Archive October 2025

Drone sightings overnight at Germany’s Munich airport led to the cancellation and diversion of dozens of flights on the eve of a national holiday, leaving nearly 3,000 passengers stranded, and ...

Friday’s weather is expected to be mostly warm across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather in the afternoon. Those clouds may produce isolated rain in ...

Cyprus retail trade recorded strong growth in August 2025, driven by higher turnover and sales volume, according a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). The Turnover Value ...

Economic policy uncertainty in the United States has a direct impact on euro area firms’ access to financing, the European Central Bank (ECB) said in a blog post this week, ...

Two men were killed on Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue where worshippers were marking Yom ...

Inflation in Cyprus continued to decline on an annual basis for the fifth consecutive month in September, according to figures released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Thursday handed over the draft state budget for 2026 amounting to €10.7 billion to House president Annita Demetriou, with the House expected to vote on it by ...

Cyprus-headquartered ASBISc Enterprises Plc, commonly referred to as Asbis, has announced the acquisition of CPT Praha spol. s r.o., a Czech distributor specialising in premium audio products. The board ...

The Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) announced the launch of its AI-REAL Toolkit at the G20 Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence Ministers’ Meeting in Cape Town on Thursday, marking what it ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) this week issued new guidance on annual fees under the Digital Operational Resilience Act for the financial sector, known as DORA. The announcement ...

The municipality of Aradippou has strongly opposed the construction and operation of a pyrolysis and refining plant in the Koshi area of Larnaca district. Pyrolysis is the heating of an ...

The audit office should be commended for highlighting the long-term water policy failures, for which all the governments of the last 30 years have a share of responsibility. They have all ...

Egypt’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Cairo was working with Qatar and Turkey to convince Hamas to accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end a ...

A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has uncovered more evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be able to support life, with additional complex organic ...

Parliament on Thursday passed regulations relating to the identification of owners of pay-as-you-go mobile phones, who have until November 10 to register their name. The regulations aim to end the anonymity ...

“For the first time, citizens and businesses in Cyprus can choose their electricity supplier,” government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday, as the country opened its long-awaited competitive energy market. ...

Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings on peaceful resistance and non-violence remain a source of inspiration, House president Annita Demetriou said on Thursday during a ceremony honouring his bust near the House ...

A demonstration outside the foreign ministry building in Nicosia went awry on Thursday afternoon when police clashed with pro-Palestine demonstrators. At one point the riot squad used pepper spray as ...

Authorities on Thursday placed under arrest one of two persons wanted for questioning in connection with the attempted murder of a 42-year-old man in Limassol earlier this week. The wanted 39...

Opposition party Akel tabled a bill on Thursday that would repeal a law passed earlier this year regulating public gatherings and parades, decried by critics as draconian. The bill is ...

A new art exhibition has just opened at XeniArtSpace Gallery, bringing the silent female figures of mythology to the forefront. The Echoes of Her: Women in Greek Myths exhibition is ...

Only three of the island’s water dams have contingency plans in case of catastrophic failure, while almost two-thirds of the water bodies are in bad shape, the auditor-general’s ...

Afsaneh Mohammadi, 58, was murdered by her ex-husband in front of their 40-year-old daughter on Wednesday, police confirmed on Thursday. The killing marks the second femicide on the island within eight ...

As crypto prices today continue to attract global attention and analysts debate why is crypto going up despite market uncertainty, institutional investors and whales are shifting their strategies. Large portfolios ...