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181. Cyprus ready for five-party meeting, Anastasiades tells Lute

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades shared a phone call on Wednesday with UN special envoy Jane Holl Lute, expressing his readiness to take part in an informal five-party conference with the aim of reaching an agreement on the terms of reference that would allow the resumption of peace talks....

182. Thousands of Greek cards to be replaced in travel website data breach

Greece’s four systemic banks have canceled or are planning to cancel and replace up to 15,000 credit and debit cards, after the payment card data used by some of their customers on a Greek online tourist services portal was hacked....

183. Speaker Bercow, champion of Britain's parliament in clash with Johnson, bows out

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow, champion of Britain’s parliament in its move to rein in Prime Minister Boris Johnson over Brexit, said on Monday he would stand down, issuing a warning to the government not to “degrade” parliament. ...

184. Greek PM: We choose peace and reconciliation, without giving up sovereign rights

History, which is recorded in books and in memories, is alive and present and reminds us of our obligation to defend justice and not be complacent, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday from the Cyprus Republic, where he is wrapping up a two-day official visit. ...

185. AHDR hosts conference on peace education

The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) hosts this week in Cyprus the 43rd Conference of the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) entitled "Educating for a Culture of Peace in Divided Societies, History, Dialogue and Multiperspectivity Toward Reconciliation". The official kick off of the conference took place on Monday morning at the Home for Cooperation at the UN buffer zone in Nicosia. ...

186. Digital Agenda Summit: Brian McBride, ASOS Chairman and CEO of Amazon UK

Brian McBride is one of Britain’s foremost digital business leaders. For six years he served as Chairman of ASOS, the leading online fashion retailer. He is also Senior Non-Executive Director at electrical retailer AO.com and is Senior Adviser with Scottish Equity Partners. Outside his commercial interests he’s also a member of the Government’s Digital Advisory Board, which steers the digital delivery of Government services to the public. ...

187. Andreas Ekström and Nikolaos Mavridis to speak at Digital Agenda 19 Summit

188. Female duo allegedly robbed community fund

Two women have been arrested in Limassol after €120,000 went missing at a local community over the course of five years...

189. Limassol woman arrested for cooking the books

A woman in Limassol has been arrested on embezzlement charges in connection with document fraud and money theft from a company...

190. Aristotle shows us the path Jeffrey Sachs says at Hubert Curien lecture in Nicosia

191. Brexit vote: May asks MPs to take a second look

192. Britain to shake up Big Four accountants

193. New University of Cyprus Library opening ceremony on 5th of December

194. Cops say Limassol hookers were high-end pros

Two women who were arrested in a suspected sex trafficking bust in Limassol have turned out to be high-end prostitutes, with cops filing charges against them including running an illegal brothel...

195. UCY students form human chain of knowledge

The Main Library at the University of Cyprus is relocating to the newly-built Learning Resource Center, and students are forming a human chain to take the final batch of books to their new home...

196. Cabinet meets to address teacher crisis

The Cabinet is holding an emergency session Tuesday at noon to discuss the teacher crisis, with a whole host of problems in the backdrop including a slowdown by the unions...

197. Bank of Cyprus gets rid of small business bad loans

The Bank of Cyprus says it has sold a portfolio of non-performing loans worth €2.8 billion to Apollo Global Management, a transaction that will reduce its stock of NPLs to €5.2 billion...

198. Pulitzer-winning author Philip Roth dies at 85

Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85...

199. 'Bonfire of the Vanities' author Tom Wolfe dead at 88

Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of “new journalism” who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” “The Right Stuff,” and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” has died at the age of 88...

200. Female skier is first Cypriot to reach North Pole

Cypriot Stephanie Solomonides is among 11 women who went on a weeklong journey to the North Pole, and she has a message for Cypriots and the entire world...

201. Economic Sentiment Indicator decreased by 1.6 points in March

The decline resulted from a worsening of business confidence in services, industry, and among consumers...

202. World pays tribute to a brilliant mind

“His theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we and the world are exploring"...

203. Physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

The power of his intellect contrasted cruelly with the weakness of his body...

204. Edmond About’s ageless Greece

How can a nation with so many skills and virtues be so incapable of creating an effective state...