Archive January 2025

The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) received a financial contribution of €40,000 from Greece on 30 December 2024. This donation brings Greece’s financial assistance to the CMP to a total ...

Three Israelis were killed on Monday and several injured in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the town of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel’s ...

Britain was bracing for more snow, rain and flooding on Monday as severe weather disrupted road and rail travel and forced airports in northern England to temporarily close their runways, ...

Russia said on Monday its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where ...

A fire broke out on Sunday night in the bedroom of a two-storey house in Chlorakas. According to a post by fire service spokesperson Andreas Kettis on X, the Paphos ...

A 31-year-old man has been arrested by police following the discovery of drugs and a substantial amount of cash in his possession. According to police, members of the drug squad ...

The exercise of the right by a debtor to choose and determine for which debt he makes a payment binds the creditor who accepts it and they must allocate it ...

One of the first interactive experiences and workshops held at the AG Leventis Gallery in 2025 is a participatory event with psychologist and psychotherapist Panayiotis Proestos. On January 18, adults are invited ...

“The Brutalist,” the story of a Holocaust survivor who chases the American dream, and musical thriller “Emilia Perez” took home the first major movie honors of Hollywood’s awards season ...

By Marios Clerides Cyprus has gone through a series of crises in recent years, after the government started to lose access to international money markets around 2012. This was followed by ...

A winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to a broad swath of the U.S. on Sunday, with some 60 million people across more than a dozen states from ...

By Michalis Persianis The last two years have proven that the well-known clichés about the Cypriot economy are indeed true. Our economy is resilient, robust, highly adaptable and highly ...

OpenAI recently laid out a plan to transition its for-profit arm into a Delaware public benefit corporation (PBC) to help it raise capital and stay ahead in the costly AI ...

The number of people visiting British shops last year fell by 2.2 per cent, the biggest drop since 2021, industry data has shown, adding to signs of a broader economic slowdown. The ...

Natural gas prices in Europe have been rising for most of 2024, as a result of increasing gas demand, and are still rising, especially in the aftermath of the ending of ...

Amad Diallo struck a late equaliser as Manchester United made a mockery of their recent form to hold Premier League leaders Liverpool to a thrilling 2-2 draw at Anfield on ...

By Euripides L. Evriviades The East Med is increasingly becoming a geopolitical battleground, where competing claims over maritime rights, energy resources and regional influence converge. The Republic of Cyprus (RoC) ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Syria’s new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had “neutralised” 32 members of the outlawed ...

By Riham Alkousaa Syria’s finance minister said on Sunday the government would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month after completing an administrative restructuring of ministries ...

Police are investigating a case of possession and spread of material showing the sexual abuse of a minor after the arrest of a 42-year-old man. Police said the investigation started ...

A record number of people visited the Christmas villages set up around the island to promote Cyprus tourism, the deputy tourism minister said on Sunday. Minister Costas Koumis told the ...

The bicommunal technical committee on economic and commercial matters is examining ways to withdraw damaged euro notes that have accumulated in the north through the Central Bank, Greek Cypriot co-chairman ...

Like most people over the years, I’m constantly bombarded with exhortations to consider healthy food options, try alternative forms of exercise and find time to be mindful. I can ...

By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year’s Day ...