Archive 2025

Over 800 civil weddings – mostly of foreigners – were celebrated in the Akamas municipality last year, with a higher number expected in 2025, civil marriage officer Maria Yiangou told the Cyprus Mail on ...

The debate on the placement of cameras in certain areas to cut down on crime versus the right to privacy seems almost moot in today’s digital age. The justice ...

Arsenal’s Declan Rice pulled rank on his captain and the club’s set piece coach and it proved an inspired decision as he struck two sublime free kicks to ...

The US State Department on Tuesday announced that American and Russian delegations will meet for a second time in Istanbul on April 10 to “solely” discuss stabilising bilateral embassy operations. Speaking ...

A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, a flight hailed by Moscow as an example ...

Tenstorrent’s intention to establish an office and operate in Cyprus was announced by the company’s CEO Jim Keller on Tuesday, during a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. Government ...

The United States “will have no patience for bad faith negotiation or violation of commitments” as it seeks to end the war in Ukraine, acting US Ambassador to the United ...

A high-level Cypriot delegation held a number of strategic meetings in Silicon Valley with leading technology companies including Amazon (Zoox), Oracle, ServiceNow and Microsoft, as well as academic institutions such ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Nasa will tell senators on Wednesday that the agency will prioritise a Mars mission, while noting that most US space programmes are over ...

The deputy welfare ministry is “committed to the implementation of the project for restructuring the social welfare services,” it said on Tuesday. It added that over the past two years, ...

An estimated 13,000 Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of northern Nicosia on Tuesday evening to protest against the ruling coalition’s attempts to legalise the wearing of hijabs and other ...

Cyprus will “immediately repatriate” three people arrested after an attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini where they ...

Fake messages are being sent out asking people to settle unpaid electricity bills. The messages are supposedly sent from the electricity authority (EAC) by sms, urging consumers to follow the ...

Workers at the Meteorology Department on Tuesday reiterated their strong objections to plans to relocate the department’s premises from Larnaca airport to Athalassa in Nicosia, going so far as ...

A staggering 44 per cent of workers would consider moving to another country for better pay, Sek trade union said on Tuesday. Presenting the findings of a survey it commissioned, Sek ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a prior ruling by a lower court which had voided a €25,000 administrative fine slapped on a brokerage firm executive by the Securities and ...

A bill on small photovoltaic owners using the electricity they produce, forbidding switching off energy from renewable sources if that reaching the grid needs to be reduced, is being sent ...

The European Commission has signed a new agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), allocating an additional €5 million to support the work of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage ...

US investment bank Goldman Sachs said bond pricing inferred that markets believed there was 70 per cent probability of a Ukraine peace deal, up sharply from before the November election of ...

Luxury mansions are up for sale in the north, especially in Kyrenia and Trikomo, with prices reaching up to £6 million, with rich Turkish Cypriots and foreigners interested in buying, Turkish ...

There is a lot happening this month: Easter traditions, events for little ones, performances and returning music festivals. One of them is the newest edition of the Classical Music Festival ...

Barcelona have not lost a game this year but their manager Hansi Flick is not getting carried away ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg against Borussia Dortmund. ...

The procedures for the safe arrival and reception of civilians from a neighbouring country in a crisis were put to the test on Tuesday during an exercise at Limassol port. ...

The European Union will not tolerate threats to Bosnia’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional order, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday, referring to separatist moves by ...