Our View: Unenforceable law to curb profiteering plainly absurd
Many were baffled, to put it mildly, by the government’s decision on Wednesday to approve a bill giving the commerce minister the power to set a maximum gross profit ...
Unit coordinating investigating corruption holds first meeting
A newly established unit coordinating the investigation of corruption cases convened for the first time on Thursday, with attorney-general Giorgos Savvides stressing that the department and its work are distinct ...
Biden spurs record emergency oil release in ‘moment of peril’ for world
President Joe Biden on Thursday launched the largest release ever from the US emergency oil reserve and challenged oil companies to drill more in an attempt to bring down gasoline ...
House passes law to create deputy ministry of culture
Parliament on Thursday passed legislation establishing a junior ministry of culture under the umbrella of the education ministry.
The voting went 34 for, 13 against – with the MPs of main opposition Akel ...
S. Korean court upholds tattooing ban
The Constitutional Court in Seoul upheld a ban on tattooing on Thursday, confirming South Korea as the only developed country that permits no one but medical professionals to perform the ...
Europe’s Russian gas in jeopardy, Ukraine braces for new assaults (Update 3)
President Vladimir Putin threatened on Thursday to halt contracts supplying Europe with a third of its gas unless they are paid in Russian currency, his strongest economic riposte so far ...
Airborne unit of forestry department will stop flying sorties from May 1
Forestry department staff of the airborne unit will not fly firefighting sorties from next month in protest at the government’s ongoing indifference to their longstanding demands.
In a press ...
Coronavirus: Two deaths, 4,349 people test positive (Updated)
Authorities on Thursday announced two more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing tracked 4,349 new positives.
The latest fatalities were two men, aged 85 and 62.
That takes the death toll since March 2020 ...
Suspect in major drugs case found dead in cell, foul play ruled out
A suspect in a major drug haul case was on Thursday found dead in his cell in Limassol, with the police all but ruling out foul play.
The man, a 61...
Tree-planting in area lacking green spaces
The Initiative for Green will be planting trees this Sunday in Kokkinotrimithia and everyone is welcome.
The tree-planting will take place at 11am, next to the Neo Plaza commercial and ...
Cyprus growth to slow sharply, IMF says
Economic growth in Cyprus will slow sharply before recovering, due to the shock associated with the war in Ukraine, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said, adding that the key ...
Premier League to reintroduce five substitutes rule next season
Premier League clubs voted in favour of reintroducing the use of five substitutes per game from the start of the 2022-23 season at a shareholder meeting, the organisation said on ...
Minister outlines support measures for low-income pensioners
The government recognises that low-income pensioners are a vulnerable group whose purchasing power is being eroded by inflation, deputy minister for welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on Thursday as she outlined ...
Animal welfare awards spotlights work of individuals and organisations
Carlos, a member of emergency response unit Emak’s K-9 unit, stole the show at Thursday’s award ceremony of the newly launched animal welfare awards aiming honour the work ...
Kremlin ‘concerned’ about US ‘complete misunderstanding’ of Putin
Suggestions by US officials that President Vladimir Putin’s advisers are afraid to tell him awkward truths about Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine show how little they understand him ...
NGO says bird trapping on the rise
The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) said that last autumn a total of 140 active bird trapping sites were detected in the districts of Famagusta and Larnaca and in the British ...
Salsa, blues, jazz and more
That is what is next in line at Sarah’s Jazz Club, music evenings with local artists playing sweet jazz, electric blues and lively Cuban salsa. Continuing its weekly lives, ...
FIFA boss steps sharply back from contested biennial World Cup plan
Gianni Infantino has stepped sharply back from hotly contested plans for a biennial World Cup, telling world soccer’s leadership that FIFA had never proposed such an idea.
The FIFA ...
Sri Lanka to turn off street lights in deepening economic crisis
Sri Lanka is turning off street lights to save electricity, a minister said on Thursday, as its worst economic crisis in decades brought more power cuts and halted trading on ...
Turkish prosecutor requests transfer of Khashoggi trial to Saudi Arabia
A Turkish prosecutor called on Thursday for the trial in Istanbul of Saudi suspects over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be halted and transferred to Saudi authorities, a ...
Gender X to appear on US passport applications – State Dept
Americans will be allowed to choose an X for gender on their passport applications beginning on April 11, the US State Department said on Thursday as the Biden administration marked a “...
Restaurant review: Jemms American steak bar, Larnaca
From its humble beginnings in a small corner shop in town to a new, more modern premises on the busy Makarios avenue, Larnaca’s Jemms American steak bar has been ...
UK sanctions Russian media organisations, targeting disinformation
Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik and some of their senior figures, saying it was targetting those ...
Erdogan says Turkey ready in principle to act as Ukraine’s guarantor
Turkey is ready, in principle, to act as a guarantor country for Ukraine, but the details of such a format need to be worked out, President Tayyip Erdogan was cited ...