Archive February 2025

The ‘Money Conference 2025: Investment Outlook Opportunities & the AI Impact’, held in Nicosia this week, explored key investment prospects and the market impact of artificial intelligence. The conference, which was ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has announced a significant policy change, allowing for a broader range of cases in which prospectuses can be submitted in English. The regulator ...

Chinese startup DeepSeek will make its models’ code publicly available, it said on Friday, doubling down on its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence. The company said in a post on ...

British consumers turned a little less pessimistic this month as the Bank of England’s latest interest rate cut led to an improvement in expectations for their household finances, according ...

Ergani, the government’s online system designed to combat illegal work, is failing to fulfil its intended purpose, according to the employers’ federation (OEV). The federation is calling on the ...

We often wonder what is the point of town planning rules and so-called zoning? Do they exist so that they can be ignored by the authorities when a developer comes ...

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder. Matar, 27, can ...

Shipping Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanolis was in Brussels on Friday, where she participated in the high-level roundtable on the European Ocean Pact, organised by the European Commission. This followed an ...

In the mood for music? The Love & Rock performance at Ypsonas Municipal Theatre on Saturday will highlight iconic romance melodies from world cinema and musicals in a unique rock ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said he aims for 30 per cent of the north’s land to be covered by forest. Speaking during a visit to the north’...

A total of four employers and four workers were arrested after it was found that they had been employed illegally and that they did not have residence permits to live ...

Alibaba’s shares opened 10 per cent higher in Hong Kong on Friday to reach their highest level in more than three years, after it reported third-quarter revenues just above analysts’ ...

The supreme court has rejected the appeal of state forensic pathologist Panicos Stavrianos, reaffirming that the death of 26-year-old national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou was a criminal act. The ruling upholds ...

The government is to create a paramedics’ registry, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said the bill will “secure” the profession, adding ...

Snow in Istanbul led to 13 flights to and from the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport being cancelled on Friday. The flights were cancelled after snow in and around the city ...

The leaderships of Electricity Authority (EAC) trade unions will meet on Monday to examine “serious developments” in the energy sector. In a letter to the authority’s board, the four ...

A bill to legalise the creation of university clinics is to be put before cabinet next Wednesday, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (...

The European Union will seek more gas from countries including the US to replace Russian supplies, and expand renewable energy faster to cut its overall reliance on the fuel, the ...

The donation drive to fund the “Karpasia donkeys management plan” aims to raise 2.28 million TL (€59,793), Kemal Basat, director of its overseeing organisation, the Tashkent nature park, said on Friday. He ...

A tender process with the aim of installing two new generators at the Dhekelia power station has begun, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. Speaking after a meeting with ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter studying the nesting habits of green and loggerhead turtles have discovered that the turtles are returning to the island earlier each year, a phenomenon ...

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Concerns have emerged over reports that schools planned to participate in activities involving trips to the north, specifically the Kyrenia harbour. The programme, organised by the association for historical dialogue ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in a mass funeral aimed at showing ...