Archive May 2025

The Trump administration’s trade policies continue to monopolise attention. The implications are multidimensional. Among other things, they affect the course of the dollar, as well as the exchange rates ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday he will have a meeting with the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Cyprus, María Angela Holguín Cuellar, next Saturday, May 25, ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 39-year-old man under suspicion of attempted murder and robbery, while three other persons were arrested for the offence of providing asylum to a wanted person. ...

By Dimitri Gonis Friedrich Nietzsche once quipped that ‘God learnt Greek when he wanted to become an author’. On the April 14, 2025 Unesco agreed with him, formally recognising Greek as “the ...

A joint proposal for a European programme involving the Ayia Napa-Caramella Carnival, the Patras Carnival, and the Putignano Carnival of Italy has been submitted by the Municipality of Paralimni-Dherynia. A ...

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had begun “extensive ground operations” in northern and southern Gaza, stepping up a new campaign in the enclave where Palestinian health authorities said ...

Washington and Beijing must resist the temptation to frame the relationship in purely zero-sum terms By Euripides L Evriviades Thucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in ...

A British climber beat his own record on Sunday for the most climbs of Mount Everest by a non-Sherpa, making his 19th ascent of the world’s highest mountain, a ...

Austrian advocacy group NOYB said this week it would seek an injunction against Meta Platforms (META.O) that could lead to billion-euro damages claims if the tech giant goes ahead ...

Police arrested a man and a woman under suspicion of drug possession an announcement said on Sunday, According to the announcement, on Saturday afternoon police executed a search warrant on ...

The largest known Russian drone attack since full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, ...

Romanians vote on Sunday in a presidential election run-off that pits a hard-right eurosceptic against a centrist independent, and where the outcome could have implications for both the country’s ...

China on Sunday announced anti-dumping duties as high as 74.9% on imports of POM copolymers, a type of engineering plastic, from the United States, the European Union, Japan and Taiwan. The ...

The weather on Sunday will be mostly clear, with occasional clouds, which may give isolated light rain, the met office said.  According to their announcement, winds will be mainly southwest ...

Poles were voting on Sunday in a presidential election that will decide whether Warsaw follows the pro-European path set by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, or take a step towards bringing ...

Second-place Arsenal and third-place Newcastle United will both be looking to potentially seal their places in the UEFA Champions League next season when they meet Sunday in their penultimate league ...

Immigration dominates politics in Europe and America in ways it had never done previously. It is the main platform of all right-wing movements that are mushrooming everywhere on both sides ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting May 12: A new chapter in trilateral economic relations between India, Greece, and Cyprus was officially opened on Friday ...

WE WERE subjected to a new bout of hysterical, government self-congratulation, just few weeks after the last one, when the office of the president of the European Commission announced that ...

Shortly after the appointment of Johannes Hahn as the EU envoy for the Cyprus problem was announced, former party leader and MEP Dr Eleni Theocharous felt duty bound to warn ...

Sony (6758.T) said this week that it expects operating profit to rise 0.3 per cent to 1.28 trillion yen ($8.7 billion) in the financial year ending in March, after factoring in a 100 billion ...

Kraft Heinz (KHC.O) is spending $3 billion to upgrade its US factories, its largest investment in its plants in a decade, even as executives say consumer sentiment is at its ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) has hired FedEx (FDX.N) to handle some of its large package deliveries, the companies said on Monday, weeks after UPS said it was halting its less-profitable ...

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) announced that its board has approved a new $6 billion share buyback program, boosting its total repurchase authority to about $10 billion. Shares of the ...