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The finance ministry on Monday sought to shoot down proposals brought by legislators to extend the repayment period for tax arrears, warning that doing so would set a bad precedent. ...

In its first concerts musical project Synergia, an ensemble of acclaimed musicians, will present the soulful masterpieces of Vivaldi. The Synergia – Spring with Vivaldi concerts in Nicosia and Limassol aim ...

A total of 109 companies based in Cyprus are among those sanctioned by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, including gambling company Parimatch. “This is an egregious mistake. We hope it will be ...

Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it would axe another 9,000 roles to make its operation lean and manage economic uncertainty, marking a new round of job cuts that pile onto ...

A car was completely destroyed in an arson attack in Aradippou, Larnaca, police said on Monday. According to the Larnaca police spokesman Charis Hadjiyiasemi, at around 3am on Monday a ...

The head of the bar association on Monday declined to comment on reports that they have discovered prima facie evidence of wrongdoing by the former law firm of ex-president Nicos ...

Lewis Hamilton, winner of a record 103 Formula One grands prix and seven world championships, said on Sunday he had never seen a car as quick as Max Verstappen’s Red ...

Cyprus on Monday notified the European Commission of a voucher scheme aimed at increasing the provision of broadband services through the existing infrastructure, ensuring wide availability of high-speed broadband services. ...

Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is engaged to former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith, his spokesperson confirmed on Monday, which will mark the fifth marriage for the 92-year-old ...

President Nicos Christodoulides on Monday assigned to a former supreme court judge the task of preparing a proposal on the operation of an advisory council which will recommend names for ...

Vladimir Putin and his “dear friend” Chinese leader Xi Jinping planned more talks on Tuesday after a Kremlin dinner where the isolated Russian president curried favour with his most powerful ...

Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah was nearly four when she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany with her parents in 1943. She would spend the next two years of ...

European supervisors tried to stop a rout in the market for convertible bank bonds on Monday, saying owners of this type of debt would only suffer losses after shareholders have ...

Antonio Conte lambasted his Tottenham Hotspur players as ‘selfish’ after they squandered a 3-1 lead at Southampton to draw 3-3 and drop crucial points in their bid to hang on ...

Oil prices fell on Monday to their lowest in 15 months on concerns risks in the global banking sector may cause a recession that would lead fuel demand to decline and ...

Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Monday that it had opened a criminal case against the International Criminal Court prosecutor and judges who on Friday issued an arrest warrant for ...

Former government spokesman Marios Pelekanos has announced his candidacy for the position of vice-president of Disy. His candidacy follows the ones by Disy’s MPs, Fotini Tsiridou and Savia Orphanidou ...

ALIX NORMAN speaks to the four members of The Hallouminati, whose hearts belong to the island but they largely have to content themselves with running a Facebook page dedicated to ...

On April 5, NAMMOS Limassol at Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Limassol will open its doors to welcome this summer season. For the second consecutive year, Limassol’s renowned ...

UBS Group (UBSG.S) emerged as Switzerland’s one and only global bank with a state-backed rescue of its smaller peer Credit Suisse, a risky bet that makes the Swiss ...

True to its commitment to green growth and respect for the environment, Epic, in collaboration with the Department of Forests and the Cyprus Forest Association, recently participated in the planting ...

Detective noirs are making a comeback says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES It’s a rainy night. Smooth jazz fills the air as the protagonist narrates in a gruff, almost gravelly voice to ...

Members of the Kurdish cultural organisation “Theophilos” staged a demonstration in the front of the justice ministry on Monday to protest the ongoing trial of Kurdish politician Kenan Ayaz. Ayaz, ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen drills simulating a nuclear counterattack against the U.S. and South Korea in a warning to the allies who are scaling up ...