Man fined for possession of illegal tobacco products
An out-of-court fine of €1,500 was imposed on a 61-year-old man found to be in possession of a quantity of duty-free tobacco products, police said.
According to police, the man was ...
Xenophon Kallis, champion of missing persons, dies aged 73 (Updated)
Xenophon Kallis, head of the missing persons service at the foreign ministry for many years, has passed away at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, CyBc reported ...
Have You Eaten Yet?
In a ten-day tour of China, Jonathan Shkurko welcomes the serenity efficiency brings, and the outstanding flavours of its rich and varied cuisine
In the grand mosaic of China’s ...
Stripping Russia’s veto power on the Security Council is all but impossible
Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead
By Tamsin Phillipa Paige
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...
Open letter to Christodoulides and Tatar
Dear Nikos and Ersin,
Hello. We are Doga and Liana: two Cypriot teenagers from both sides of the divide. In light of the general assembly in New York, we are ...
Man shot and injured outside his home in Paphos village
Paphos police are investigating an attempted murder in the early hours of Sunday in the village of Psathi, they said.
According to police, a 31-year-old man was shot at around 5.30...
Tottenham prepares for test in North London Derby at Arsenal
The optimism growing around manager Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur squad will be put to its stiffest test yet when they visit Arsenal for Sunday’s North London Derby.
Despite ...
Tatar says no to joint meeting, UN envoy
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received two refusals from the Turkish Cypriot side and one ‘yes’ and one ‘no’ from Turkey to two proposals related to a joint meeting with the ...
Access to justice in Cyprus at last
In England this happened in 1999 and in Cyprus this month so it was about time
The administration of civil justice in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) has a brand new ...
Cyprus Business Now: weekly wrap-up
Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting September 18:
Tourist arrivals to Cyprus witnessed a significant surge of 60,254 visitors in August 2023, a rise of 13.4 per cent ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Virtuous One exposes solidarity of parasites
THE ENGLISH translation of the first name of the deputy government spokesperson, Doxa Komodromou, is ‘glory,’ which is rather unfortunate considering she did not cover herself in glory with her ...
El Paso, Texas ‘at a breaking point’ amid jump in migration, mayor says
The dramatic increase in migrants crossing the U.S. border from Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, Texas, to “a breaking point,” with more than 2,000 people per day ...
Russia’s Lavrov doesn’t reject UN bid to revive Black Sea deal, but says unrealistic
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday portrayed the United States and Europe as “looking down” on the rest of the world amid a battle to win over developing ...
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli forces’ incursion in West Bank (Update 1)
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a fighter from the Islamist group Hamas, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, emergency workers ...
Our View: Another pointless exercise in empty rhetoric
After a week of wall-to-wall Cyprob contacts on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, President Nikos Christodoulides is coming home with another pocket full of wishes ...
OpenAI unveils Dall-E 3, latest version of its text-to-image tool
OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Dall-E 3, the latest version of its text-to-image tool that uses its wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to help fill in prompts.
Dall-E 3 will be available to ...
Cisco beefs up cybersecurity play with $28 bln Splunk deal
Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) has agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Splunk (SPLK.O) for about $28 billion in its biggest-ever deal to beef up its software business and capitalize on the ...
UK’s softening labour market ‘must weaken’ consumer demand, Next boss says
A softening employment market in Britain “must weaken” consumer demand in 2024/25, the boss of clothing retailer Next (NXT.L), said on Thursday.
“I’m not going to try and predict ...
President fails to deliver in New York
President Christodoulides will return from New York empty-handed, despite the expectations he raised about a breakthrough on the Cyprus issue, because of his refusal to put his positive agenda into ...
Next week at Uni cultural festival
The Nicosia festival continues with more cultural productions this September and October. Coming up on Monday is a performance by The Contemporary Piano Trio. Musicians Miranda Papaneokleus, Nikos Pittas and ...
Man City beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 despite Rodri red card
Manchester City maintained their perfect start to the Premier League season with a 2-0 home win over Nottingham Forest on Saturday, making it six wins out of six despite losing ...
Bicommunal group runs for peace
Around 200 runners, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, took part in an 8km run in Nicosia’s old town on Saturday for International Peace Day 2023.
Funded by the European Union, the ...
Ukrainian heavy artillery inflicts ‘hell’ on Russian lines near Bakhmut
The use of heavy weapons supplied by the West in the fierce battle raging on the outskirts of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russia in May, is inflicting a significant ...
Pope Francis moved as Reuters photographer shows him child migrant picture
Pope Francis was moved as he was shown a picture of a migrant child by Reuters photographer Yara Nardi during his flight to a Church conference on Mediterranean issues in ...