Archive May 2025

Three British right-wing extremists were convicted on Wednesday of planning to carry out a terrorist attack at mosques or synagogues as part of a “race war”, British police said. Brogan ...

Rory McIlroy, whose Masters triumph last month completed a years-long pursuit of the career Grand Slam, said on Wednesday he has accomplished everything in golf he ever dreamed of and ...

In summer 2023, Dimitris Marinelis spent days on the frontline of Europe’s biggest wildfire in northern Greece, protecting homes and setting up anti-fire zones as flames engulfed a forest. Like ...

Bitcoin (BTC) has surged back into six-figure territory, surpassing the $100,000 mark for the first time since February. Meanwhile, XRP continues its rebound with analysts pointing to $3 as the next major ...

The battle to free nearly 10,000 “trapped buyers” in Cyprus is heating up, as banks and credit institutions voiced strong opposition to a new law proposal discussed on Wednesday in Parliament. ...

As 2025 approaches, crypto investors are no longer chasing hype — they’re chasing function. Projects built around real-world use cases are pulling ahead, and according to multiple analysts, one name standing ...

Residents in Nicosia and its western suburbs on Wednesday faced reduced access to drinking water after a serious fault was detected in a main water supply pipeline. The water development ...

Hollywood icon Robert De Niro lambasted “philistine” U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday and his proposed film tariff at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony, where he used ...

The thirteen mobile desalination units set to arrive on the island as a gift from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to be reserved solely for use in Limassol, it ...

Wednesday’s parliamentary session on controversial protest legislation abruptly ended after too few MPs turned up to begin the debate. A key discussion on a bill to replace Cyprus’ current ...

A Nicosia court ruled on Tuesday against the state-owned Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) for including unfair terms in its loan agreements with consumers, in breach of Cyprus’ consumer protection laws. ...

In a market saturated with speculation and short-term hype, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is quietly building a case for long-term value. Still in its presale phase, the project has already raised ...

The Cyprus bar association said on Wednesday it was “surprised” that the Cyprus Public Audit Oversight Board could not back allegations it made in parliament on Monday that lawyers were ...

Turkey’s finance minister said the country’s economic transformation was on track and that the country was prepared to deal with slower growth. Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said that ...

The demand by descendants of artist Stass Paraskos to have use of facilities at the Lemba Cultural Village is not supported by legislation nor by the opinion of the legal ...

The recently-widowed and aged Cypriot neighbour of a friend took to going to church in the evenings unaware she was being watched. One night, she returned to find her home ...

The education ministry has started providing materials to schools to improve Greek language learning for students for whom it is a second language, it announced on Wednesday. The materials, which ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu on Tuesday night suggested that the north be renamed as the “hitman’s paradise of northern Cyprus”, in response to the ...

I’m thinking of writing a somewhat negative review for this place, I tell my faithful dining companion days after we’ve had dinner at Guido and the Goose. “Is ...

Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner had an audience on Wednesday with the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, himself a keen tennis player, the Vatican said. Sinner was invited to the ...

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died ...

Airport security has always been a tough balancing act. On the one hand, the need to protect passengers, crew, and infrastructure has to be a priority. However, this has to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said the arrests and court cases regarding the development of Greek Cypriot-owned land in the north have “clearly become acts of terrorism”. “The ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are back in Texas and on the ground for the second time this year. The state has become ground zero for one ...