Archive July 2025

Through a creative cooking seminar that was materialised at the Lidl Food Academy in Nicosia, media representatives and Influencers had the opportunity to experience firsthand the delicious quality and authentic ...

WhatsApp should prepare to leave the Russian market, a lawmaker who regulates the IT sector said on Friday, warning that the messaging app owned by Meta Platforms was likely to ...

Washington is thrown into catastrophe. In the opening episode of Netflix’s Designated Survivor an explosion during the State of the Union address kills the President, the Vice President, and ...

Hotel workers on Friday announced their intention to strike, complaining that some employers are refusing to implement a labour agreement struck between workers and employers last December, while the Cyprus ...

The Paralimni-Deryneia municipality announced on Friday that it will install FireWatch AI, a cutting-edge early wildfire detection system, following a decision by the municipal council. “As part of the agreement, 15 ...

Cyprus’ working life expectancy has climbed to 39 years, placing the island well above the EU average of 37.2 years in 2024, according to Eurostat data released on Friday. The figure reflects the ...

The finance ministry has “absolutely refused” to pay any money to Greece’s independent transmission system operator (Admie) for the Great Sea Interconnector project, on account of the fact that ...

The European Union has eased rules for Turks to use its open-border Schengen area, the bloc’s ambassador to Ankara said on Friday, calling for the urgent revival of negotiations ...

Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. presented Israel and Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas with an updated Gaza ceasefire proposal on Wednesday, Axios reported on Thursday, citing two sources. The ...

The construction materials price index reached 119.03 units in June, based on 2021 as the reference year, according to official data released on Friday. The Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) reported that this ...

President of the hoteliers association (Pasyxe) Thanos Michaelides on Friday said hotel occupancy in July ranges between 80 and 85 per cent, stating that the flow of reservations is normal for this ...

Austrian extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident in central Italy, local police said. He ...

The Limassol municipality on Friday took receipt of four new defibrillators, which were donated by non-profit organisation the Blueheart foundation. The defibrillators were delivered to the city’s mayor Yiannis ...

Piri Piri Chicken For the marinade 2 tablespoons olive oil 100g dried onion, cut in half 75 g sweet red pepper 1 piri piri pepper (10g) or other chili 2 cloves of garlic 4 tablespoons ...

The Larnaca tourism board (Etap), in collaboration with local authorities and with the support of the Deputy Ministry of Tourism, is pressing ahead with a series of targeted interventions to ...

Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Nicodemos Damianou participated in the Informal Competitiveness Council of the European Union on Research, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, between July 16–17, 2025. ...

Transforming corporate philanthropy in crisis The outbreak of Russia’s full-scale invasion marked a pivotal moment for the Favbet Foundation, a corporate charitable organization founded in 2020 by entrepreneur Andrii Matiukha. ...

A new beach is to be created in the heart of Limassol, the city’s mayor Yiannis Armeftis said on Friday. Speaking to newspaper Phileleftheros, he confirmed that the area, ...

Cyprus has emerged as a key growth market for major Greek IT groups, which are steadily expanding their presence on the island while boosting their international reach across Europe. From ...

Syrian security forces are preparing to redeploy to the Druze-majority Sweida city to quell fighting with Bedouin tribes, a Syrian interior ministry spokesperson said on Friday, further straining a fragile ...

Property transactions on the island climbed 15 per cent in the first half of 2025, but the booming market is leaving students and families facing steep rents ahead of the academic year. “...

A 24-year-old man had his rucksack robbed while waiting at a bus stop in Larnaca on Thursday night, the police said on Friday. The rucksack reportedly contained “personal items” and €50 ...

The European Union reached an agreement on an 18th sanctions package against Russia over its war in Ukraine, with a raft of measures aimed at dealing further blows to Russia’...

The need for a rational regulatory framework for short-term rentals was the central focus of a recent meeting between the Cyprus Property Developers Association and Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis, chairperson of the ...