Archive January 2025

A 46-year-old woman, who was allegedly shot on Sunday afternoon by her husband in their home in Peyia, Paphos, has been extubated and her condition is described as serious but ...

The prices of building materials in Cyprus dropped by 0.81 per cent in 2024 compared to 2023, according to a report released this week by the state’s statistical service. The service reported ...

Tuesday starts off partly cloudy, with isolated showers in the evening. Winds will be a northeast to southeast gentle to moderate breeze of 3 to 4 Beaufort over slight seas. Temperatures will ...

Capital markets will continue to be influenced by the demands of the digital transition, the rise of artificial intelligence, as well as new regulatory requirements, according to CySEC chairman George ...

Greece’s current account deficit shrank slightly in November compared to the same month in 2023, helped by robust tourism revenues, the Bank of Greece said on Monday. Central bank data ...

By Mike Peacock Bond vigilantism has returned to Britain, raising the prospect that the government will be forced to consider politically toxic tax rises or public spending cuts to placate ...

Average asking prices for newly listed homes in Britain had their biggest start-of-the-year increase since 2020 but uncertainty about the pace of interest rate cuts is hanging over the market, property ...

A tender for a mobile water desalination unit in Paphos is expected to be announced soon, agriculture ministry director Andreas Gregoriou said on Monday. The announcement follows a catastrophic leak ...

The deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis was very proud of the fact that last year’s tourist arrivals exceeded four million for the first time. Koumis had expected arrivals ...

A Hamas official said on Monday the Palestinian militant group would next release hostages on Sunday, a day later than expected under a complex ceasefire accord reached this month with ...

The return of US President Donald Trump to the White House is a wake-up call for European Union countries to fix their economies and become more competitive, the EU’s ...

Outgoing President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday for several of his immediate family members and people that incoming President Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including Republican former ...

President Donald Trump said on Monday he will declare a national energy emergency aimed at boosting US oil and gas production, and lowering costs for US consumers. The emergency declaration ...

At least 20 Colombian fighters from rival rebel factions were killed in weekend clashes over control of a strategic jungle area for drug trafficking, military sources and the human rights ombudsman ...

They came from New York and Washington, North Carolina and Southern California, New Jersey and Newcastle, and even Europe and China. Many were long-time supporters of incoming US President Donald ...

US President Donald Trump’s newly created cryptocurrency soared on Monday to more than $10 billion in market value as he took office for his second term, drawing in billions in ...

Newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump said on Monday he will declare illegal immigration at the US-Mexico border a national emergency, send troops there and ramp up deportations of criminal ...

Construction works on a large number of housing units will begin in 2025, director of the Land Development Organisation Eleni Symeonidou told the House finance committee on Monday, where MPs were ...

During the four years since the law came into force granting access to information held by public authorities, the Information Commissioner has received 78 complaints from members of the public, the ...

Fixing the fault at Mavrokolympos dam is “extremely difficult”, the Water Development Department said on Monday evening, explaining that the problem was at a point inaccessible while the reservoir was ...

By David Morgan, Gabriella Borter, Jeff Mason and Joseph Ax Donald Trump pledged to rescue America from what he described as years of betrayal and decline in his inaugural address ...

Over €80 million in benefits have not been claimed from 2014 to date, commissioner for agricultural payments (Capo) Andreas Kyprianou told the House finance committee on Monday. Kyprianou added that 300 young farmers ...

Cyprus and the US can achieve a lot working closely together, President Nikos Christodoulides said, congratulating Doland Trump for his inauguration as 47th president of the United States. In a ...

Tech billionaires, foreign diplomats and CEOs shadowed US President Donald Trump on Monday, with several attending St John’s Church in Washington and seated prominently on the dais in the ...