Archive February 2026

The upcoming informal European Council leaders’ retreat, focusing on competitiveness and the single market, was discussed on Tuesday between Nikos Christodoulides and President of the European Council Antonio Costa. “A ...

Nato has started military planning for an Arctic Sentry mission, a spokesperson for the alliance’s military headquarters Shape said on Tuesday, against a backdrop of tensions between the US ...

Iran is demanding that talks with the US this week be held in Oman not Turkey, and that the scope be narrowed to two-way talks on nuclear issues only, a ...

The US military on Tuesday shot down an Iranian drone that “aggressively” approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, the US military said, in an incident first ...

Housing is a “social right”, without which health, employment and education are seriously affected, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday, pointing out that “the ambitious European Affordable Housing Plan, ...

The US national highway traffic safety administration has issued an urgent warning regarding dangerous airbags of Chinese origin and Cyprus’ road transport department (TOM) on Tuesday called on all importers ...

Trade Minister Michael Damianos on Tuesday called for a stronger European single market with the aim, among other things, of using its benefits to bolster the EU’s defence sector. ...

MPs on Tuesday demanded that the government temporarily suspend charging farmers for using water from boreholes, a move farmers say could deal them the final blow and drive them out ...

February is here and before you know it, colourful, loud and festive carnival parties will take over the island. First to make its appearance is the Carnival Fiesta by the ...

Trade union Isotita has denounced an attack on a Game Fund warden by “criminal elements who set his personal vehicle on fire, completely destroying it”, warning that wardens are being ...

Research conducted by the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics gives hope for the effective treatment of aggressive and resilient forms of cancer, such as that of the pancreas, the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met Greece’s defence minister on Tuesday in Washington DC on the sidelines of a conference organised by a Greek non-profit organisation. The two ministers were ...

The north’s statistics institute on Tuesday announced the population there stood at 489,308, despite mobile communications data suggesting the figure is more than double that. The institute released what it ...

The 64-year-old man who had been in critical condition at Nicosia general hospital after suffering serious head injuries from an accident, died on Tuesday. The accident happened on January 16 at ...

While top cryptocurrencies frequently hit a wall of price resistance, smaller projects with actual utility are beginning to reclaim the spotlight. History shows that the most significant gains happen during ...

Passengers on Cyprus Airways flight CY381 from Paris on Monday were perplexed that the pilot decided to fly to Larnaca with an unaccompanied teddy bear on board. “I cannot understand ...

Members of the House refugees committee on Tuesday called on the government to build more houses in the Larnaca village of Kofinou, with committee chairman and Akel MP Nikos Kettiros ...

Five hundred thousand foot-and-mouth disease vaccines from the European antigen bank will be given to the Turkish Cypriot community to help it fight the disease, the European Commission said on ...

Despite the teething problems, the new district self-government organisations (EOA) have produced significant work during their first 18 months, Nicosia district governor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Tuesday, adding that much is ...

Russia pounded Ukrainian energy facilities with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles on Tuesday, knocking out heating to hundreds of thousands of families in freezing temperatures a day before ...

After losing their home in the Sicilian town of Niscemi in a massive landslide last week, Benedetta Ragusa and Toni Rinnone raced to salvage their pizzeria, retrieving appliances and kitchenware ...

The education ministry on Tuesday released a guide outlining policies, circulars and protocols related to the prevention and response to in-school violence, which has been sent to all schools across ...

At an Indian gourmet food store, Avanti Mehta is organising a blind tasting of drinks sourced from France, Italy and India. No, this isn’t wine, it’s water. Participants ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has handed material to the police to investigate whether Peter Mandelson, Britain’s former U.S. ambassador, leaked market-sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein during ...