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Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Thursday warned credit-acquiring companies (CACs) not to proceed with foreclosing on properties where the borrower has applied for a government-sponsored debt relief scheme. In a ...

Canada’s federal government on Thursday introduced a law that would exclude people suffering solely from mental illness from pursuing assisted death for an additional year. Legislation passed in 2021 temporarily ...

The United States imposed sanctions on 22 individuals and entities in multiple countries that it accused of being tied to a global sanctions evasion network supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex. The ...

Two men aged 55 and 37 were on Thursday remanded by the Paphos court for four days on suspicion of stealing a 70kg bronze statue worth €10,000 from a public place. A 43-year-old ...

Over the last few days authorities have seized and confiscated over 15kg of cannabis sent to Cyprus via courier services. In a statement, police said that on January 27 local law ...

A beloved Canadian groundhog, Fred la marmotte, was found dead before he could complete a North American tradition of predicting the onset of spring on Groundhog Day on Thursday. Kids ...

Majid Khan, a Pakistani man who has described in graphic detail his torture by the Central Intelligence Agency in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has ...

A number of staffers involved with the Turkish Cypriot Property Management Service may face criminal charges for acquiring property they were not entitled to, it emerged on Thursday. The development ...

He might be an acclaimed Greek singer with a decade-long career in the music industry yet Giannis Kotsiras’ next venture is a theatrical production. Staying to his performance style but ...

President Vladimir Putin evoked the spirit of the Soviet army that defeated Nazi German forces at Stalingrad 80 years ago to declare on Thursday that Russia would defeat a Ukraine supposedly ...

A total of 700 new police officers will be recruited by the police force in 2023, according to police chief Stelios Papatheodorou. Speaking to journalists after the inauguration of a new police ...

Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood has had all criminal charges against him dropped, police and prosecutors said on Thursday. Greenwood, who was suspended by United in January 2022 when accusations against ...

Another €35 million is being allocated in subsidies for people to upgrade their homes to be more energy efficient following the success of the previous round of grants which clocked up ...

European Union cities had the highest housing cost burden in 2021, according to a report published on Thursday by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical service. In Cyprus, the lowest rate ...

The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the fifth successive time on Thursday and signalled another half a percentage point increase for March, pressing ahead with policy tightening even ...

Presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades on Thursday released a list outlining 12 key priorities of his potential administration should he get elected. The list includes policy proposals and future measures on a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged EU leaders during talks in Kyiv on Thursday to slap more sanctions on Russia, as Moscow’s forces pressed their offensive in eastern Ukraine and ...

Lending rates in Cyprus rose again in December 2022, with deposit rates also moving higher amid the European Central Bank’s normalisation of key interest rates, according to a report released ...

Crafting a market niche for itself, Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) has turned into the most profitable token in the crypto world. Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) is set to amass a lot of ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios met with representatives of the World Bank on Thursday, who gave their advice on a potential tourism strategy for ...

By Yael Naze A little over six months ago, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delivered its first photographs, dazzling the world as it revealed the cosmos in glorious ...

The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to waive the immunity from prosecution of two lawmakers following a request by Belgian investigators to question them over a cash-for-influence corruption scandal. ...

A series of new family workshops and creative performances will take place this month at Nicosia’s Majestic State Gallery, bringing young ones closer to artistic expression. On Saturday afternoon, ...

Deok union blasted the government’s stance on foreign workers on Thursday accusing Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos of sidelining workers’ rights and paving the way for companies to hire third-country ...