Archive January 2026

Nicosia mayors from both sides of the divide have called for the revival of the bicommunal peace education initiative Imagine. A recent event by the Association for Historical Dialogue and ...

Director of the president’s office Charalambous Charalambous announced his resignation on Monday, bowing to calls to step down by almost all the political parties including those participating in government. ...

Video footage emerged on social media on Monday, showing four men, reportedly employees of the Chlokaras community council, kicking and throwing a sea turtle on a local beach. According to ...

Apple AAPL.O will use Google’s Gemini models for its revamped Siri coming later this year under a multi-year deal that deepens the tech giants’ alliance in the artificial ...

The Venezuelan man shot by a border patrol agent last week in Portland, Oregon, was charged on Monday with assaulting federal officers, the U.S. Justice Department said. The department ...

Britain’s media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its ...

The College of Commissioners of the European Union will pay an official visit to Cyprus on January, 15 and 16 in the context of its contacts with the Government of the Republic ...

The rain that struck the island in the last three days totalled 22.4 millimetres per square metre, bringing this month’s rainfall to 31 per cent of the usual monthly average by ...

Gambia on Monday told judges at the United Nations’ top court that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare in a landmark case accusing ...

Two China-flagged supertankers that were sailing to Venezuela to pick up debt-paying crude cargoes amid the US oil embargo on the OPEC country have made u-turn and are now heading ...

A 48-year-old and a 21-year-old were on Monday arrested pursuant to court warrants in connection with two separate cases of burglary and theft in Larnaca and Nicosia. The first case, ...

A joint English-language Bachelor’s and Master’s programme in product design engineering will be offered by Neapolis University Paphos and the University of Western Macedonia, starting from the academic ...

Morocco’s seven-year drought has come to an end after abundant rainfall this winter, Water Minister Nizar Baraka said on Monday. Rainfall levels so far this winter are up 95% from ...

The resignation of President Nikos Christodoulides’ chief of staff and brother-in-law, Charalambos Charalambous, was a necessary response to the video accusing him and others of corruption, Disy president Annita Demetriou ...

Reports of domestic violence outnumber those of previous years More than 3,000 incidents of domestic violence were reported to the police in 2025, marking an increase to previous years, the police’s ...

The surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cyprus may be transient, and could swing the other way as many foreign businesses setting up shop here do not have ‘organic’ ...

Indonesia’s defence minister met Pakistan’s air force chief in Islamabad to discuss a potential deal that includes the sale of combat jets and killer drones to Jakarta, three ...

Mid-January, and yes, that’s next week already, brings two classical music evenings to Limassol and Nicosia. Behind them is, of course, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, which welcomes two internationally-acclaimed ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday held a telephone conversation with European Union foreign affairs and security policy chief and commission vice president Kaja Kallas. A post on the ministry’...

Coach Xabi Alonso has left Real Madrid by mutual agreement a day after their 3-2 defeat by bitter rivals Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup, the LaLiga club said on ...

Crypto markets have a simple habit: when a well-known token jumps on clear product news, traders immediately start scanning for the next project that could reprice the same way—only ...

La Petite Maison (LPM) Limassol is delighted to announce the introduction of Friday Lunch, starting Friday, January 16, 2026, responding to growing guest demand and the rise of Limassol as a vibrant ...

An increase in the overall number electric registered was seen in 2025, data released by the statistical service showed on Monday, with registrations of hybrid vehicles up 7.2 per cent and the ...

In this day and age, where everything is happening simultaneously and a thousand different things demand our attention every day, how would you like to have a space just for ...