Archive 2024

Police on Tuesday said a 21-year-old man was arrested for setting fire to a police vehicle on Easter Saturday in Ypsonas. The Limassol man is suspected of rioting, arson of ...

By Barry Bruce Cyprus v Malta always provides an exciting game of rugby and Saturday’s match at the Tsirio Stadium in Limassol, was no different in their Rugby Europe ...

Manchester United’s woes this season were laid bare again in their 4-0 Premier League hammering by Crystal Palace on Monday, but manager Erik Ten Hag believes he is the ...

Three additional suspects were remanded for eight days on Tuesday after being arrested in connection with a Lakatamia attempted gangland murder committed last month. The court’s decision brings the ...

Critically acclaimed and multi award nominated artist Bonnie Tyler is set to perform in Cyprus in a one-night only show. Rising to fame with her contemporary approach to the sounds ...

The personal envoy of the UN Secretary General, Maria Angela Holguin will arrive on Tuesday evening in Cyprus, where she will stay until May 14. This will be her third mission ...

Tuesday will be mainly clear with increased clouds and a chance of isolated rains in the afternoon, mainly in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 27C in the interior, 25C ...

British services companies reported the strongest upswing in activity in almost a year during April, despite a new surge in cost pressures, according to a survey that pointed to a ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while ...

Global petrol demand growth could halve in 2024, squeezing second-half refinery margins, analysts said, driven by a shift to electric cars in China and the United States and a return to ...

Columbia University canceled its main graduation ceremony after weeks of pro-Palestinian protests roiled the Ivy League college’s campus, but it will still hold smaller, school-based events. “Holding a large ...

France’s car industry will aim to ramp up electric car sales fourfold by 2027 under a strategy agreement to be signed with the government on Monday, just as the president ...

Britain’s financial watchdog will be asked next week to respond to growing political and industry criticism over its “naming and shaming” proposals, according to the parliament’s treasury committee. ...

The Ukrainian Embassy in Nicosia on Monday expressed its “deep disappointment” over permission given for Russian events to be held across Cyprus to commemorate Russia’s Victory Day this week. ...

In his second article, looking at the Cyprus problem from the viewpoint of a career diplomat, Andreas Pirishis, challenges the popular claim that foreign governments were always working against the ...

Road safety was on the top of the north’s ‘parliament’s’ agenda on Monday as it convened for the first time since the death of Greek Cypriot Photis Photiou ...

Two children were arrested on Monday in connection with an arson attack on a house in the Larnaca village of Kiti on Saturday night. The pair, aged 14 and 16 years old ...

Israel’s military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday, residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday there may be “no Turkish Cypriots left” in some areas of the north in five or ten years’ time ...

Shots were fired at a parked car in Zakaki on Monday, police said. The shots were fired shortly after 3pm, with police currently believing they were fired from a small ...

The depletion of equity through a dysfunctional banking system leads to a separation of ownership from entrepreneurship and by the relentless pursuit of the wealthy of a return without the ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Tuesday, accused of having stolen copper coils from a water tank on the roof of his own father’s house. The ...

More than 1,200 people have signed up to participate in the government’s “e-Kofini” channel on the communication app Viber, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Monday. The Viber channel was ...

Sefa Karahasan, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT’s Cyprus correspondent, was arrested in the north in relation to the ongoing “fake diploma scandal” and appeared in court on Tuesday. Karahasan’...