Blinken meets China’s Wang after leading pressure efforts on Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bali on Saturday after a G20 ministerial meeting on the Indonesian island where the ...
Virtual reality market to become more competitive
All eyes will be on Apple as it launches first headset next year
The virtual reality (VR) market is set to become more competitive in the coming years, with Apple ...
Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla TSLA.O and the world’s richest person, said he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter TWTR.N because the ...
Cyprus Business Now
The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) on Friday announced the launch of a new call for proposals for the programme titled ‘Proof of Concept for Technology and Knowhow Applications’.
The ...
Is MiCA the end of the crypto wild west?
By Maria Demertzis
France’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, has compared crypto markets to the wild west. At the end of last week, in the last moments of France’...
Tesla sells record high China-made vehicles in June
Tesla (TSLA.O) in June achieved its highest monthly sales of China-made vehicles since opening its Shanghai plant in 2019, data showed on Friday, as the US carmaker ramped up output ...
Cyprus is on track despite past mistakes, says president
The newly-appointed transparency commissioner and members of the independent anti-corruption authority were on Friday urged by President Nicos Anastasiades to work with determination and demonstrate zero tolerance in the fight ...
Our View: Radical mobility plans should be put in place as soon as possible
The government has very ambitious and radical plans for managing the traffic on the roads of the capital. Two studies are currently underway for the plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility, ...
Former UK finance minister Sunak bids to replace PM Johnson
British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime ...
Tatar argues for greater EU funding for Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar argued on Friday that the north should receive up to 30 per cent of the €1bn in EU funds being made available to Cyprus.
He further ...
Djokovic hits back to beat Norrie and set up Kyrgios final
Top seed Novak Djokovic set up a blockbuster Wimbledon final against Nick Kyrgios after recovering from a torrid start to overwhelm Britain’s Cameron Norrie 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 on ...
Russia’s Lavrov walks out of G20 as West denounces Ukraine war
G20 foreign ministers called for an end to the war and grain blockade in Ukraine on Friday, as Russia’s top diplomat walked out of a meeting and denounced the ...
Phedonos slams ‘greedy and criminal landlords’ after three injured in balcony collapse (Update 3)
By Nick Theodoulou and Christodoulos Mavroudis
The near fatal injuries sustained by three Nepalese workers as their third-floor balcony collapsed has caused outrage, with Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos slamming “greedy ...
US Supreme Court ‘out of control’ on abortion ruling, Biden says
U.S. President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday ...
Live music all week long
Whether it is a mid-week or a weekend outing you are after, the live music venues of the island are keeping performances going throughout July. Adding to the summer high ...
Sri Lanka police impose curfew, fire tear gas as unrest escalates
Police in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend ...
Akamas peninsula excavation raises new questions for archaeologists
Newly discovered Neolithic artifacts in the Akamas peninsula suggest the area may have played a more important role in prehistoric Cyprus than had been previously thought.
In April 2022, lead by ...
Supreme court cuts woman’s Covid fine from €450 to €150
The supreme court has cut the penalty imposed on a woman who was ordered to pay €450 for violating the Covid mandates, with the judges ruling it be reduced to €150.
The ...
‘UK has made little effort to free men sentenced to death’
Russia’s ambassador to Britain said he was surprised London has not made more of an effort to secure the release of two British citizens sentenced to death for fighting ...
Thalia programme to boost GDP by 6 per cent, add 8,500 new jobs
President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday hailed the approval of Cyprus’ social cohesion policy programme Thalia 2021-2017, calling it a landmark moment in the country’s efforts to restructure and evolve ...
Moscow city councillor gets seven years’ jail for anti-war comment
A Moscow district councillor was jailed for seven years on Friday for criticising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in what a Kremlin-critical lawyer said was the first case of anyone ...
Interior ministry says controversial fence is necessary to tackle increase migrant flow
EU member states that are attempting to tackle illegal immigration have done so by placing barriers, increasing specialised patrols and enhanced their technological surveillance systems, the interior ministry said on ...
Fire in Armenochori under control
A fire that broke out close to Armenochori community in Limassol district at around 3pm on Friday was brought under control three hours later, authorities said.
The fire service responded, ...
Judicial reform hailed but some warn still a long way to go
Former judges and cabinet ministers on Friday hailed the amendment of the constitution to allow for what they deemed faster and high-quality justice to prevail, but noted that this should ...