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Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanoli on Wednesday met with Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides, during which they touched on matters related to the Cypriot shipping sector. The Limassol mayor congratulated ...

Danish brewer Carlsberg (CARLb.CO) denied on Wednesday a media report that said the company had agreed to sell its Russian business to Turkish rival Anadolu Efes (AEFES.IS). Russian ...

The education ministry’s proposal for an alternative to twice-yearly exams will be ready within the week after it is examined by the legal service, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said ...

Nobody expected anything from the visit of the UN Under Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, who arrived here with no agenda but just to offer a little reassurance that the UN had ...

Washington’s top general said on Wednesday the crash of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian jets was part of Moscow’s ...

Issues at Pentakomo waste treatment plant persist, the House environment committee heard on Wednesday during a discussion on the impact of municipal waste on the environment and the health of ...

A U.S. judge in Texas on Wednesday heard more than four hours of arguments over a request by anti-abortion groups to ban sales of the abortion pill mifepristone across ...

The second postmortem on the body of 28-year-old Lesya Bykova, who was found dead on Saturday near Petra tou Romiou, was completed on Wednesday, with officials saying no statements would ...

Shining the spotlight on creatives and artistic work is the focus of upcoming masterclass at Thinker Maker Space of CYENS. A packed one-day workshop with invited guest speakers from abroad ...

In a well-known voice of the British Cypriot culture PAUL LAMBIS finds a musician who also doubles as an academic Haji Mike is much better known in Cyprus as a ...

The air traffic controllers’ union in the north said on Wednesday that the north’s ‘airline’ that will start flights to Turkey next month is in fact a travel agency. ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called an urgent meeting on the issues surrounding refugee estates, which is due to take place on Thursday. The announcement comes just one day ...

Protesters marched across France on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to convince lawmakers not to back President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform bill that would raise the retirement age by ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill aiming to facilitate strategic investments, simplifying procedures and reducing bureaucracy. Strategic investments are those which amount to €20 million, of which at least 75 per cent ...

Lobbying regulations need to be passed before the Easter holidays, the House institutions committee said on Wednesday. Following a meeting with the transparency commissioner and the head of the anti-corruption ...

The world’s largest green business ideas competition returns for the tenth consecutive year in Cyprus and invites students, start-ups, entrepreneurs and researchers to submit their cleantech business idea. ClimateLaunchpad ...

Four companies licensed by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) banked with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, the two US banks which recently collapsed, according to statements ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that the parliament had sent a letter of protest to the Bahrain parliament, following images that surfaced showing the ‘TRNC’ flag at an ...

Free dental checks will be available across all districts’ general hospitals on March 20 as the health ministry seeks to raise awareness of oral hygiene. Free oral hygiene checks will also ...

A bill on rolling out body cams on police officers and their vehicles is rife with “contradictions, inconsistencies and has serious potential for being unconstitutional”, Akel MP Aristos Damianou said ...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr beat Abha 3-1 in the King’s Cup on Tuesday but it was a disappointing night for the Portuguese forward, who failed to score, received a ...

Between 60,000 and 100,000 people in Cyprus are estimated to be suffering from long Covid-19, the federation of patients’ associations (Osak) said on Wednesday as it announced the publication of manuals to ...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced on Wednesday a plan that he hopes will speed up Britain’s stagnating economy, including childcare and pension reforms to get more people into work and ...

An ancient grave with two skeletons and vases were uncovered in Limassol on Wednesday as part of the ongoing anti-flooding roadworks. The find has been attributed as belonging to the ...