sharing app TikTok’s reported decision recently to hire several high-level executives from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
Senators Richard Blumenthal, ...
Serbia detains Kosovo Serb politician over deadly Kosovo shootout
Serbian authorities on Tuesday detained Kosovo Serb politician Milan Radoicic and accused him of manufacturing firearms and trafficking them to Kosovo,after he said he was involved in a deadly ...
Portugal to ditch tax breaks for foreign residents amid housing crisis
Tax breaks for foreign residents in Portugal are “no longer justified”, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said, promising to close the scheme for new applicants in 2024 after it stoked housing prices ...
Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to gun charges in Delaware court
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he lied about his drug use while buying a handgun, in the first-ever criminal prosecution ...
Two Cypriot banks have credit ratings upgraded
Two Cypriot banks, the Bank of Cyprus and the Hellenic Bank, had their credit ratings upgraded by investment service Moody’s on Monday.
Both had their long-term deposit ratings increased ...
India police raid media office, journalists’ homes in illegal funding probe
Indian police raided the New Delhi office of a news portal and the homes of journalists and writers linked to it on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected ...
MPs call for more support for cottage industries
The development of cottage industries in Cyprus is virtually non-existent, MPs said on Tuesday, proposing ways to promote the marketing of traditional Cypriot products.
Lawmakers heard, for example, that to ...
Arrest after man found with cannabis, ancient artefacts
British bases police arrested a 50-year-old man from Dasaki Achnas on Tuesday after 1kg of cannabis and “objects resembling ancient artefacts” were found in his home.
According to the Cyprus ...
Cypriot MPs meet Armenian president, prime minister
A delegation of Cypriot deputies met the Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday.
The deputies form the delegation of the Cyprus-Armenia interparliamentary cooperation committee and ...
Moldova clears way for members of banned pro-Russia party to run in elections
Moldova’s Constitutional Court cleared the way on Tuesday for members of a banned pro-Russian party to run in local elections as independent candidates or as members of other parties.
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