Archive August 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won backing from Europe and Nato on Sunday as he rallied diplomatic support ahead of a Russia-US summit this week where Kyiv fears Vladimir Putin and ...

Israel aims to take on Hamas’ two remaining strongholds in its new Gaza offensive, which it hopes will conclude “fairly quickly” and end the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ...

United States Vice President JD Vance said a negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine is unlikely to satisfy either side, and any peace deal will likely leave both Moscow and ...

Just over 100 days since “Liberation Day” – the moment President Trump unveiled his new international trade rules – a seismic shift is underway in the global economic order. On August 7, the latest ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Sunday evening levelled criticism at political opposition and the Republic of Cyprus as the north suffered a third day of power cuts ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple Labs have formally dismissed their respective appeals. Thus, conclusively ending nearly five years of intense litigation. This pivotal development resolves the ...

The EU is currently facing adverse shocks that reflect inherent weaknesses, including: (a) the difficulty in building consensus and promoting unified positions, (b) an over-dependence on the US, especially on ...

The Evangelos Florakis naval base at Mari and the Andreas Papandreou airbase in Paphos are “of Cypriot interest and Cypriot ownership”, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Sunday. He had ...

As altcoin season gains momentum, two tokens are capturing investor attention for their promising 10x growth potential in the coming months: Mutuum Finance (MUTM) and the popular memecoin SHIB. While ...

A total of 12 mobile desalination units imported from the United Arab Emirates are now in operation, with one more set to enter service soon, and more to be imported next ...

It seems there will be a summit between presidents Trump and Putin to discuss Ukraine in the absence of Ukraineand Europe. There has been no diplomatic preparation for a summit, ...

The risk of forest fires breaking out on Monday has been set at “red alert”, the forestry department said on Sunday afternoon. It also warned the public that the act ...

Parataxis Holdings is establishing a major $640 million Bitcoin treasury, targeting US and Korean investors following its public listing.  Simultaneously, former President Donald Trump has signed an executive order unlocking the ...

Wildfires, droughts, increased electricity demand, impacts on agriculture and tourism: with climate change they have not only become permanent but are intensifying. And making it even more challenging, the Mediterranean ...

The Pachyammos village council on Sunday demanded that President Nikos Christodoulides set as “a matter of highest priority” the opening of a crossing point into the Turkish Cypriot exclave of ...

New beginnings are on the horizon and as such the Nicosia International Festival enters a refreshed phase. Not only will it present a rich sixth edition packed with performances and ...

Sporadic power cuts across the north continued into a third day on Sunday after an explosion at a substation on Friday had caused the entire grid to collapse. The north’...

It’s looking like another mixed – but mostly acceptable – year for Ayia Napa, and another step in its gradual transformation. Clubbing-wise, the resort’s heyday was a crazy few years ...

Two days after Turkish Cypriots had travelled to the village of Kokkina to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Battle of Tillyria, a Greek Cypriot memorial service for the same ...

By Flora Alexandrou With its Greek-tinged tone, kakistocracy is a word familiar to some, unfamiliar to many, yet more relevant than ever and increasingly accurate in describing systems we still ...

Twenty years ago on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737-300 took off at 9.07am from Larnaca airport with 115 passengers and six crew on board. By 12.03pm, no one on that Helios Airways ...

The Larnaca district court will in the coming days make a ruling to decide whether Kenan Ayaz, who was convicted last year of being a member of a proscribed terrorist ...

The labour inspection department on Sunday ordered that all outside work be suspended between 12pm and 4pm in areas impacted by the orange weather warning, with high temperatures forecast for ...

Police in Paphos are investigating an alleged kidnapping, with two people already having been arrested. The police said they were informed on Saturday by the Romanian authorities about the case ...