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In today’s episode, we take a look at the upcoming discussion on euthanasia in Cyprus. Moreover, 17 potential victims of human trafficking were identified in the island following a Europol ...

Political, entertaining, evocative, experimental, collaborative: Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival 2021 will present a full schedule of performances and events inspired by the theme of Displacement with things kicking off this ...

Holders of a Cypriot passport can travel to 176 destinations without a visa, according to the latest Henley Passport Index where the document ranked 15th out of 198 passports, dropping two spots ...

Paphos CID in collaboration with the antiquities department on Wednesday were investigating the possibility of criminal liability by the managers of a construction company following its failure to report the ...

Police on Wednesday said they have suspended the operation of a Paphos-based bar which did not have the necessary licences and failed to abide by coronavirus measures. According to the ...

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is in the process of working through another mountain of documents showing how the rich and powerful use the global financial system to ...

Two businesses and 18 individuals were booked in the last 24 hours for violating coronavirus measures, police said on Wednesday. The fines came after 3,371 nationwide checks carried out between 6am on Tuesday ...

The finance ministry is trying to secure an extension of the period in which banks can provide businesses and the self-employed with state-guaranteed loans, as it expires at the end ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return his focus to tackling regional inequality on Wednesday, hoping a final speech at his Conservative Party’s conference will draw a line under ...

Limassol-based GP General Procurement Compan Limited (GenPro), a maritime and commercial procurement company, held its first annual Blue Day Sustainability Seminar in September. The seminar focused on the company’s ...

Lending criteria to both businesses and households remained unchanged in the second quarter of 2021, but it is expected that they will become stricter in the third quarter of the year, ...

Mining giant De Beers has commissioned a survey of the ocean floor off Greenland’s coast in a first step to determine whether it could hold deposits of highly-prized marine ...

The catastrophic failure that is the EU’s agricultural policy, CAP Farmers should receive state support because they are vital to a vital sector and it can be very hard – ...

The government sprung a big surprise on Monday when it presented its bill for state-guaranteed bank loans to the House finance committee. There are less than three months for the ...

Seventeen potential victims of human trafficking were identified in Cyprus following a Europol-supported investigation into labour exploitation in the agricultural sector in seven countries. In an announcement on Tuesday, the ...

U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that ...

A Nicosia-based law firm is apparently one of the offshore service providers from where the Pandora Papers’ records derive, it has emerged. Under the heading ‘Who are the firms at ...

By Niklas Pollard, Ludwig Burger and Simon Johnson Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work that ...

The government has approved a budget for restorations at the Rizokarpaso school buildings while a futsal court is to be constructed for the enclaved Greek Cypriot pupils, Presidential Commissioner Photis ...

By Sheila Dang Routine maintenance on Facebook’s network stitching together its data centers caused Monday’s collapse of its global system for more than six hours, the company said ...

Cyprus will collaborate with the UK to promote LGBTI+ rights and modernise the relevant national legislation, Law commissioner Louiza Christodoulidou-Zannetou said on Tuesday. In a tweet following her meeting with ...

By Sergiy Karazy and Lewis Macdonald Under cobblestone streets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, diggers have uncovered new hiding spots in underground sewers where some Jews managed to ...

French labour unions marched for better pay and social benefits, as prices for energy and food rise and the government resumes a reform programme interrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. Thousands ...

One death and 146 new Covid-19 cases were announced on Tuesday by the health ministry out of 53,610 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.27 per cent. The death concerns a 75...