Archive 2025

Emergency repatriation flights to Israel resumed shortly after noon on Sunday from Larnaca airport, following earlier cancellations due to the overnight US airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran. According ...

That’s right, for one more summer, the courtyard of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in downtown Nicosia will welcome music, dance, theatre and poetry performances, as well as ...

The door to the Postal Museum creaked open and then silence.   Instead of the soft hum of tourists flipping through postcards or the shuffling of school groups, I was greeted ...

Gulf states, home to multiple U.S. military bases, were on high alert on Sunday with their leaders calling on all parties to exercise maximum restraint following U.S. strikes ...

The House Finance Committee is set to begin deliberations on Monday on a bill aimed at the privatisation of the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE), a key milestone in the country’...

Preserving regional security and ensuring diplomacy prevails to avoid further escalation is the main priority, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Sunday, following the overnight US strike against Iran. Letymbiotis ...

Roughly 15 per cent of Cyprus is classified as agricultural land, an estimated 34,000 farms spread across the island. Farming remains high on the public agenda, with agricultural representatives regularly voicing concerns. ...

The defence of Cyprus’ territorial integrity and the protection of its values and ideals were never given, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Sunday, speaking at a memorial event in ...

I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again. “They lied,” said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will travel to Brussels on Sunday to take part in Monday’s meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, the Foreign Ministry announced. Key topics on ...

Around 10,000 Russian soldiers are fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, about 90 square kilometers (35 square miles) of which is controlled by Ukraine, Ukraine’s top military commander said. “We control about 90 ...

By Dr Andreas Procopiou In recent weeks, public discourse in Cyprus around the future of the electricity market has been flooded with voices suggesting we should “freeze” electricity prices, just ...

A total of 19 special repatriation flights are scheduled to depart from Larnaca Airport on Sunday for Israel and Jordan, as efforts continue to facilitate the return of Israeli nationals amid ...

The management of water resources requires seriousness, responsibility, and universal cooperation, the agriculture ministry’s director general Andreas Gregoriou said in a statement to CNA on Sunday regarding the recent ...

EU-funded researchers have developed robust mini robots with advanced sensors to help search and rescue teams find survivors in the aftermath of earthquakes and other disasters. By Michael Allen In ...

The bursting of interrelated credit and property bubbles has caused financial crises in the US and certain European countries, including Cyprus, in recent decades. The epicentre of the global financial ...

Cyprus will not become a base for military operations, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Sunday, stressing that this is “clear and unequivocal,” and that Cyprus’ partners and friends are ...

The met office said on Sudnay that there will be mostly clear weather, with a chance of isolated afternoon showers, mainly in mountainous areas. Morning low clouds are expected, especially ...

A fire that broke out in the early hours of Sunday caused extensive damage to an apartment used as an office in central Larnaca, authorities confirmed. According to Fire Service ...

Cyprus has strongly condemned Turkey’s ongoing exploitation of Greek Cypriot properties in the north, accusing Ankara of persistent violations of international law and deliberate obstruction of efforts to reach ...

The world awaited Iran’s response on Sunday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. had “obliterated” Tehran’s most sensitive nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western ...

Airlines continued to avoid large parts of the Middle East on Sunday after U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, with traffic already skirting ...

Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $90.9 billion in the first quarter of 2025, according to estimates by industry analysts Canalys. The company reported that this represents a 21 per cent increase ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting June 16: Cyprus has slipped one place in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2025, ranking 44th globally, according to the ...