In 2021 Cyprus was one of the countries with the largest percentage of children under three years old (45% compared to 21% in the EU) whose parents assigned at least one hour per week of care to professional child-minders, grandparents, other household members (excluding parents), other relatives, friends or neighbors, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU....
Japanese airline All Nippon Airways will not honor the deeply discounted first and business-class tickets mistakenly sold in a currency glitch last week, the airline announced Tuesday....
The European Commission has proposed a new single market for medicines in the European Union (EU) to create an attractive and innovation-friendly environment for the research, development, and production of medicines....
Thessaloniki’s longest-running festival exclusively devoted to comics, cosplay, and animation, The Comic Con, is set to take place on May 5-7 at TIF-Helexpo’s Ioannis Vellidis conference center....
Today (Wednesday, April 26), the Parliament's Institutions Committee began discussing the law proposal submitted by DISY MP and chairman of the Committee, Demetris Demetriou, on behalf of his party's Parliamentary Group, ...
The Aliens and Immigration Service of the Cyprus Police proceeded on Tuesday to the repatriation of 31 third-country nationals that were staying in Cyprus, it was announced on Wednesday. In total 2,615 third-country nationals were repatriated so far this year....
MEP Eva Kaili, who has been indicted over her involvement in the “Qatargate” corruption scandal, has denied claims made in a Politico report that she is also facing another criminal investigation into fraudulent payments involving four former assistants in the European Parliament from 2014 to 2020...
Cyprus’ first couple felt right at home on Tuesday when the president and the first lady, both career diplomats by trade, hosted a reception for members of diplomatic and consular missions on the island...
The Cyprus Electricity Authority will stand trial as a corporation in the fatal accident at a utility substation in 2021, but prosecutors won’t be seeking any prison sentence as there are no individual defendants in the case...
A South Korean startup has developed an AI-based app that scans your dog’s nose print and places it into a crowdsourced database that anyone can access to identify the owner of a lost dog....
The air travel industry has recently been facing delays in aircraft deliveries, a problem that is not allowing it to fully recover from the pandemic....
President Joe Biden has formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024. He is asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and to set aside concerns about his age....
The owners of the Principote beach club in Panormos on the island of Mykonos started work on Monday to remove some of the illegal constructions for which they have been fined 22.2 million euros....
An extensive meeting on the issue of US and UK sanctions on natural and legal persons in Cyprus, chaired by Nicos Christodoulides, has concluded at the Presidential Palace....
The Republic of Cyprus activated its ESTIA Special National Plan to receive and repatriate foreign citizens from crisis areas through its territory, according to a press release from the Foreign Ministry....
"The cable cars in Bellapais and Saint Hilarion, which are in the final stages of planning, are among the most significant projects in the development of alternative tourism," said "Minister of Tourism, Environment and Culture" and President of the "TRNC" DK, Fikri Ataoglu....
More than 80 Cypriot antiquities will be repatriated to Cyprus from the US. To this end, a ceremony has taken place in Washington in the presence of the Director of the Department of Antiquities, Dr. Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou....
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Cyprus President, Nikos Christodoulides, will preside over a new meeting at 1030 local time on Tuesday, on the issue of sanctions imposed by the US and the UK on individuals and legal entities in Cyprus 'in connection with the Russian Federation’s unlawful and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, including facilitators of sanctions evasion'...
In the wake of allegations that she was involved in the so-called Qatargate kickback scandal, Greek MEP Eva Kaili is also being investigated for misappropriating European Parliament funds, Politico has reported...
The first Cypriot citizen has been evacuated from Sudan and has arrived on a flight to Aqaba, Jordan, according to Foreign Affairs Minister, Constantinos Kombos....
Another odd exchange about Cyprus with references to age and sexism ended up crashing an international conference on Russia and Ukraine on Monday in Prague, where Cypriot House Speaker Annita Demetriou took exception to her Turkish counterpart’s response after he took issue with her Turkish-Russian invasion analogy...
