UK PM Rishi Sunak rules out holding an election in early May
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that he would not hold a general election in early May, in the strongest indication yet that the national vote would take ...
Oldest Greek Cypriot diaspora group sends resolution to UK PM
At its recent annual general meeting the Greek Cypriot Brotherhood approved a resolution to the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the Cyprus issue, it announced on Tuesday.
The resolution ...
Will Britons work until they’re 71?
By Chris Parry
The retirement age will need to rise to 71 for UK workers in future, according to a recent report looking at the effect of increasing life expectancy and ...
UK economy falls into recession, adding to Sunak’s election challenge
Britain’s economy fell into a recession in the second half of 2023, a tough backdrop for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has promised to boost growth ahead of an election ...
Joint defence programme with UK and Cyprus
A strategic leadership programme is to be held at the ministry of defence in collaboration with the UK, it was announced on Tuesday.
The UK High Commission in Cyprus, the ...
Our View: No legal way for Cyprus to decide on use of bases
The so-called Cyprus Peace Council staged a demonstration outside Akrotiri base on Sunday to protest against its use by the UK government for flying military supplies to Israel and helping ...
British citizens overseas to get right to vote
British citizens living outside their country, among whom over 40,000 are believed to live in Cyprus, are to be handed the vote in their country’s elections, following an announcement by ...
Cyprus ‘not involved’ as UK uses Akrotiri base to bomb Yemen (Video, Update 2)
The United Kingdom is on Friday using its Akrotiri base on the island to conduct bombing raids in Yemen, forcing the government to clarify that Cyprus was not involved in ...
UK’s Cameron worried Israel may have breached international law in Gaza
Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron said on Tuesday he was worried that Israel might have breached international law in Gaza, and that the advice he had received so far ...
Venezuela’s Maduro slams deployment of British warship to Guyana
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday said the deployment of a British warship to waters off the coast of Guyana breaches the “spirit” of an agreement reached between Venezuelan and ...
Cyprus and UK establish ‘strategic cooperation’
The foreign ministries of Cyprus and the United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding, “establishing a strategic cooperation” between the two countries.
The memorandum, signed on Thursday, covers a ...
British diplomat Peter Wilson meets Tatar at official residence
British diplomat Peter Wilson, the Director General for Europe at the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office, met Ersin Tatar at the latter’s official residence on Wednesday evening.
In a ...
UK’s Sunak wins parliament vote on Rwanda migrant plan despite rebellion
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda avoided defeat in parliament on Tuesday, surviving a rebellion by dozens of ...
Greece PM laments lack of progress with UK on Parthenon Sculptures
Talks over a possible return of the British Museum’s Parthenon Sculptures to Athens are not advancing quickly enough, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday as he prepared ...
The law is above the UK’s immature government
And why would East African Asian refugees support dumping other refugees in a part of the world they themselves were forced to leave?
A lot can happen in British politics ...
Cyprus cat covid strain thought to have reached UK
A fatal strain of cat Covid which has killed thousands of animals on the island has reached the UK, reports said on Sunday.
According to the Daily Mail, scientists said ...
Health minister in London to sign hepatology deals
Health Minister Popi Kanari will depart for London on Tuesday, to sign important agreements with hospitals there.
During her stay in London, Kanari is scheduled to visit King’s College ...
Hands off the Refugee Convention
In a speech in the US last week, UK interior minister Suella Braverman floated the idea that the definition of refugee under 1951 Refugee Convention needed to be tightened to stop ...
UK’s fossil fuel car ban delay may only stall investment
Britain’s decision to delay a ban on new fossil fuel car sales may make little difference to the pace of a shift to electric vehicles (EVs), even though the ...
UK man, accused of spying for China in parliament, says he’s innocent
A man British media have reported was arrested on suspicion of spying for China while working as a parliamentary researcher said via his lawyers on Monday he was “completely innocent” ...
UK to declare Russia’s Wagner a terrorist organisation
The Russian mercenary Wagner Group is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organization by the British government, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
A draft order due to laid ...
UK minister apologises for swearing about crumbling school closures
Britain’s education minister Gillian Keegan apologised for an expletive-ridden outburst on Monday after complaining she wasn’t being thanked enough for doing a “fucking good job” in dealing with ...
UK PM Sunak breached parliament’s code of conduct inadvertently – watchdog
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not properly declare his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stood to benefit from new government policy but the failure was inadvertent, ...
UK house prices fall for 4th month but market shows resilience
British house prices fell in July for a fourth month and the slide looks set to extend into 2024, but the market showed some signs of resilience despite a rise in ...