Archive 2025

During the week of October 13-19, the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank took place, with discussions primarily focused on long-term global economic challenges ...

Coordination continues between the UNHCR in Nairobi and the crisis management centre of the foreign ministry in Nicosia to bring home 22 Cypriots trapped in Tanzania, ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said ...

The Israeli foreign ministry on Sunday named Aviv Ezra as their new ambassador in Cyprus. He will replace Oren Anolik in August 2026 if his appointment is approved by the Cyprus ...

As November begins, it brings with it a busy cultural agenda at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol. First approaching is an anniversary concert by the ESTIA Cultural Association today celebrating 30 ...

Russian air attacks on Ukraine killed two people overnight and left tens of thousands more – and the entire eastern Donetsk region – without power, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. Moscow has ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Saturday and Sunday met officials from a number of countries participating in the Manama Dialogue, held under the auspices of the International Institute for Strategic ...

After receiving a tip off, police said on Sunday afternoon they had found seven pistols in an open area of Nicosia. The weapons were reportedly found in Makedonitissa, and according ...

A traffic accident on the Limassol to Paphos highway near Ypsonas has caused tailbacks on the road, police said on Sunday afternoon. The right lane has been closed, causing traffic ...

The cooperation of everyone is needed to implement tax reform as of January 1, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, adding that any delay would be to the detriment of improving ...

A 32-year-old British man was the sole suspect accused of a mass stabbing on a train in England, after another man arrested in the case was released on Sunday with ...

We need a patriotism of responsibility, realism and results, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in Nicosia on Sunday during a brief trip to Cyprus. He was speaking at a ...

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote TS Eliot in 1925, probably responding to the profoundly unsatisfactory aftermath of the First World War (...

A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the asteroid strike that abruptly ended the age of dinosaurs, according to research ...

Several Cypriot supermarkets have recently proceeded with the introduction of electronic shelf labels (ESL’s), replacing paper price tags as most of us know them. The supermarkets say the move ...

At around 7am on Sunday, while traffic police were carrying out speed checks on the Limassol Nicosia highway near Kalavasos, a vehicle driven by a 40-year-old man was recorded moving ...

By Dr Andreas Procopiou The launch of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market (CEM) on October 1, 2025, marked a historic milestone for the island’s energy system. For the first time, electricity is ...

Police on Sunday appealed for information concerning a traffic accident in which a 28-year-old man was seriously injured in Nicosia on Saturday after a driver fled the scene. The accident ...

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday the Lebanese government must fulfill its commitment to disarm Hezbollah and remove it from southern Lebanon, as Israel continued to intermittently attack ...

Tehran will rebuild its nuclear facilities “with greater strength”, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state media on Sunday, adding that the country does not seek a nuclear weapon. US ...

Five German climbers have died after being caught in an avalanche in the Italian Alps, local authorities said on Sunday. The climbers had set out on Saturday to scale Cima ...

The carer of an English Cypriot woman stabbed to death in front of her elderly parents will remain indefinitely in psychiatric hospital, a British court ruled on Friday. London Cypriot ...

Applications by young farmers for grants worth a total of €67.5 million are open, the agriculture ministry reminded on Sunday. The scheme are part of a 10-point plan announced by the ...

Deep under the Mediterranean, scientists have recorded the highest-energy neutrino ever detected. Now they are working out what this elusive particle could reveal about the universe we live in. By ...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) – the electricity link connecting Cyprus, Greece and eventually Israel – is reaching another critical milestone. Sadly, Cyprus risks repeating a familiar pattern where strategic national projects ...