Archive March 2025

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they sup-ported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians ...

Gender equality is a “fundamental and non-negotiable human right”, Justice Minister Marios Hartiotis said in his message to mark International Women’s Day on Saturday. He said the day “reminds ...

Two men, aged 28 and 25, were arrested in the north for masquerading as doctors, Turkish Cypriot police said on Saturday. The police said the pair had between Tuesday and Friday been ...

At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region overnight, ...

The SESAM Identity 2.0 Expo Day this weekend is the accumulation of a 10-day architecture residency event that is wrapping up on Sunday. The Nicosia event is taking place from 2pm ...

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria’s new Islamist rulers have killed more than 340 people, including women and children from the Alawite minority, in the country’s coastal region ...

Britain’s Heathrow Airport is weighing changes to its previous expansion blueprint in a bid to cut costs and has been evaluating options such as building a shorter third runway, ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on suspicion of having promoted terrorism on social media platforms, police said on Saturday. The man was arrested on Friday after the police ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening after being found by the anti-poaching squad in possession of a large quantity of tobacco which had been smuggled from the north. ...

Police on Saturday announced they had confiscated windscreen wipers from a group of six men who were attempting to sell them in the Limassol suburb of Ayia Phyla. The men ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the implementation of the Great Sea Interconnector on the sidelines of Thursday’s European Council summit, director of the president’s ...

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of ...

By Jordan Foster The internet is abuzz with talk of beauty and the lengths we’ll go to achieve it. From Lindsay Lohan’s recent transformation to Donatella Versace’s “...

The Turkish Cypriot side will act “in a constructive manner” at the forthcoming enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be held in the Swiss city of Geneva, Turkish Cypriot ...

For new investors looking to capitalize on the next big thing in crypto, Rexas Finance (RXS) is the one to watch. The project is currently in its final stage of ...

Saturday’s weather will be mainly clear across the island, with temperatures set to rise to a balmy 24 degrees Celsius inland and on the south and east coasts, 22 degrees Celsius ...

Grandmothers, food, old black and white pictures on the wall, stories of a difficult past and a busy kitchen. In Cyprus, these things go hand in hand. If you come ...

On 23 February, the Cyprus Open Chess Championship ended in Nicosia. It was attended by 90 players, 52 of whom were juniors. Chess is becoming more and more popular in Cyprus and its ...

Eurobank Cyprus on Friday announced that it posted a net profit after tax of €214 million in 2024, marking a €14.6 million increase from the previous year, corresponding to a rise of 7.3 per ...

Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) met with President Donald Trump’s government last week and urged them to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, ...

Japanese electronics giant Sony and drinks maker Suntory are stockpiling inventory in the United States while their peers shift production or supply chains in efforts to fend off an evolving ...

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has urged firms managing private assets to improve how they identify and disclose potential conflicts of interest in valuation processes, as retail investors increase their ...

The findings of an investigation carried out into the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005 will be submitted next week. The case’s two investigators, lawyer Thanasis Athanasiou and retired ...

There is an unwritten law in Cyprus by which banks and semi-governmental organisations cannot make staff redundant. They can only offer a voluntary exit scheme by which it is up ...