Archive January 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces in Minnesota after days of angry protests over a surge in immigration agents ...

European countries sent small numbers of military personnel to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark said it was pressing on with plans for a “larger and more permanent” NATO presence to ...

Several people were injured after a major blast caused a fire in a buildingin the center of Utrecht, one of the Netherlands’ largest cities, on Thursday afternoon. “Several buildings collapsed ...

The community leader of Avlona village reported on Thursday another violation of the buffer zone by ‘Turkish farmers’, saying he has alerted both the Cyprus foreign ministry and the United ...

Parliament on Thursday began discussing proposed legislation to curb the sale of real estate to non-Cypriot nationals, with some MPs even calling the matter one of national security. Aristos Damianou, ...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrived at the White House for lunch with Donald Trump on Thursday, a meeting that could affect how the U.S. president seeks to ...

Repeated failures of the Gesy IT system this week have raised concern among healthcare providers, with the president of the pharmaceutical association warning that the state should have had a ...

The start of the year is a place of in-betweens. The festive days are behind us, and the spring celebrations and carnival fiestas are yet to come. Thankfully, there is ...

The formulation of a bilateral agreement between Cyprus and Israel on the management of the Aphrodite-Ishai gas fields “appears to be in the final stages,” the state-run news agency said ...

Britain’s Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch sacked one-time leadership rival Robert Jenrick from her senior policy team and suspended him from the party on Thursday, saying he was plotting ...

The Cyprus Composite Leading Economic Index recorded an annual increase of 2.0 per cent in December 2025, according to the Economics Research Centre of the University of Cyprus. The centre said the ...

Long-term crypto investing tends to reward two things: staying with the assets that attract the deepest liquidity, and spotting the newer projects that can grow into much larger valuations as ...

Europe’s research and innovation ecosystem was placed in the spotlight following an official visit by Poland’s deputy prime minister and minister of digital affairs, Krzysztof Gawkowski, to the ...

Members of the Iranian community in Cyprus have stepped up calls for political action as protests inside Iran intensify, urging the government to take a public stance in support of ...

By a unanimous decision the Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the parliamentary immunity of Disy MP Nikos Sykas, allowing authorities to investigate allegations that he exercised physical violence against his ...

The Cyprus Borrower Protection Association, known as Syprodat, said it remains available to borrowers for information, guidance and support, helping improve understanding of housing credit and seeking sustainable solutions that ...

No VAT will be levied on certain essential consumer items for the duration of the year, the tax department said on Thursday. The government is rolling over into 2026 its policy ...

Nicosia is preparing to welcome SWEETOPIA Chocolate & Candy Fun, a unique, colourful and extremely chocolatey experience, which will be hosted at the Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre. A special event ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had been told that killings in Iran’s crackdown on protests were easing and that he believed there was no current plan for ...

Cyprus ranks 14th in the world in the 2026 Henley passport index, maintaining its position from the previous year according to data released on Thursday. By the latest index, Cypriot citizens ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris met on Thursday with representatives of the firefighters’ union as well as trade union Pasydy president Stratis Mattheou, reaffirming the government’s support of the fire ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Commissioners arrived at the Limassol port on Thursday for a conference marking a key moment in Cyprus’s ...

Euro area households chose to increase their spending at a faster pace than their income grew during the third quarter of 2025, leading to a dip in the region’s overall ...

Few non-Western shows have become as iconic as Death Note. Some 20 years after its release, it has numerous adaptations, from live-action films to spinoffs and video games. It is certainly ...