Increased demand from needy families but food donations down
Hundreds of needy Cypriot families are receiving support from volunteers or local communities to put food on their table this Easter but demand is up while donations are down at ...
Our View: Nothing transparent about election campaign expenses
All the presidential candidates met the deadline for the submission of the accounts of their election campaigns to the elections registrar. The exercise is supposedly meant to serve transparency, but ...
Pizza firm DP Eurasia delivers profit rise, evaluating Russian business
DP Eurasia (DPEU.L), which runs the Domino’s Pizza brand in Turkey and Russia, said on Wednesday it was weighing options for its Russian business after reporting a rise ...
Turkey’s cenbank urges banks to avoid creating forex demand, bankers say
Turkey’s central bank has been urging banks in recent weeks to avoid steps that could create demand for foreign currency as May elections loom, and to instead focus on ...
Biden administration to ask Supreme Court to stop abortion pill curbs
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene to stop restrictions set by a federal judge on the abortion ...
FBI arrests 21-year-old National Guardsman for online intelligence leaks (Update 3)
The FBI on Thursday arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard, over the leaks online of classified documents that embarrassed Washington with allies ...
French unions rally supporters to the streets ahead of pension ruling
Union activists barged into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH on Thursday, saying the French government should shelve plans to make people work longer for their pension and ...
Shops to close by 6pm on Friday and Saturday, ministry says
General stores will operate on Good Friday and Easter Saturday, but must close by 6pm, the labour ministry said on Thursday ahead of the Orthodox Easter weekend.
On Easter Sunday ...
Candidates must name their political donors, audit chief says
Candidates for political office must name their donors, otherwise they have broken the law, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has said.
He made the comments on Twitter, a day after President Nikos ...
President refers law on handling of TC properties
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday referred back to parliament a law it passed in late March regarding the handling of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south, deeming the legislation unconstitutional.
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Dalai Lama ‘unfairly labelled’ over tongue video – Tibet govt-in-exile
The head of Tibet’s government-in-exile on Thursday defended the Dalai Lama over footage of him asking a boy to suck his tongue, saying the incident had demonstrated the country’...
Australia braces for strongest cyclone in a decade
Australia‘s northwest region, home to the world’s largest iron ore export hub, braced on Thursday for the area’s most powerful tropical cyclone in a decade, as a ...
Urgent palace meeting after US, UK sanctions on Russia target Cypriot ‘fixers’ (Update 3)
President Nikos Christodoulides hastily convened a meeting at the palace on Thursday evening to discuss US and UK sanctions that have led to a punishing blow to Cypriot individuals and ...
Minister explores options for expediting gas extraction
Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday floated the idea of importing natural gas quantities from reservoirs in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, to be used for power generation, coupled with exports ...
Photography exhibition offers insight into Israeli culture
The Embassy of Israel in Cyprus, in collaboration with BPRarts Cultural Management, presents the photographic exhibition ‘Diversity: A State of mind’ by renowned Israeli photographers Natan Dvir and Gabi Ben ...
US appeals court preserves limited access to abortion pill
The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the United States for now but with significant restrictions, including a requirement for in-person doctor visits to obtain the drug, a federal ...
Premier League to withdraw gambling sponsorships from shirts
Premier League clubs have collectively agreed to stop featuring gambling sponsorships on the front of football kits from the 2026-27 season, the English top-flight league said on Thursday.
Eight of ...
Injured man says was beaten by landlord and accomplices
A 56-year-old foreign national reported to the police that he had to be hospitalised after being beaten by his landlord and two others who entered the house while he was ...
‘It feels great,’ Biden says as Irish tour moves to Dublin
U.S. President Joe Biden, a proud Irish-American, took his three-day tour of Ireland to Dublin on Thursday where he met the country’s president and prime minister ahead of ...
Ukraine’s GDP fell 29.1 per cent in 2022 during Russia’s invasion
Ukraine’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 29.1 per cent in 2022 as Russia’s full-scale invasion battered the economy, the state statistics service said late on Wednesday.
The final 2022 GDP ...
‘Supply and demand’ determines prices, minister says
Meat prices are up 25 per cent compared with the Easter holiday period last year but Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Thursday he cannot interfere with the laws of the ...
Courtois hopes Real Madrid won’t regret not killing off Chelsea
Comfortable as it may have been for Real Madrid in their 2-0 win over Chelsea in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said his team ...
Ukraine war, already with 354,000 casualties, likely to last past 2023
As many as 354,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Ukraine war which is grinding towards a protracted conflict that may last well beyond 2023, according to ...
Easter eggs: their evolution from chicken to chocolate
By Serin Quinn
A lot of Easter traditions – including lamb on Sunday – stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern ...