Archive 2025

Turkey’s finance minister said the country’s economic transformation was on track and that the country was prepared to deal with slower growth. Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said that ...

The demand by descendants of artist Stass Paraskos to have use of facilities at the Lemba Cultural Village is not supported by legislation nor by the opinion of the legal ...

The recently-widowed and aged Cypriot neighbour of a friend took to going to church in the evenings unaware she was being watched. One night, she returned to find her home ...

The education ministry has started providing materials to schools to improve Greek language learning for students for whom it is a second language, it announced on Wednesday. The materials, which ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu on Tuesday night suggested that the north be renamed as the “hitman’s paradise of northern Cyprus”, in response to the ...

I’m thinking of writing a somewhat negative review for this place, I tell my faithful dining companion days after we’ve had dinner at Guido and the Goose. “Is ...

Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner had an audience on Wednesday with the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, himself a keen tennis player, the Vatican said. Sinner was invited to the ...

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died ...

Airport security has always been a tough balancing act. On the one hand, the need to protect passengers, crew, and infrastructure has to be a priority. However, this has to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said the arrests and court cases regarding the development of Greek Cypriot-owned land in the north have “clearly become acts of terrorism”. “The ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are back in Texas and on the ground for the second time this year. The state has become ground zero for one ...

The Kapnos airport shuttle service on Wednesday announced it is increasing its operations by 50 per cent for routes connecting Nicosia and Paphos airport. The company stated in a press release ...

The Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA) on Wednesday welcomed the latest results from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s (CySEC) quarterly bulletin for the country’s funds sector for ...

The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS The Sullivans arrived in Limassol on Wednesday, marking its first return to Cyprus since February. According to the American embassy ...

Three candidates stepping down in favour of a fourth, another coming up in the outside lane foiling their plans and a further alienated member dismissed for not meeting the criteria ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Wednesday said that the evaluation of bids for the deepening of the Larnaca marina is currently under way, with work expected to begin soon. He ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticised Britain’s invitation to Donald Trump for a second state visit, saying it undermined his government’s effort to project a united front ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin were still ‘maybes’ for what could be the first direct peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv in years after ...

Cyprus’ online betting sector has come together to create Cyprus Online Gaming Association (COGA), according to an announcement released on Wednesday. The announcement said that the new association marks an ...

Unesco in Cyprus submitted the Cypriot musical tradition “Fones” to be included on the Unesco list of Cultural Heritage on Wednesday. Unesco Cyprus said preparations for the nomination were underway ...

Cyta marked World Telecommunications Day with a dedicated conference on women in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), aligning this year’s global theme — Gender Equality in Digital Transformation — ...

It is “hard to understand” how Greek Cypriots failed to achieve a solution to the Cyprus problem during the five and a half years in which Mustafa Akinci was Turkish ...

Petrolina, via its new “Travel with Fantom” promotional campaign, offers customers the chance to acquire one or more travel products from the Fantom collection included in the programme, with a 50 ...

Plans are under consultation to rebuild a restaurant at Lady’s Mile beach, demolished in 2012, as part of broader updates to the planning framework for the British Bases. The proposal, ...