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Betting activity in 2022 went up by 22 per cent compared to the previous year, coming to €959 million, the head of the National Betting Authority told MPs on Monday. Ioanna Fiakkou was ...

The ‘TRNC’ flag was on display at the 146th Inter-parliamentary Union summit in Bahrain, alongside the flags of other countries, images that surfaced on the internet showed on Monday. A ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping could wade deeper than before into Ukraine diplomacy as soon as next week, staging both his first trip to Russia and his first talks with Ukraine’...

Hellas Direct was recently recognised as one of Europe’s 1,000 fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times, the fourth time it has received this distinction. The innovative insurance tech company is ...

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman formally announced on Sunday the creation of a new national airline, Riyadh Air, with industry veteran Tony Douglas as its chief executive, ...

Newly elected Disy leader Annita Demetriou walked into the party offices to a round of applause and a bouquet of flowers on Monday as she took over the helm of ...

The non-profit association TechIsland announced today the launch of the TechIsland Awards, a new annual award program designed to recognize and celebrate the outstanding contributions of individuals, companies, and projects ...

Menswear dazzles on awards season red carpets By Marie-Louise Gumuchian From classic tuxedos to shiny jumpsuits, menswear has dazzled on the red carpets this awards season, sometimes even attracting the ...

A construction company in the Famagusta area was fined thousands of euros on Monday over a failure to apply work safety measures, the labour inspection department said. The company, Andreas ...

Communications agency Partners VMLY&R is once again changing the game, this time having harnessed cutting-edge technology to commemorate Women’s Day. Women are an amazing force of nature ...

New polls show the Turkish opposition’s presidential candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leading against President Tayyip Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points ahead of elections on May 14 seen by many as ...

A senior Russian lawmaker on Monday introduced a bill to push back the age of conscription to compulsory military service to 21-30 years from the current 18-27 years. The bill ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis announced on Monday that their governments will institutionalise a coordination body, as a new chapter in Athens and Nicosia relations. “This ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out changing a law which prohibits the British Museum handing the Parthenon marbles permanently back to Greece. Sunak said there are no plans to ...

State regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank SBNY.O on Sunday, the third largest failure in U.S. banking history, two days after authorities shuttered Silicon Valley Bank SIVB.O ...

An afternoon dedicated to fashion is coming up at Ermou Square on Saturday as the Larnaca Historical Centre Fashion Day takes place. Organised by Blurred magazine in collaboration with the ...

AI image generation is changing the way we make art. ALIX NORMAN speaks to an expert image creator, who is turning his imaginings of Cyprus into tangible images If the ...

The death toll in Turkey from last month’s major earthquakes has risen to 48,448, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday, as authorities rush to set up container cities to ...

Pope Francis marks 10 years as head of the Roman Catholic Church on Monday celebrating Mass with cardinals in the chapel of the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel where he has ...

Secondary teacher union Oelmek and the secondary parents’ association on Monday repeated their request for twice-yearly examinations to be scrapped, in a letter addressed to the Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, ...

Investors scrambled to pull down global rate expectations on Monday and abandoned wagers on steep US hikes next week, reckoning the biggest American bank failure since the financial crisis will ...

The glitz, the glamour, the bloopers. There is more to Oscar night than the films says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Despite a drop in ratings in recent years, the Oscars has always ...

Evaluation of the cryptocurrency market is a crucial thing that must be done to make money out of it. Making money will only be possible with a clear understanding and ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday spoke of the need to promote and implement an EU action plan aimed at keeping the migratory flow to Cyprus under control. On the ...