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High concentrations of dust continue to be present in the air on Wednesday, the labour inspection department said, warning people to avoid circulating in outdoor spaces. “The small size of ...

Cybercriminals have been developing and boosting their attacks at an alarming pace By Chrysanthos Christophorou The rapid expansion and use of the internet, the digitalisation of almost every available piece ...

Police on Wednesday said they helped rescue a pensioner who got lost and slightly injured in Paphos forest during his drive in the area. According to Paphos assistant police director ...

In today’s episode, traffic cameras appear to be stuck in the ‘pilot’ phase with 50,000 violations recorded since the start of the year but only 2,000 fines handed out. In other ...

Greek workers began a day-long nationwide strike on Wednesday over what they call a “deepening crisis” of rising prices and squeezed incomes, disrupting transport, ferries, schools and public hospitals. The ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris departed for Bulgaria and Slovenia on Wednesday morning, where he will pay an official visit at the invitation of his counterparts to discuss the migration issue. ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested late on Tuesday after a woman complained he used a piece of wood to hit her dog in the yard of her house in Paphos, ...

Residents in the major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai, with 26 million under lockdown, scrambled to secure food on Wednesday, with supermarkets shut and deliveries restricted amid another citywide Covid-19 testing ...

Did Elon Musk break securities laws again? Former securities officials and professors said Musk may have missed a key disclosure deadline when he bought 9 per cent of Twitter. And Securities ...

The NFT bubble isn’t popping, but it may have sprung a leak. A year on from when a single non-fungible token sold for $69.3 million in crypto at Christie’s ...

PwC Cyprus Director of Technology Advisory Services Minos Georgakis on Tuesday said the pandemic accelerated companies’ digital acceleration, forcing organisations to adapt to the new normal. Georgakis differentiated between the ...

European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) president Philippos Philis on Tuesday said that the shipping industry cannot choose to ignore global decarbonisation efforts, despite the complex nature of the undertaking. Philis, ...

The traffic camera saga continues: They’re up, they’re working, but they appear to be stuck in the ‘pilot’ phase – with 50,000 violations recorded since the start of the year ...

Reports that the Cyprus government had been asked to give its Russian-made weapon systems to Ukraine has put the government in a quandary. Although Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides ruled this ...

Liverpool took a firm grip of their Champions League tie with Benfica as goals from Ibrahima Konate, Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz earned them a 3-1 victory in Lisbon in ...

The EastMed pipeline remains a project of common interest despite being gas-based, making it ineligible for EU funding, the European Parliament voted on Tuesday during its plenary session. During the ...

The government will lobby European Union nations to get them to reduce armaments sales to Turkey, and has asked parliament to assist in that effort. The issue was discussed at ...

The transport ministry plans to lower inner city speed limits to 20 and 30 kilometres per hour in a bid to promote other forms of transport, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on ...

The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Israel on Tuesday reiterated their commitment to a ‘strategic alliance’ of the three nations, pledging to expand cooperation in an otherwise turbulent region. ...

The health ministry announced three deaths from and 2,987 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. The new deaths were of two women aged 71 and 87, and a man aged 96, bringing the total ...

All police officers should undergo training on how to handle homophobic and transphobic offences, ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides has suggested. In a report to the police chief, Lottides also suggested ...

Greece will offer a second COVID-19 booster dose for people aged 60 and above, at least four months after the previous shot, Greek health officials said on Tuesday. “The relative platform ...

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that “accountability must be inevitable” for Russia as he accused invading Russian troops of committing “the most terrible ...

The European Union’s executive proposed sweeping new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, including a ban on coal imports, as the West responds to evidence of civilian killings in a ...