Archive November 2025

Investors pulled roughly $523 million from BlackRock’s flagship iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT.O) on November 18, according to data from Farside Investors, marking the fund’s largest single-day withdrawal since its ...

Continued municipal resistance to implementing the pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) system is drawing renewed criticism amid warnings from the European Union over Cyprus’ broader waste management shortcomings. Municipalities argue they require clarity ...

Eberechi Eze scored a majestic hat-trick for Arsenal as they trounced north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 to open up a commanding six-point lead at the top of the Premier ...

“Wonders are many, and none is more wondrous than man;But when he turns away from justice, no city can he save.” – Sophocles, Antigone The recent remarks of Jean-Pierre Lacroix, ...

By Flora Alexandrou The Cyprus church has recently urged us to procreate, to set our fertility in motion. Through its new Plan of the Holy Archdiocese of Cyprus for Tackling ...

Fire trucks are struggling to reach the blaze, which has been burning since around 10am between the communities of Kili and Stroumbi in the Paphos district, Kili community leader Michalis ...

A nationwide women’s conference in Nicosia set out a series of concerns and calls for action on gender equality on Sunday, as speakers highlighted progress but warned that major ...

Alt season is coming, and traders are moving funds from Bitcoin and Ethereum into high-upside projects. Investors are looking for the best cryptos that offer strong returns in a shorter ...

Where there is no enforceable law, there exists no wrong. That is precisely what is happening at the very entrance of Latchi, Polis – one of the last unspoilt parts of ...

Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials gathered in Geneva on Sunday to discuss a draft plan presented by Washington to end the war in Ukraine, after Kyiv and its allies ...

Deputy attorney general Savvas Angelides has submitted his resignation to the president of the republic, it reported on Sunday. According to Philenews, Angelides handed in his resignation on November 16. He ...

Cyprus is stepping up preparations to host thousands of European delegates during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2026, with officials projecting around 62,500 ...

The holiday season (yes, it is here!) has plenty of magic to share for old and young. Throughout December and January, eight unique creative workshops are taking place at Centre ...

Twenty years of strict sanctions on Iran by both the United States and the United Nations did not bring down the regime of the ayatollahs. Half a dozen major waves ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday and roared back into the Formula One title battle after the shock disqualification of McLaren’s championship ...

The Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, George Papanastasiou, will participate on Monday in a European Union Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) meeting in Brussels, while on Tuesday he will travel ...

Fire crews in Limassol are trying to contain a blaze in Pachna that is burning dry grass, wild vegetation and several trees, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. ...

A 20-year-old cyclist from Syria died in the early hours of Sunday in Limassol after a collision on 28th October street, near the Enaerios traffic lights. Police said the crash ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it. As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it ...

It has been business as usual with the preparation of the Cyprus government budgets for 2026 to 2028 with little attention being paid to addressing current and future policy challenges, including narrowing ...

Cyprus has been handed a fresh proposal for direct natural-gas supply from Israel, with Energean saying its new plan for a 200-kilometre pipeline is the fastest and most practical way ...

The weather is mostly clear with increasing high cloud on Sunday. From the afternoon, medium cloud will thicken in several areas. Winds are blowing from the northeast to southeast at ...

The UK government’s new interior minister Shabana Mahmood was asked rhetorically whether she would be applying to join the anti-immigration populist party Reform UK as a backhanded compliment after ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting November 17: The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Monday released a statement summarising the recently-held annual ...