Archive April 2026

When does social-media rage turn into hate speech? Is Eoka a terrorist organisation? Should it be legal to blame Nato expansion for the war in Ukraine? And who gets to ...

The tragedy of missing persons in Cyprus is one of the island’s deepest and most enduring wounds. It is also one of the few areas where meaningful bicommunal cooperation ...

The shooting of a Secret Service agent on Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has raised fresh concerns about the security of America’s political leadership amid ...

Israeli military attacks killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials in the enclave said. Medics said an airstrike carried out by Israel’s forces ...

A woman was rescued after becoming trapped in a vehicle following a traffic accident early on Sunday in Moniatis. The incident occurred shortly before 1am when emergency services were called ...

Police confirmed on Sunday that 12 people were arrested during a series of coordinated overnight operations nationwide. The arrests were made for a range of offences including attempted arson, assault causing ...

Cyprus will see unsettled weather on Sunday with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms expected across parts of the island, while light dust in the atmosphere is forecast to gradually clear ...

April 24 is not simply a date. It marks a beginning and a warning.  In 1915, in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in ...

When Tesla released its annual report for US regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025. ...

There is very bad turbulence all around Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean that calls for wise leadership all round to steer Cyprus in a safe direction. Switzerland managed to stay ...

Chelsea interim coach Calum McFarlane said the team was not dwelling on the firing of previous manager Liam Rosenior, and instead focusing on beating Leeds United this weekend to reach ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting April 20: State Aid Commissioner Stella Michaelidou has approved a state grant to Plug and Play Cyprus Innovation Centre ...

You smile without thinking. At the bakery. In the lift. Passing a friend on the pavement. It’s automatic. Polite. Reflexive. And in Cyprus, it’s part of our culture. ...

Hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran receded as a new week began, with talks aimed at ending the two-month conflict at a standstill ...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by Secret Service agents on Saturday night after a man opened fire ...

ALTHOUGH, we are still a month away from the parliamentary elections, wherever you look in Nicosia’s streets there are billboards, with the photoshopped faces of candidates, after our vote. ...

Visa Hellas country manager Nikos Petrakis recently highlighted the growing shift towards invisible payments, as well as how technology is reshaping everyday transactions. Speaking to Athens-Macedonian News Agency (APE-MPE), Petrakis ...

The government staged an impressively well-organised and smoothly-run informal EU summit on Thursday and Friday. It was unaffected by protesting farmers at the Rizoelia roundabout who had threatened to block ...

If a hit to household finances is what dictates the economic impact of this oil shock, then European households have more savings insulation than their US counterparts, tempering a narrative ...

Britain’s employers showed signs ​of caution in March after the start of the Iran warwith a measure of hiring falling during the month and the lowest number of ‌job ...

Anthropic plans to provide access to its Mythos AI model to European banks soon, three people familiar with the matter said, as global banks scramble to test the technology after ...

When President Nikos Christodoulides announced last week that Cyprus is poised to implement a social media ban for children under 15, he blithely mentioned that the age verification system would be ...

Tottenham Hotspur’s Joao Palhinha scored eight minutes from time as his side claimed a first Premier League victory in 16 games with a 1-0 win against relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers at ...

Bayern Munich fought back from three goals down to clinch a 4-3 win over Mainz 05 on Saturday as substitutes Harry Kane and Michael Olise led a second-half comeback for the ...