Archive 2025

By Flora Alexandrou As scholars remind us, national identity is not a fixed concept, nor does it have a single agreed interpretation. It shifts with time, place and circumstance, and ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will leave for Tirana, Albania on Sunday, following an invitation from his counterpart Igli Hasani. He will discuss Cyprus-Albania bilateral relations, the Cyprus problem and the ...

Cyprus’ GDP is growing rapidly and banks are making big profits, but is the welfare of most people benefiting from such developments? The answer is a definite no as the ...

The government recognises its moral obligation to stand by the relatives of those killed in the Helios air crash, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He said that no matter ...

An earthquake with a 4 reading on the Richter scale was recorded on Sunday morning with an epicentre 23km north east of Limassol, the European Seismology Centre said. According to the ...

By Michael Holden Prince Harry returns to Britain this week amid speculation that he might visit his father, King Charles, for the first time in about 20 months in tentative steps ...

By Renee Hickman and Heather Schlitz Several thousand demonstrators marched past Trump Tower as the sun began to set in downtown Chicago on Saturday, protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’...

By Pavel Polityuk, Yuliia Dysa and Valentyn Ogirenko Russia’s largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and ...

Sunshine in the morning will give way to cloud in the afternoon on Sunday, especially in the mountains, foothills and some areas inland with temperatures higher than on Saturday. With ...

A routine police check on Saturday night led to the arrest of one of the passengers for drug offences, police said on Sunday. Officers of the drug squad YKAN stopped ...

If Cyprus has problems of identity so too does the UK Flags and national anthems were in the news in UK and Cyprus lately in ways that caused mild but ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting September 1: Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides recently carried out an introductory visit to the SOZO Brain Center in Cyprus, ...

THERE are still two-and-a-half years for the presidential elections but the scheming and plotting by rival blocks has already started. It was therefore no surprise to see an article by ...

Only last month former president Nicos Anastasiades made public a letter he had sent Disy leader Annita Demetriou, complaining because the party failed to publicly defend the work of his ...

Aryna Sabalenka retained her U.S. Open crown with a 6-3 7-6(3) win over American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova in the U.S. Open women’s final on Saturday, underlining ...

The Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry has announced that in 2026 it will organise national pavilions at three major international exhibitions in technology, innovation and shipping, with the aim of ...

British house prices rose 0.3 per cent in August, a third consecutive monthly increase that leaves them 2.2 per cent higher than a year earlier, figures published by mortgage lender Halifax showed ...

British retail sales rose more than expected in July, boosted by good weather and the women’s European soccer championship, but annual growth was slower than expected after extensive revisions ...

The once bustling Laiki Yitonia is now shuttered. Even the municipality has given up. A decision has been taken to transfer stewardship of Laiki Yitonia from Nicosia municipality back to ...

Three concerts are planned for the latest edition of Technopolis 20’s Classics concerts series starting on September 19 with a live performance by the Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniță and Russian pianist ...

In every crypto cycle, new projects emerge that challenge the dominance of established players. A few years ago, Uniswap and Aave transformed decentralized finance (DeFi) and rewarded early investors with ...

The race for the best cryptocurrency to invest in before 2026 is intensifying. Bitcoin (BTC) remains the flagship, and Ethereum (ETH) continues to dominate decentralized applications, but neither asset offers the ...

The Israeli military told Palestinians in Gaza City to leave for the south on Saturday before bombing a high-rise tower as its forces advance deeper into the enclave’s largest ...

British police arrested dozens more people on Saturday under anti-terrorism laws for demonstrating in support of Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group banned by the government as a terrorist organisation. Britain ...