Archive 2024

An underage driver with two underage passengers was stopped in Paphos, police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Sunday. A 16-year-old was reported after the vehicle he was driving was stopped ...

One person was taken to hospital with light burns on Sunday following an explosion caused by a gas leak in Larnaca. According to the fire service, the explosion occurred at ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi Trucks of flour have reached northern Gaza for distribution to areas that have had no aid in four months, Palestinian media reported on Sunday, with famine looming ...

By Sarah Marsh The large number of civilian casualties that would result from an Israeli assault on the Gaza city of Rafah would make regional peace “very difficult”, German Chancellor ...

Preparations continue for the departure of the second World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid ship to leave from Larnaca port to head for Gaza, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. Foreign ...

Lava flows from a volcano in southwest Iceland that had lit up the night sky on Saturday appeared to slow on Sunday, but authorities said they still posed a danger ...

There is clear illegality in relation to visual material from the Osiou Avakoum monastery which has been widely viewed online, data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Sunday. This, ...

Sex, money laundering and bogus miracles, the scandal at a small monastery has it all The weird goings-on at the relatively obscure monastery Osiou Avakoum that were first reported 10 days ...

By Glafkos Constantinides The Cyprus problem remains unsolved for a good 50 years. In this political ‘production function’, to use a term borrowed from economics, the only constant is change. Little ...

By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn President Vladimir Putin is poised to tighten his grip on power on Sunday in a Russian election that is certain to deliver him a ...

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides has arrived in Cairo where he will take part in a meeting of European leaders with the President of Egypt The meeting on Sunday is part ...

Environmentalists on Sunday expressed satisfaction with the latest government report into construction works in the Akamas. The supplementary report proposes a series of corrective measures to restore environmental damage caused ...

The island was in a carnival mood on Sunday with celebrations taking place in all areas, but centered in Limassol, where residents say the parade is second only to that ...

Three people have been arrested in Limassol after a fight caused damages to an apartment building in the Omonia area, police said on Sunday. Two other people are wanted in ...

By Andrew Mills and Maayan Lubell The main U.N. aid agency operating in Gaza said on Saturday that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave ...

European leaders including President Nikos Christodoulides are expected to announce a multi-billion euro funding package and an upgraded relationship with Egypt in Cairo on Sunday, part of a push to ...

Daniil Medvedev said he will need to play at a “20 out of 10” to beat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday’s Indian Wells final in the California desert. Medvedev beat ...

Ukraine launched 35 drones against broad areas of Russia, sparking a brief fire at an oil refinery, targeting Moscow and disrupting electricity in border areas, Russia said early on Sunday, the ...

I came across your item about the building work being carried out in Kyrenia harbour while doing research before booking a holiday – I live in the UK. I am shocked ...

‘North Cyprus can easily be a safe shelter for those wanted by Interpol or involved in illegal dealings’ At least 11 fugitives wanted by Interpol have been pinned down in the ...

Ten new fixed traffic cameras will start operating in Limassol on Tuesday at three positions. From the ten cameras, four will monitor for drivers passing through a red light, passing ...

British politics was dominated by racism and anti-semitism last week around the person and politics of Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British parliament in 1987 ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting March 11: REALTYon, the only event in Cyprus dedicated to the entire property industry, is returning for its second ...

WHEN the story about the entrepreneurial archimandrites, who set up the start-up monastery Osiou Avakoum in Fterikoudi, broke and there was talk of film of them having sex with each ...