Archive April 2025

Fires will be lit outside the north’s ‘parliament’ building every weekday evening from Monday until April 28 in protest at the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the ...

In just a week, the dollar has gone from a safe haven to investors’ whipping boy as US President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs on friend and foe alike undermine ...

Britain’s government wants to dilute regulations for smaller private equity and hedge funds in a bid to bolster the country’s appeal as an investment hub. The UK finance ...

Energy group BP (BP.L) expects first-quarter gas marketing and trading earnings to be weak while net debt will rise, the company said this week, sending its shares lower. The ...

Samsung Electronics this week flagged a much smaller-than-feared 0.2 per cent fall in first-quarter operating profit, boosted by solid memory chip sales and strong smartphone demand, partly driven by customers concerned ...

German sports car maker Porsche (P911_p.DE) delivered 8 per cent fewer vehicles globally in the first quarter, it said this week, hit by declining demand in China and Europe. ...

Climate change and the future of seas and oceans were discussed on Friday between European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans Costas Kadis and president of the Cyprus Institute Stavros Malas, ...

At an event to discuss the pay-as-you throw system on Wednesday night, Disy leader and House speaker Annita Demetriou highlighted how the lack of planning has stymied yet another green ...

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff that focused on settling the Ukraine conflict concluded late on Friday after more than four hours. The Kremlin ...

President Donald Trump wants Iran to know that there will be “all hell to pay” if it does not abandon its nuclear programme, his press secretary told reporters on Friday ...

An explosion occurred outside the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens, Greek police said on Friday, adding there were no immediate reports of injuries. Police cordoned off the area after ...

The public works department has defended the new project for bus stops, saying that “it is not a scandal”, although the tender was given to a bid by €6 million higher ...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that five more law firms had agreed to devote a total of at least $600 million in free legal work to causes he supports, ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom ...

The US military has fired the commander of a US Space Force base in Greenland following a visit there by Vice President JD Vance and said it would not tolerate ...

France and Cyprus conducted a joint military training exercise, the French Embassy in Cyprus said on Friday. In a post on X, the embassy said, “As part of #CLEMENCEAU25 mission, ...

Larnaca’s criminal court sentenced two men, aged 52 and 41, to seven and four years in prison respectively, for the illegal possession of drugs with the intention of selling them. The ...

The Trump administration must explain to a federal court without delay what it is doing to facilitate the return of a Maryland resident it illegally deported to El Salvador, a ...

Euthanasia cannot be a tool for managing healthy animals, environment and animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Friday. Commenting on recent posts on social media attributed to Theodosiou, the ...

Turkish Cypriot left wing media outlets on Friday offered harsh criticism for opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman over his attendance of Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new ...

A 33-year-old man arrested in Nicosia on Thursday for illegal possession of class C controlled drugs was on Friday taken before the Nicosia district court, which issued a five-day remand ...

The police said on Friday they had arrested a tenth person in connection with the attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the ...

Two Hungarian nationals accused in a high-profile property development case will return to Nicosia Criminal Court on April 16, where they are expected to formally admit to several charges. Their lawyers ...

In an article in MEES, Peter Stevenson reveals that ExxonMobil’s Electra well in block 5 was unsuccessful. It encountered gas, but not in commercial quantities. There were high expectations that ...