New walking tour explores Nicosia’s heritage
How many tales and how much heritage can a city hold? A new walking tour organised by the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and the Home for Cooperation explores ...
Drunk driver to face court on Monday
A 35-year-old will face Nicosia district court on Monday for speeding while under the influence of alcohol early on Saturday morning.
Police stopped the man as he was doing 119 km ...
Putting Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook to the test
Jamie Oliver is an absolute machine. The celebrity chef – no longer ‘naked’, but very much clothed and still campaigning for us all to cook (stress-free) from scratch at home – is ...
ECB governors expect friction with governments as end of support looms
The European Central Bank must think about the exit from monetary and fiscal support deployed during the coronavirus pandemic even if that displeases governments, three of its policymakers said on ...
Coronavirus: Eight businesses fined total of more than €16,000 for violations
Eight businesses were fined a total of €16,750 in the past 24 hours for failing to abide by coronavirus measures, police said on Saturday.
Two businesses in Nicosia were fined €4,000 each, one ...
Elderly composer uses skills old and new
A pensioner based in Limassol has put technology through its paces to produce his first CD. Alix Norman meets him
In May, David Pentecost turned 81. It’s an age when ...
China’s Xi vows ‘reunification’ with Taiwan, but holds off threatening force
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to realise peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan, though did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed ...
Future of local tech industry discussed at Cyprus IT Forum
The future of the Cyprus technology industry was one of the primary subjects of discussion at the Cyprus IT Forum taking place in Limassol on Friday, with a number of ...
Budget to allocate more than €3 billion for staff expenditures
The state budget for 2022 was handed over to parliament on Thursday, with the drastic reduction of the deficit being the key takeaway.
More details about the budget have emerged since ...
Cyprus Business Now
Industrial Turnover showed a significant increase of more than 10 per cent in July 2021, but also in the first seven months of the year, a development that is mainly due to ...
Three-year action plan approved to tackle child sexual abuse
The council of ministers has approved a three-year plan to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse and harassment as parents called for measures following complaints against teachers that emerged earlier ...
Our View: Time to take a stand against CoLA
One of the policy objectives over the next four years, approved by the 29th congress of the Sek trade unions federation, which was completed on Thursday, was the “full restoration ...
Cyprus beaten 3-0 by Croatia in World Cup qualifying
Croatia stayed on course to qualify automatically for the 2022 World Cup after goals from Ivan Perisic, Josko Gvardiol and Marko Livaja helped the 2018 runners-up to a 3-0 win in Cyprus ...
Facebook apologizes for second outage in a week, services back up (Updated)
Facebook Inc apologized to users for a two hour disruption to its services on Friday and blamed another faulty configuration change for its second global outage this week.
The company ...
Turkish vessel to carry out seismic survey in East Med
Turkey announced Friday it planned to carry out seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean until December 16, 2021.
According to a navigational warning, Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis, accompanied by Ataman and ...
Landmark global corporate tax deal finally wins agreement
By Leigh Thomas
A milestone global deal to ensure big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15% and make it harder to avoid taxation has been agreed after Ireland, Estonia ...
Two Indian drugmakers to end trials of generic Merck pill
Two Indian drugmakers have requested permission to end late-stage trials of their generic versions of Merck & Co’s oral antiviral drug molnupiravir for moderate COVID-19, raising questions about how ...
Education minister’s no-show at House angers MPs
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou’s unexpected absence on Friday from a meeting with the House education committee drew strong reactions from MPs, who were expecting to discuss the exams scheduled ...
Coronavirus: no new deaths, 144 people test positive on Friday (updated)
No deaths from Covid were reported on Friday, as 144 new infections were detected in the past 24 hours from 55, 413 tests, positivity rate of 0.26 per cent.
The health ministry said 20 people out ...
On_Bodies: upcoming dance & performance arts festival
After a successful 13-year cycle and with several fruitful collaborations with accomplished Cyprus-based and international artists under its belt the NO_BODY festival has transformed into the On_Bodies Festival ...
Green party suspends conference after ex member lawsuit
The Green party was forced to postpone its electoral conference on Friday after a court issued an injunction suspending the expulsion of one of its members.
The party said the ...
Cyprus first stop on Queen’s Commonwealth Baton Relay
THE Queen’s Baton Relay began its epic journey across the globe as it departed Birmingham Airport on Friday and heads to Cyprus – the first stop on the 140,000-kilometre relay.
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Police investigating infant death (updated)
Police said Friday they were investigating the death of one-month-old baby who died at Makarios children’s hospital.
Police said the boy had been transferred to Makarios from Limassol general ...
Berlin police investigating ‘Havana syndrome’ cases at US embassy
German police are investigating several cases of the mysterious “Havana syndrome”, believed to have affected around 200 U.S. officials and family members worldwide, at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.
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