Britain is a nation of gamblers
Napoleon Bonaparte famously called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Britain seemed more like a nation of gamblers after the betting scandal last week.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gambled on ...
Cyprus increasingly going to UK for litigation
Cypriot litigants moved up to seventh place among the nationalities most frequently using London courts for commercial disputes in the 12 months to April 2024, it emerged on Wednesday.
Specifically, 33 cases involving ...
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Both Labour and Tories lack ‘the vision thing’
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walked a few steps to a lectern outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street in London last Wednesday to announce that he was calling an ...
Temporary jetty in place off Gaza, Cyprus ‘proud’ of Amalthea
The temporary jetty constructed by the United States forces to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza has been moved into place, the US Central Command announced on Thursday ...
President to discuss Cyprus investment prospects in the UK
President Nikos Christodoulides will on Monday travel to London for a series of contacts with financial parties, entrepreneurs and investors.
As part of his visit, the president will participate in ...
Attack on Diane Abbott was definitely racist
British politics was dominated by racism and anti-semitism last week around the person and politics of Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British parliament in 1987 ...
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 ...