Archive 2023

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the end of the pandemic, the accumulated demand, and increased savings, partly as a result of the significant government support packages, led to ...

Pope Francis on Sunday urged politicians to address the “open wound” of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, saying he had been praying for the 41 people who died in a shipwreck ...

England captain Harry Kane left boyhood club Tottenham Hotspur after 19 years to join European powerhouse Bayern Munich in search of titles, the Bundesliga’s record signing said on Sunday. The 30...

The man behind the Jho Low parody account on X/Twitter that has hit the news this week said on Sunday that the police had not contacted him over recent ...

Filming screenings continue in the centre of town, with a village also included in the programme says ELENI PHILIPPOU Thanks to an initiative by the Larnaca Cinema Society, every Wednesday ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres intends to make moves to solve the Cyprus problem before the end of his mandate, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Sunday. In an interview ...

Kylian Mbappe was reinstated into Paris St Germain’s first team on Sunday, a day after being omittedfor the Ligue 1 season opener against Lorient and reportedly being frozen out of ...

Speculation over the reasons for resignation of Turkish Cypriot leader’s representative The Turkish Cypriot leader’s special representative Ergun Olgun recently unexpectedly resigned, sparking speculation that he was no ...

Russian forces shelled two villages in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Sunday, killing seven civilians including a baby, Ukrainian authorities said. A couple, their 23-day-old child and another ...

Police were on Sunday continuing to investigate after a phone call on Saturday night warned of a bomb onboard a plane travelling from Cyprus to Abu Dhabi. Officials at Larnaca ...

Cyprus tourist arrivals have increased by 32 per cent this year, deputy minister for tourism Costas Koumis said on Sunday, expressing the hope that visitors will continue to flow to the ...

Russian air defences shot down at least three Ukrainian drones over western regions of Russia on Sunday, the defence ministy said. Two drones were shot down over Belgorod region and ...

A memorial service for 16 victims of the Helios air crash in 2005 was held in Paralimni on Sunday. The plane crashed killing all 121 on board on August 14, 2005 in the mountainous Grammatikos ...

By Mike Blake and Marco Garcia The death toll from the Maui wildfires in Hawaii reached 93 on Saturday, according to the Maui County website, making it the deadliest U.S. ...

After the issuing of an orange weather warning delivery services will not be working on Sunday between the hours of noon and 4pm. This follows a decree issued to this ...

For over five years now vehicle crime is still ongoing in Paphos. The Paphos police and Paphos mayor have all been made aware of this ongoing situation. Highly organised crime ...

By Andrew Hayley and Ethan Wang The death toll from a mudslide in China’s northwestern city of Xian has risen to 21, with six people still missing, the city’s ...

Explosions were heard in the vicinity of the Syrian capital Damascus early on Sunday, state media said, adding that the cause was not known. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ...

Cyprus returns to heatwave conditions on Sunday with the meteorology department issuing an orange weather warning. The department warned of extremely high temperatures, adding that inland the temperature will reach 43...

Hoteliers in the Famaguta area are projecting a very good August for tourism, president of the region’s hoteliers association Panayiotis Constantinou said on Sunday. With occupancy levels of between 85 ...

If it is unique music experiences you are looking for, then these upcoming performances are ones to note down. Commencing in September, a series of music nights will take listeners ...

By Lori Ewing Australia goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold surely won a legion of fans with her steely-eyed heroics in Saturday’s quarter-final penalty shootout victory at the Women’s World Cup. ...

The swift intervention of two police officers to save a two-year-old boy in Ayia Napa proved to be a lifesaver, the force announced on Sunday. At 9.30 on Saturday night while ...

Amid international supply-chain disruptions, the EU is stepping up efforts to ensure the European food system benefits family farmers, Europe’s regions and its consumers. By Alex Whiting When Paolo ...