Archive 2025

Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus on Tuesday told a visiting contingent of over 150 Turkish Cypriot mukhtars that there is “no other way” to find a solution to the Cyprus problem ...

Russia and Belarus are rehearsing the launch of Russian tactical nuclear weapons as part of joint war games, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday. State media quoted the Belarusian ...

Actor, director and producer Robert Redford, who was both the quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and an influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, had died at the ...

Three ancient coins were donated to the antiquities department after they were found among donations given to the Sophia for Children organisation, it announced on Tuesday. The three coins were ...

Britain’s jobs market has lost a little more steam, official data showed on Tuesday, potentially easing worries at the Bank of England about persistent inflation pressures. The Office for ...

By Karen Taylor Cyprus has long been recognised as a crossroads of civilisations, located as it is between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In much the same way, the ...

The Cyprus Property Developers Association (CPDA) has urged the government to replace the €1,000 per spouse or partner tax exemption for household green upgrades proposed in the draft tax reform with ...

A 58-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning on the Avdelleros-Athienou road after driving a public bus while he was seven times over the legal alcohol limit. Traffic police stopped ...

The issue of whether girls should be allowed to attend public schools in the north while wearing hijabs returned to the fore on Tuesday, with Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes the pomp of a royal welcome for U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit to Britain this week will offer him protection from ...

Recently introduced eIDs are being produced by a private company, formerly headed by Deputy Research Minister Nicodemos Damianou, which was awarded the contract without going through a tender process, an ...

Spanish state broadcaster RTVE’s board voted on Tuesday to withdraw from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in May in Vienna if Israel takes part in the event. ...

Roughly two out of three Americans believe that the harsh rhetoric used in talking about politics is encouraging violence, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the days following ...

A fire which broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Limassol left a vehicle completely obliterated, police said on Tuesday. The fire broke out at around 1.50am ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange has expressed concern and disappointment over the exclusion of proposals that could strengthen the capital market from the planned tax reform, calling on the government to ...

Deputy European Affairs Minister Marilena Raouna told her EU counterparts on Tuesday that Cyprus is “deeply concerned over the expansion of military operations” in the Middle East, adding that the ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday travelled to the State of Israel to meet his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen. According to his ministry, he will participate in a “roundtable discussion ...

The National Guard has introduced a digital platform to notify reservists and military personnel via text message, the defence ministry announced on Tuesday. This initiative was introduced within the context ...

Cyprus’ wholesale trade sector saw its turnover value rise by 4.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to the state statistical service. ...

The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (Greco) demanded that Cyprus make more progress in the next 18 months for the country to reach an “acceptable” level of ...

Building permits in Cyprus fell 14.4 per cent in May 2025, according to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), highlighting a slowdown in construction activity despite rising values and dwelling units. The number ...

Pandora Investments Public Ltd on Monday announced its interim management report for the six months ended June 30, 2025, posting a net profit of €7.23 million compared with a net loss of €1.07 million ...

The widespread use of technology and the internet has triggered an explosion of online fraud, with consumers falling prey to scammers and complaints pouring in daily. Chairman of the Cyprus ...

Logicom Public Ltd announced this week that its board of directors will meet on September 25, 2025. The meeting will examine, among other matters, the interim unaudited financial statements of both the ...