Archive 2025

By Dr Vasilios Silivistris According to the dictionary, self-harm is a deliberate injury to oneself, typically as a manifestation of a psychological or psychiatric disorder. Or the verb meaning to ...

Turkish Cypriots on Wednesday celebrated the 102nd anniversary of the creation of the Republic of Turkey, with commemorations centring around a ceremony held at the monument to Turkey’s founding ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos travels to India on Wednesday for an official visit following an invitation from his counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to strengthen bilateral ties. The visit aims to boost ...

Dutch voters cast their ballots on Wednesday to choose between doubling down on the anti-immigration nationalism of populist Geert Wilders, who sank the last conservative coalition after a fractious two ...

Three people, aged 53, 18, and 16, have been arrested and formally charged over an assault at a school in Plati Aglandjia on October 25, police confirmed on Wednesday. All three were released to ...

Two men, aged 41 and 20, were remanded for eight days by Paphos district court on Tuesday after an arson on a commercial vehicle at the parking of a Paphos apartment block, ...

Authorities seized large quantities of untaxed tobacco at the Ayios Dometios crossing on Sunday, customs officers announced on Wednesday. Officers found 15 boxes of 200 cigarettes, two boxes of 200 heated cigarettes, five ...

The Limassol Rowing Centre, in collaboration with the Municipality of Palodia, Active Planet and Pericles Demetriou Running club, is pleased to announce the Fifth Cyprus Indoor Rowing Challenge in memory ...

The Bank of Cyprus has wrapped up its summer campaign with Visa cards, combining electric mobility with the joy of coffee! The grand prize winner of the contest is Elena ...

Preliminary investigations suggest a fire at a Nicosia high school was deliberately set in rubbish bins, police said on Wednesday. The alarm system at the school went off at around 7.10...

As Larnaca continues to unravel the Lines and Traces of this year’s Biennale, its artists present a diverse variety of parallel events that bring art and the process of ...

Cyprus has a coastline that changes character every few kilometres. From the sugar-soft sands of the east to the wild coves of the west, every stretch of shore tells a ...

PayPal (PYPL.O) said on Tuesday it entered into a deal with OpenAI that will allow ChatGPT users to buy products using the payment firm’s platform, sending its shares ...

President Donald Trump began the final leg of his Asia trip in South Korea on Wednesday, optimistic about advancing an unresolved tariff deal with the country’s President Lee Jae ...

Oracle CEO Mike Sicilia said on Tuesday that he is not concerned about an “AI bubble,” adding that there is real value in artificial intelligence as demand far outpaces supply. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping force (Unficyp) in Cyprus and special representative of the UN secretary-general Khassim Diagne for the first time ...

A weak low-pressure system is temporarily affecting Cyprus, with a weak high-pressure system expected to move in from Thursday, according to the meteorological service. On Wednesday, weather conditions across most ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced this week that the net saving of the euro area economy increased in the four quarters leading up to the second quarter of 2025, while ...

Approximately four in ten (17.4 per cent) of all households in the EU experienced difficulty or great difficulty to make ends meet in 2024, according to a report from Eurostat. At the ...

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it will abide by a ceasefire accord in Gaza, as health officials in the enclave said airstrikes had killed 104 people, with both sides ...

Bank of America (BofA) Securities confirmed its positive stance on the Greek banking sector this week, stating the banks are undergoing a transitional period as markets focus on the trough ...

Foreign-controlled companies were responsible for the majority of Cyprus’ service exports to countries outside the European Union in 2023, according to new Eurostat data on services trade by enterprise characteristics (STEC). ...

Cyprus’ property market has entered 2025 with renewed confidence and a sense of maturity. What began as a post-pandemic recovery has evolved into a steady, data-driven expansion fuelled by foreign investment, ...

Euro area banks reported a small net tightening of credit standards for loans or credit lines to enterprises in the third quarter of 2025, with a net percentage of 4 per cent, ...