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Parliament on Friday voted in favour of amending the constitution on family law, broadening its scope on the cases the courts could hear. With 49 votes in favour and one abstinence, ...

There is an urgent need to find new and efficient ways to attract young referees to football, as well as supporting the existing ones, especially in lower categories of the ...

Inflation in Cyprus rose to 8.7 per cent in November 2022, according to a report released on Friday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index rose by 0.54 points ...

Larnaca district court fined two football fans on Friday and banned them from stadium participation, after they were found guilty of violence at a football event which took place on ...

Restoration works have begun on the ancient port of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot news sources announced on Friday. According to the news sources water supply, sewage, electricity and telephone infrastructure will ...

Chemical use to deal with rodents has been reduced by half since 2020, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday, saying that they are promoting more ecologically friendly ways to deal ...

Parliament on Friday rejected President Nicos Anastasiades motion to recall a bill putting a freeze on foreclosures until January 2023. The presidential veto was rejected with by 37 MPs, while 15 MPs voted ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is “open to negotiations” on Ukraine but the West must accept Moscow’s demands, the Kremlin said on Friday, a day after U.S. President Joe ...

Parliament on Friday voted to introduce mandatory sex education in schools, in a session that House President Annita Demetriou said will go down in history for the low level the ...

MPs approved the government’s second supplementary €345m budget on Friday with 49 votes in favour and one abstention. The key points of the additional budget are €150m to be spent ...

One of the suspects in the murder of Turkish Cypriot inmate, Tansu Cidan, has entered the witness protection programme in order to testify against the main suspect, reports said on ...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party secured a resounding victory in a vote for a parliament seat in northwest England on Friday, showing the scale of the challenge facing Prime Minister ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday addressed the House plenum during his presentation of the government’s economic policy for the coming year, saying that the current administration is submitting ...

Where do you live? Nicosia, alone for now as I am single 😊 What did you have for breakfast? Usually, my breakfast does not contain carbohydrates, I try to avoid them. ...

The supreme court unanimously approved the attorney-general’s appeal over the 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier ...

The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to “weaken Ukraine ...

Winegrowers in Paphos blocked central Neophytos Nicolaides Avenue in Paphos on Friday morning in protest to the government compensation scheme which they deemed incomplete and unsatisfactory. Prior to the protest, ...

Watching the seven episodes of The Watcher, the Netflix thriller series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan – the same minds behind the platform’s hugely successful show about Jeffrey ...

Elton John will headline Glastonbury next summer in the last British show on his lengthy global farewell tour at the renowned music festival on Worthy Farm. One of the biggest ...

Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that will penalise sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, officials ...

Wargaming Group Limited on Friday announced that on November 30 2022, it reached an agreement to sell a holding of 13.41 per cent (55,337,721 shares) in Hellenic Bank Public Company Limited (“Hellenic Bank”) to ...

Cyprus will reap €4.4 billion from the ‘Cyprus Tomorrow’ plan, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday during the first event over the country’s Recovery and Resilience plan. As part of ...

Unions on Friday accused state health services organisation (Okypy) of delaying talks to reach collective agreements with staff working at state hospitals. In a statement from all the labour unions: ...

Dec 1 (Reuters) – 2022 has been a rough year for the crypto industry. The price of bitcoin has dropped 65 per cent since the start of the year, the cryptocurrency Luna suffered a ...