Archive 2025

Police warned drivers on Sunday afternoon that roads in the mountains had become treacherous following heavy rains. Rocks and soil had fallen onto them making them slippery and hazardous, police ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Sunday denied she misled the public over official forecasts ahead of this month’s budget, saying she had been honest about the need to ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the country’s president on Sunday for a pardon in his years-long corruption trial, arguing that criminal proceedings were hindering his ability to govern ...

Cyprus’ efforts to get aid through to the people of Gaza has been “very positive and constructive”, Israeli president Isaac Herzog said on Sunday. In an interview with Phileleftheros, he ...

For the last month of the year, Rialto Theatre has prepared a packed calendar of music and theatre performances sprinkled, of course, with some Christmas productions for all ages. Here’...

Despite everything else going on at the moment, like Christmas shopping, writing Christmas cards and wrapping parcels, the garden doesn’t stop growing and there can be a plethora of ...

Fighting bureaucracy, as a prerequisite for enhancing economic growth, is among the top priorities of many countries. In the US and Argentina, the approach is radical, characterised by large-scale horizontal ...

A 14-year-old boy was injured on Sunday when the car he was driving on a rural road in Athienou overturned. The accident happened under circumstances being investigated by the police ...

The world is filled with sunken cities. One study has counted 2,600 in 19 countries – victims of the Great Flood myth that permeates various ancient cultures from the Sumerians to the Bible – ...

The young driver of a car in which a teenage girl lost her life on Friday night was on Sunday remanded in police custody for three days by Famagusta district ...

“What’s it about?” was a frequent response from bemused theatre-goers to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, Tom Stoppard’s first stage triumph. Tired of being asked, Stoppard is said ...

Cyprus, as the upcoming president of the EU council, took an active role in the COP30 negotiations in Brazil, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Sunday. Europe, she added, insisted ...

Turkey has been intensifying its promotion of a “two-state” solution in Cyprus, turning it into the centrepiece of its diplomatic narrative – or so it appears. Most recently, during a meeting ...

A 49-year-old man was remanded in police custody for four days on Sunday after shots were fired in a residential area early the previous day. The man faces charges of ...

Pope Leo arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for peace in a country that is a continued target of Israeli air strikes, on the second ...

An eight-day remand order was re-issued against a 58-year-old man on Sunday after the stabbing of 26-year-old Alexandros Antoniou in Konia ten days ago. Police investigator Andronikos Tsappis said the ...

Shortly before midnight on Saturday, police received information about shots being fired at a building in Nicosia. Police officers went to the area to conduct examinations found holes in the ...

The Pachyammos Kato Pyrgos road has been branded dangerous by the police after heavy rainfall overnight made slippery. Police said the heavy rainfall had made driving conditions dangerous, and called ...

Increased security measures for a football match between Limassol teams Ael and Apollon were announced by the police on Sunday. Police press officer Marina Christodoulidou said they will implement a ...

President Donald Trump said on Saturday the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “closed in its entirety,” but gave no further details, stirring anxiety and confusion in Caracas ...

Four people died after 14 people were shot at a family gathering in Stockton in northern California on Saturday night, police said. The shooting took place at a child’s birthday ...

The country does not recognise same-sex marriages or civil unions Poland is a devoutly Catholic country and its laws on same sex marriage are less tolerant of homosexuality than other ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting November 24: For many, the word ‘forex‘ evokes images seen on social media: luxury cars, quick fortunes, and charismatic ...

A PROVISIONAL agreement for settling the issue of supplementing the provident funds of bank employees, whose deposits were reduced as a result of the 2013 haircut was reached at an agreement ...