Archive December 2024

The Ierokipia municipality on Sunday announced it is taking legal action against the Paphos district government and the consortium which operates the Paphos water treatment plant, near the village of ...

The most thrilling music from renowned, award-winning films is coming to theatres all over Cyprus soon, brought to life by the famous Ukrainian symphony orchestra, the Lords of The Sound. ...

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by shooting from the ground in Russia, and he said ...

Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion (€13.4bn) regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country. The ...

Croats are voting to elect a new president on Sunday in a race that incumbent President Zoran Milanovic is leading in the polls. Around 3.8 million Croats are eligible to cast ...

Paphos on Saturday night hosted a Christmas classic car parade, with cars making their way from the town hall square around the local streets. The municipality said the parade “filled ...

Last month, we threw away more than 18 gigawatt hours of solar power – enough to power the average Cypriot household for nearly 2,000 years. This process, referred to as ‘curtailment’, is where ...

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday, the first time he ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said some of his fiercest critics “have never accepted the Cypriot people’s verdict in the 2023 presidential elections”. Speaking to newspaper Phileleftheros, he said his ...

I wrote a number of stories in 2024 that meant a lot to me (the one about the growing use of antidepressants was an eye-opener). In the end, though, the one ...

By Mark Bendeich Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the ...

Renovation work at the village square in the Kyrenia district village of Bellapais will be completed by the end of January, Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul said on Sunday. ...

Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of 62-year-old Vitaly Shostak in his apartment in Limassol are continuing on Sunday, the police said. Shostak died after being stabbed once in ...

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political crisis after the government froze European Union application talks in ...

A 38-year-old man is in a critical condition after being involved in a road traffic collision on the motorway between Limassol and Nicosia in the early hours of Sunday morning. ...

A woman was attacked by a dog in the Kyrenia district village of Thermia, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Sunday. The woman, aged 52, was walking along a street in ...

I would like to praise garbage man George Rotos for the job he is doing (‘People are queueing up to do this job’ Cyprus Mail, December 21 by Theo Panayides) and ...

More snow is expected in Cyprus’ most elevated regions on Sunday, with the rest of the island set to see clouds, rain, and the odd isolated storm. Temperatures will rise ...

It’s been a brutal year to be in the battery metals business. Prices of lithium, nickel and cobalt collapsed in 2023 and have continued grinding steadily lower over the course ...

As the old year gives way to the new and a new American president is about to come to power with a mandate to make America great again (MAGA) it ...

Demetris Skourides spoke with Souzana Psara about his transformative first year as Chief Scientist. He detailed significant strides in research and innovation, Cyprus’ growing role on the global stage, and ...

BEING in holiday mode in the last week, vegetating in front of the box, binge-watching TV series and munching only things with excessive amounts of sugar or salt, after big, ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou went to Greece on Friday to discuss the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project with his Greek counterpart Theodoros Skylakakis. He told the Cyprus News Agency the ...