Archive 2023

Cyprus’ foreign ministry advised Cypriot nationals on Sunday to avoid all travel to Lebanon. In an advisory issued on Sunday, the ministry said it is closely monitoring the situation in ...

Israel has a responsibility to protect the lives of innocent people in Gaza, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday amid a growing outcry over Palestinian civilian ...

A 61-year-old man was remanded in court on Sunday for five days over the attempted murder of a 36-year-old. Paphos district court issued the remand order after police said at 2...

The future of Cyprus’ gas beset by war, COP28 and tough negotiations with Chevron In our region the Israel-Hamas war overshadows most other issues. Right now, it is characterised by ...

Nicosia district court on Sunday remanded two people for five days over an attack against police officers in the capital’s old town. Officers were alerted of a fracas at ...

The government of Cyprus will increase its financial contribution to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) and offer allowances for carers to relatives of those who died or are missing ...

Actor Matthew Perry, beloved star of the top-rated 1990s U.S. television sitcom “Friends” as the wise-cracking Chandler Bing, died on Saturday after apparently drowning in a hot tub. He ...

I’ve nothing more to add to your editorial ‘It’s time Akel ditched Marxism to the dustbin of history’ (Cyprus Mail, October 26). You said it all! I voted for ...

Israel is expanding ground operations in Gaza and its fighter jets have struck hundreds more Hamas targets, the Israeli military said on Sunday, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ...

“If we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas’ strengthening has been (Prime Minister) ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu,” said Yuval Diskin, head of Israel’s ...

The United Nations’ Lebanon peacekeeping force UNIFIL said on Sunday that one of its members was injured after shells hit the mission’s base near the village of Houla on ...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Tarek Amara When Tunisian President Kais Saied this month rejected €60 million ($63 million) in EU aid, the bloc got a taste of the risks and challenges it ...

Cyprus has reached out to the EU for help including requesting items such as tents, after 194 migrants arrived to the island’s shores, it emerged on Sunday. The interior ministry ...

Why all this one-sided fuss over the Hamas attack. They were only copying what the Jewish terrorist groups Irgun and Lehi did at Deir Yassin and elsewhere before and after ...

Israel’s military has told international news organisations Reuters and Agence France Presse that it cannot guarantee the safety of their journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, under Israeli bombardment ...

The new UN envoy to Cyprus should be seen as the last chance to solve the Cyprus problem, as the island’s division is becoming more entrenched with time, UN ...

Gazans struggled to find their loved ones and heard news of family members killed as communications gradually returned to the enclave on Sunday after a near total blackout as Israel’...

Owner of iconic bakery Hurricane in the old city since 1942 says it’s time to retire If tradition had a taste, to some it would be a cheese pie – specifically, ...

A 54-year-old woman was arrested after she was reported to have scammed a lady for almost €20,000 by claiming she was the Nicosia general hospital chief, police said on Sunday. Nicosia ...

Israeli forces waged ground operations against Hamas in Gaza on Sunday in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the second phase of a three-week-old war aimed at crushing the ...

The proposed Government budgets for 2024 to 2026 presented to the House of Representatives in early October 2023 are once again self-serving in that the short-term financial and political interests of the decision-making ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday took a jab at his intelligence chiefs on the X platform, saying they never warned him Hamas was planning its wide-scale attack on ...

By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk US President Joe Biden and his team have markedly shifted their tone on the Israel-Hamas crisis in recent days, moving from unfettered ...

A 68-year-old man suspected of possessing and distributing child pornography was arrested in Famagusta, police said on Sunday. Members of the cybercrime unit received information that a user on a ...