Archive April 2025

Pope Francis held a private meeting at the Vatican on Sunday morning with US Vice President JD Vance, the Vatican said in a statement. Vance, a Catholic who has clashed ...

The Tolmi addiction centre in Paphos is aiming to open a new residential addiction treatment facility, with the town’s municipality having given a “positive” response to the idea, the ...

Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP, on Saturday decried the “bankruptcy” of the country’s foreign policy in the wake of the signing ...

Non-governmental organisation Accept – LGBTI Cyprus on Sunday reacted with fury to an image of an Easter bonfire, known as a “lambradjia”, adorned with placards with “LGBT” written on them. In ...

With President Trump pausing his punitive tariffs for 90 days, it will take time before the negotiations that will follow realign global trading to the new developing international order. Already analysts ...

Pope Francis reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in an Easter Sunday message read aloud by an aide as the pontiff, still recovering from pneumonia, looked on ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate on Saturday night slammed “fictitious” and “unfounded” allegations levelled against the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and others regarding reported ...

Rocks and firecrackers were thrown at the police by youths in the Larnaca suburb in Livadia when they responded to a call in the area at around midnight, the police ...

A 40-year-old man from Paphos suffered a “serious injury” to one of his hands after a firecracker was thrown at him, the police said on Sunday. The police said the ...

A 45-year-old man from Paphos was arrested after being found to be illegally in possession of a total of 55 firecrackers and four fireworks, the police said on Sunday. The police ...

The fire brigade were called to a total of 94 incidents related to the lighting of Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”, overnight, spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. He said there ...

The enchanting Nama Dama is set to captivate Limassol with her spellbinding new album, Pagan Soul, marking her first-ever performance in the city. Blending electronic folk, hypnotic pop, and tribal ...

Hulusi Kilim, the secretary-general of bicommunal political party Volt, on Saturday returned photographs of his grandparents to the Paphos district village of Amargeti, the village in which they had lived ...

If Easter seems the wrong time to mention that lab-grown meat may one day replace our souvla-piled plates on Cyprus’ great meat-eating day, we have to prepare ourselves for the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday said opposition movements in the north are “betraying the TRNC”. He told Turkish newspaper Sabah of how opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman “...

A 22-year-old man was fatally injured late on Saturday afternoon as he was helping construct an Easter bonfire (lambradjia) in Strovolos, Nicosia. A large pole fell from the lambradjia stack, ...

EU-funded researchers are developing a smarter system of sustainable cooling, replacing toxic refrigerants with safer, more efficient and recyclable metals. By Kaja Šeruga As a young engineering student contemplating the ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that the Russian army is making a pretence of an Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, continuing overnight attempts to inflict front-line losses ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting April 14: Despite facing persistent structural challenges, the Cypriot manufacturing industry continues to demonstrate remarkable resilience in the face ...

OpenAI has launched its new AI model GPT-4.1, along with smaller versions GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano, touting major improvements in coding, instruction following, and long context comprehension. The new ...

Apple (AAPL.O) took the top spot for global smartphone sales in the first quarter on the back of the iPhone 16e’s launch and strong demand in countries such ...

A steep drop in crude oil prices largely due to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs will squeeze budgets of emerging market oil exporters, analysts said, while the potential economic ...

Nvidia has said that it is planning to build AI servers worth as much as $500 billion in the US over the next four years with help from partners such as ...

Manchester City moved a step closer to Champions League football next season as Nico O’Reilly and Mateo Kovacic scored in the final five minutes to secure a 2-0 win ...