Archive 2024

A “record-breaking” turtle weighing 90 kilograms was rescued by a team in Cyprus and taken to the Tashkent nature park in Vouno to undergo treatment, the park’s director Kemal Basat ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Sunday she “cannot be so optimistic or talk about optimism” with regard to the Cyprus problem. She was addressing student union Pofen’s annual ...

Curfews, sporadic gun violence in the streets, media censorship, chaos and confusion: these were the conditions under which journalists had to operate in the immediate aftermath of the coup of ...

A dead body was found on Silver beach in Engomi Ammochostou, near Famagusta, on Sunday. The Turkish Cypriot police said the body was found near the rocks on the beach, ...

The installation of air conditioning units in schools is to begin within the next few days, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Sunday. Speaking at student union Pofen’s annual ...

Nicosia has welcomed a new exhibition that captures life in Cyprus from antiquity to today. Split into five acts, the Cyprus Insula History – Memory – Reality exhibition at the Bank of ...

A 54-year-old man who stands accused of running a pyramid scheme had his remand extended for a further five days on Saturday. Police believe the man had a “leading role” ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The world economy is currently performing better than expected. The recession, which many analysts had predicted as an inevitable result of the pandemic and ...

People love to jump off cliffs. In Cape Greco, where rocky shores and fascinating caves tower above blue waters, this temptation is great – often too great to resist. “The excitement ...

The foreign ministry on Sunday said it was largely pleased with the latest annual reports on Cyprus submitted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Guterres had at the beginning of ...

by Oya Kocak Barcin and Christoforos Dimitriou We, Oya and Christoforos know each other through our work. We live on opposite sides of the divide in Cyprus, have different backgrounds ...

I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...

Cypriot member of the European parliament and social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou opened a poll on X, the social media platform better known as Twitter, asking his followers whether or ...

Phew, what a heatwave we have had during the last couple of months! This is when you really have to look after your plants. The time for planting trees and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that neither the Greek Cypriots nor the Turkish Cypriots “loved” the Republic of Cyprus when it was first established in 1960. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, ...

A 23-year-old man was found with four open wounds at the Ayia Napa medieval monastery in the early hours of Sunday morning. He was transferred to the Famagusta general hospital ...

Cyprus banks are failing in giving decent interest rates on customer deposits and in providing sufficient credit at reasonable interest rates to businesses and households to support balanced economic growth ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday he was “horrified” by the attempted murder of former US President Donald Trump. In a post on X, the social media platform better known ...

Sunday’s weather is expected to be mainly hot and sunny, tempered by the possible occasional rain shower or storm in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to a scorching 39 degrees ...

Various world leaders on Saturday condemned the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania in which the former president was shot in the right ear, while one rally attendee ...

Russian traders have finalised a share exchange for investors in Yandex, often dubbed Russia’s Google, one of the final steps needed to complete a more than $5 billion deal that ...

Slick-looking Spain go up against belatedly blossoming England in a mouth-watering conclusion to the European Championship on Sunday as the final promises a fitting finish to a month of absorbing ...

The Wimbledon men’s singles final between defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and second seed Novak Djokovic takes place at the All England Club on Sunday. The mixed doubles finals will ...

Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...