Archive 2024

According to Google maps, the Ledra Palace hotel in the buffer zone in Nicosia is a nine-minute drive from the Greek Cypriot leader’s workplace, and an eight-minute walk from ...

Ukraine attacked Moscow on Sunday with at least 34 drones, the biggest drone strike on the Russian capital since the start of the war in 2022, forcing flights to be diverted from ...

The fire services on Sunday rescued a hunter who had injured himself after falling in a ravine. According to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis, a team was sent to rescue ...

A photo, taken in the Turkish Cypriot enclave of northern Nicosia in the late 1960s, shows 15-year-old Suleyman posing with his rifle and his best friend, the two lads having ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will participate in the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Azerbaijan.  According to a written statement by ...

Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, “Zosia” was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead. Entombed in an ...

The met office on Sunday upped its weather warning for Sunday from the initial yellow to orange over storms. In place from 8am to 6pm, the region is expected to ...

Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election fair and square. His opponent, Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris, graciously conceded defeat by first congratulating him privately and then conceding defeat publicly ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting November 4: Cyprus and Egypt are set to deepen maritime collaboration through a joint commission established during Deputy Shipping ...

I OFTEN ask myself whether I have developed a Prezniktwo obsession, given the amount of space I give to the guy in our establishment every week. After many hours of ...

By Maria Demertzis The private sector can cover at least half of the investment gap identified in Mario Draghi’s competitiveness report but will only do so if the EU’...

The election of Donald Trump caused a certain degree of unease in Nicosia, especially after the government’s unrelenting talking up of President Nikos Christodoulides’ ‘official’ meeting with the outgoing ...

Donald Trump has won the presidential election in Arizona, Edison Research projected on Saturday, completing a sweep of all seven battleground states and locking in a decisive Electoral College victory ...

By Euripides Evriviades From the moment Donald Trump triumphantly secured his election as the 47th president of the United States, much has been said and written about him, including unending ...

Physical Intelligence, a startup that is developing foundational software for robots, has announced that it has raised $400 million in early-stage funding from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, venture capital firms ...

South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers ...

Shooting up across the island, solar farms are raking it in, boasting profit margins that would make John D Rockefeller go green with envy. The public has noticed, and so ...

Harmonie Symbiotique is the title of a new exhibition opening on Nicosia’s art scene next week. Running at the Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos from November 18 to December 18, this ...

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr scored a hat-trick to help the LaLiga champions snap a two-game winless run in all competitions with a commanding 4-0 victory over Osasuna on Saturday. ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Saturday praised the signing of a maintenance, repair and overhaul offload agreement between GE Aerospace and the United Aerospace Maintenance Company (UAMCO) of Cyprus. He ...

Qatar will stop trying to mediate a Gaza ceasefire deal until Hamas and Israel show a “sincere willingness” to return to the negotiating table, an official briefed on the matter ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday ruled out the possibility of a resumption of talks to solve the Cyprus problem and reiterated his position for a two-state solution. Speaking ...

The United States charged an Iranian man on Friday in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Department ...

By Charles Z. Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tammara Soma For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the ...