Archive February 2026

Cyprus could face a sea level rise of up to one metre by the end of the century, placing nearly half of the island’s beaches at risk of extinction, ...

It was inevitable that soon after the news about the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease, the search for people to blame would begin. If anything, it took a ...

Cuban forces killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into Cuban waters aboard a Florida-registered speedboat on Wednesday and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the Cuban government ...

Iranian gas supplies have resumed to Iraq with a rate of 7 million cubic feet per day, the spokesperson for the Iraqi electricity ministry said on Wednesday. Iraq reported the halt ...

It is Turkey which “controls things in Cyprus”, Cypriot member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas, of Disy, said on Wednesday, as the parliament’s petitions committee (Peti) discussed the ...

The Turkish Cypriot property management service is investigating a total of 110 contracts signed by the Paphos municipality for the use of abandoned Turkish Cypriot property in the town, according to ...

The amount of water being supplied to the Larnaca district has been reduced, the Larnaca district government said on Wednesday, with the water pressure in the district’s pipes having ...

A 33-year-old man was placed in custody after being accused of setting fire to a vehicle belonging to a 28-year-old woman in Ypsonas in the early hours of Wednesday. Police ...

Patients and people with disabilities will no longer be required to register as lobbyists to meet state officials, chairman of the House legal committee Demetris Demetriou said on Wednesday. He ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump still preferred a diplomatic solution with Iran and that he hoped Iranians took that seriously in their ...

France on Wednesday appointed Christophe Leribault as the new head of the Louvre, bringing in the director of the Palace of Versailles to turn around the world’s most-visited museum ...

Campos Culture and Arts presents its critically-acclaimed theatre performance Toula at ARTos House in Nicosia on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – and with English surtitles on Saturday. The play follows the ...

Stylianos Constantinou, the 15-year-old boy who ended his life by suicide in 2019, “was forced to grow up in this abusive environment from the day he was born”, the Nicosia district ...

Rebuilding Ukraine’s economy will cost an estimated $588 billion over the next decade, the World Bank, United Nations, European Commission and the Ukrainian government said on Monday, a day before ...

Bitcoin is under renewed pressure as accelerating capital outflows and weakening macro conditions raise the risk of a deeper move toward the $55,000 range. Analysts are closely watching the $60,000 level as ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) on Wednesday announced the listing of 50,000 new 13-week Treasury Bills of the Republic of Cyprus, following an auction held on February 20, 2026. The exchange stated that ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Wednesday promised that “no one will be left behind” as the government attempts to combat an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. “The government stands ...

One in three people and more than half of businesses in Cyprus were hit by cyberattacks in the past 12 months, according to two nationwide surveys by the Communications Commissioner and ...

Cheesemakers’ association spokesman Michalis Koullouros on Thursday called for a halt to the culling of farm animals in light of an outbreak of foot a d mouth disease. “We must ...

Russia has accused Ukraine of trying to obtain a nuclear weapon with help from Britain and France, an allegation Kyiv called an absurd lie. A French foreign ministry spokesperson said ...

The data protection authority has formally requested the immediate suspension of Fidias Panayiotou’s agora application, citing non-compliance with the European general data protection regulation (GDPR). Speaking to the Cyprus ...

A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work last year, two-thirds of them killed by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. ...

A total of 10,000 doses of the foot and mouth disease vaccine sent to the Republic by the Turkish Cypriots have been delivered and received, the north’s ‘agriculture ministry’ said ...

Alexandros Jiang, a Cypriot with Chinese heritage, has donated 14 cleaning handcarts to the Paphos municipality to help keep the city clean. The handcarts, worth €1,800 each, were ordered from China and ...