Archive 2024

Increased cloud cover and strong winds will be observed on Monday in the western half of the island, with clouds later spreading to other regions. Temperatures will rise to 31C ...

By Simone Tagliapietra A report on the future of European competitiveness, prepared by former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi and long awaited in Brussels, is finally out. It is expected ...

“Shogun,” a sweeping, historical epic set in imperial Japan, claimed the prestigious best drama trophy at Sunday’s Emmy Awards, and “Hacks” upset defending comedy champion “The Bear” at television’...

Employment in the public sector in Cyprus saw a 3.3 per cent increase in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. According to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), ...

UBS Asset Management has been selling corporate bonds in its global portfolios during market rallies, a senior fund manager said, citing concerns that a slowing economy or the looming US ...

Adobe will unveil a new generative AI-powered video creation and editing tool in a limited release later this year, the software maker has said, as it looks to beef up ...

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways plans to make its stock market debut no sooner than 2025, two people familiar with the matter said, in potentially the first IPO of a major ...

Good news on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) front, but priority must now shift to implementing measures that will bring electricity prices down between now and 2030, when the GSI is ...

Visa (V.N) plans to increase the number of businesses accepting digital payments in Pakistan tenfold over the next three years, the payments giant’s general manager for Pakistan, North ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in ...

A Russian-guided bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building on Sunday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, triggering a fire and injuring at least 41 people, the region’s governor said. President ...

Clashes between Ael fans and police ahead of a highly anticipated but ‘high risk’ game with Apollon prompted authorities to call off the match. The decision was met with only ...

It is already evident that tables this year have not be laden with the green and burgundy varieties of sweet grapes we have been used to in Cyprus – another inconvenience ...

I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the response Serdar Atai got to his recent article, The Bitter Truth, published on September 1 in the Cyprus Mail. Admittedly, there were ...

The foreign ministry on Sunday expressed its condolences and sadness over the deaths in Vietnam as a result of typhoon Yagi. In a post on its account on the platform ...

A 35-year-old man was arrested in Limassol for attacking a police office and injuring another man in a parking lot on Sunday. Police said another man, aged 37 reported that at ...

Cyprus ‘had no other choice’ but to bring in US experts to help with corruption-related investigations, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, as he announced a designated budget would go ...

On the day all schools were back in operation this week – Monday – I rode on Nicosia’s Park and Ride bus service one year after it launched operations between the ...

Gabriel’s second-half header earned Arsenal a crucial 1-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur in a feisty north London derby on Sunday to keep pace with early Premier League leaders Manchester ...

The queue on the Limassol-Nicosia highway stretched on endlessly on Sunday, after an accident with a semitruck. Police urged the public to use the exit at Governor’s beach until ...

Dear Sirs,I’m a Belgian expat who worked in Cyprus between 2003 and 2008. At the time I was an enthusiastic reader of your paper (and Cyprus Weekly which sadly doesn’...

Oscar Piastri won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and sent McLaren top of the constructors’ standings in a race that finished with a virtual safety car after a penultimate lap collision ...

The government continues its efforts to determine the fate of people that went missing due to the Turkish invasion 50 years ago, head of humanitarian affairs for missing persons and the ...

Three new traffic cameras will be rolled out in Limassol starting Monday, at the Spyrou Kyprianou and Ayias Fylaxeos traffic lights. According to a police announcement on Sunday, the aim ...