Archive 2026

Decisions on livestock farming must be guided by a clear strategic plan to save the primary sector, president of the Larnaca district self-government organisation (EOA) said on Friday. Angelos Hadjicharalambous ...

The “security threat” which was declared at the United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base was declared to have passed shortly before 10.15am. Sirens had sounded shortly before 10am, with ...

Back for the third year is the Cyprus International Theatre Festival, and its productions and parallel actions are already filling Limassol’s cultural agenda. This week and weekend, performers from ...

Cyprus is a nation of excess. So much of what we do is too much, too many, too far. We overfill our fridges, and cover our tables with food. There ...

Cyprus-born entrepreneur Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, through the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, is launching a €10 million initiative to strengthen public healthcare on Greece’s small islands, aiming to support the retention of 80 ...

Gender equality is “not only a fundamental human rights principle, it is an essential foundation for peace, reconciliation and a sustainable future in Cyprus”, the technical committee on gender equality ...

The British foreign office has updated its warning for Cyprus, valid on Friday, that “terrorist attacks in Cyprus cannot not be ruled out”. “Regional escalation poses significant security risks and ...

The attacks in Cyprus were aimed exclusively at the British bases, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday evening, expressing frustration over remarks made earlier in the day by British Defence ...

Cyprus recorded a decline in retail trade volume in January 2026, even as the European Union overall registered a modest increase, according to Eurostat. According to the data, Cyprus retail trade ...

U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday ...

Israel pounded Beirut on Friday after ordering an unprecedented evacuation of the entire southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a major expansion of the war against Iran it began a ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5 km (3.11 miles) of the border between the countries in a message posted on its Telegram channel in Hebrew early on ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) issued a circular this week to inform members about significant changes to the European Union VAT regime that have already come into ...

Two fires were reported overnight in Nicosia. At around midnight, the police were notified of a fire in a house in Yeri, property of a 33-year-old man. The house was ...

Thirty-nine flights have been cancelled on Friday to and from Larnaca airport, amid the Middle East crisis. According to airport data, the flights affected are 22 arrivals and 17 departures, to and ...

Property sales in Cyprus maintained a double-digit increase in February 2026, as transactions rose by 12 per cent year on year, according to data released by the department of lands and surveys. ...

Friday starts off mainly fine, with clouds forming from noon onwards, bringing rain and possibly isolated thunderstorms. Winds will be a variable gentle breeze of 3 Beaufort, turning into a southwest ...

Cyprus recorded a 4.9 per cent increase in its industrial turnover index during December 2025 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the latest figures released by the Cyprus ...

British employers’ expectations for wage growth held at their ​joint-lowest in nearly four years in February, according ‌to a survey published by the Bank of England, which is looking out ...

Claims that 56 nuclear weapons are stored at RAF Akrotiri are not supported by available evidence, according to an analysis published by Fact Check Cyprus, which says satellite imagery, Nato security ...

What a relief that reason prevailed at the House education committee on Wednesday and the discriminatory bill that would have made passing a Greek language exam a requirement for attending ...

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday night confirmed that his country’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus had been used as the launchpad for missions aimed at ...

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the right to join Iran in deciding its next leader as the war escalated on Thursday, with U.S. and Israeli jets hitting areas ...

Demonstrators gathered outside the presidential palace and the foreign ministry on Thursday afternoon, demanding that Cyprus cease any and all cooperation with nations either directly engaged in or supporting the ...