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Police fined the owners of a business in the Larnaca district €42,000 on Thursday after officers discovered that they were employing 12 people illegally. The arrest took place after a tip off ...

A 35-year-old tourist reported that €88,400 were stolen from his hotel room in Oroklini on Thursday evening. According to Larnaca police spokesperson Haris Hadjiyiasemi, the victim of the theft is in ...

The Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) on Thursday reported a year-on-year drop in construction production during the fourth quarter of 2022, while producer prices in construction saw a significant annual increase of 11.1 ...

Israel reinforced troops near its borders with Lebanon and Gaza on Friday following a flare-up in violence that threatened to spiral out of control after police raids this week on ...

The Bank of Cyprus on Thursday announced the establishment of a Sustainable Bond Issuance Framework, with a strategic goal of supporting the nation’s shift towards a more sustainable operational ...

The collapse of crypto exchange FTX and its grant-making body, the FTX Future Fund, has left some researchers at top universities without the funds they were promised and others trying ...

Sibur, the largest producer and exporter of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Russia, redirected exports to Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the past three months, industry sources said. ...

Swiss lender Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) has won a $41 million lawsuit against a member of the Saudi royal family over a loan to refinance a super yacht, with London’s ...

The state has paid tens of millions of euros to settle claims with Turkish Cypriots seeking compensation for the use of their properties in government-controlled areas – with hundreds more cases ...

After hooligans went on a rampage outside the Tassos Papadopoulos-Eleftheria indoor stadium in Nicosia last month, setting fire to the bus company offices, politicians decided to address the matter. President ...

A motion to discuss a new freeze on home repossessions was defeated in parliament on Thursday, with the House deciding instead that a legislative proposal on the matter be tabled ...

A quarrel lasting several minutes broke out at the plenum on Thursday after House Speaker Annita Demetriou barred independent MP Andreas Themistocleous from speaking apparently out of turn. The kerfuffle ...

Germany and France are joining the EU Commission’s infringement proceedings against Hungary over its anti-LGBT law, a German government spokesperson said on Thursday. The European Commission referred Hungary to ...

President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday released a summary of after-action reports on the U.S.’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that laid blame on his predecessor Donald Trump, saying “...

Ukrainian and Russian forces battled in Bakhmut, the devastated eastern city which has become a symbol of Kyiv’s defiance, while seven civilians were reported killed by Ukrainian artillery strikes ...

More than a million people were without power on Thursday after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most-populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou Some 200 workers at three Paphos hotels called off a strike on Thursday evening, hours after their walkout, following a deal with employers over the ...

Israel blamed the Islamist group Hamas for a volley of more than 30 rockets fired from Lebanon on Thursday, following escalating tensions after Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque in ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou is set to receive the report detailing the results of the disciplinary investigation concerning former senior police officer and drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos in the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law making some 1,000 former bank employees eligible for unemployment benefit, in what some commentators earlier called a scandalous arrangement. The government bill, amending the ...

For one night only, Limassol’s Monte Caputo will transform into a cabaret, burlesque ground as it welcomes a travelling act from Italy. The Indigo group will present a unique ...

Russian prosecutors on Thursday requested a 25-year prison sentence for opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is on trial in a closed court on charges including treason, his lawyer said. The 41...

The government, church and international convicts are colluding together to commit an environmental crime at the Ammos Kambouri beach in Ayia Napa, Greens MP Alexandra Attalides charged on Thursday. Her ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou discussed ways of strengthening cooperation between Cyprus and Egypt in the fields of electricity, renewable energy, and natural gas, during a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart ...