Archive April 2025

“The UK government takes its responsibility as a guarantor power very seriously and we are fully committed to the UN-led Cyprus settlement process,” its minister of state for Europe Stephen ...

A creative workshop for adults at the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia seeks to gather women of all ages for an inter-generational morning. The aim of the Through Clothes: Women’...

A huge blast probably caused by the explosion of chemical materials killed at least 18 people and injured more than 700 on Saturday at Iran’s biggest port, Bandar Abbas, Iranian state ...

A group of six foreign students reported they were attacked with “sharp objects” by hooded men in their Limassol home in the early hours of Saturday. Police said the students ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, met one-on-one in a marble-lined Vatican basilica on Saturday to try to ...

A total of 4.25 million tourists are expected to arrive in Cyprus by the end of 2025, Cyprus Travel and Tourism Agents Association (Actta) President Harris Papacharalambous said on Friday night at ...

A total of 2.5 acres of land planted with pine trees, wild vegetation and reed beds was burnt by a fire that broke out in Alethriko, in the Larnaca district. The ...

Indirect talks between Iran and the United States aimed at resolving a decades-long nuclear dispute have ended in Oman, Iranian state media reported, while U.S. President Donald Trump has ...

Presidents, royalty and simple mourners bade farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday at a solemn funeral ceremony, where a cardinal appealed for the pontiff’s legacy of caring for migrants, ...

Stable prospects for the Cyprus economy were outlined in the most recent Scope Ratings report, published on Friday. The credit rating agency said Cyprus showed stable economic fundamentals and one ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then ...

A chilling performance about the reality of war as seen through the eyes of children is coming to the capital as part of the Nicosia International Festival. _Bam_Boom_ is ...

Two men were arrested in Limassol on Friday afternoon for residing illegally in Cyprus and the possession of a weapon, police said on Saturday. The men were stopped by two ...

By Thomas Gift, UCL A few days ago, in a move that attracted international attention, the White House threatened to strip Harvard University of US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in federal funding, ...

Think of the longest-lasting relationship in your life. Who’s always been there, through triumph and disaster, laughter and loss? Who’s seen you at your best and worst, your ...

Writing an opinion piece makes you realise that actual change does not come about from well-meaning people analysing problems and coming up with good ideas. Change, rather, is usually the ...

More than 100,000 mourners filed into St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday to pay their respects to Pope Francis, viewing his open coffin in the final visiting hours ahead of his ...

Virginia Giuffre, one of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, has committed suicide, her family said on Friday. Giuffre, 41, died on Friday in Western Australia state, ...

The Cyprus property market has recorded a robust performance in the first quarter of 2025, with both transaction volumes and sales values reflecting strong momentum, according to a report by the ...

US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin for three hours in Moscow on Friday to discuss the US plan to end the war in ...

The final day of the second week of protests in the north against the ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by children at public schools saw ...

British companies buckled in April under the strain of an escalating global trade war that threatens to tip the economy into a new downturn, a survey has shown. The S&...

OpenAI would be interested in buying Google’s Chrome if antitrust enforcers are successful in forcing the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit to sell the popular web browser as part of ...

A US appeals court has revived a proposed data privacy class action against Shopify (SHOP.TO), a decision that could make it easier for American courts to assert jurisdiction over ...