Archive 2026

A 38-year-old man is in a critical condition after his motorcycle collided with a car being driven by a 47-year-old woman in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga, the police ...

Friday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island, with the odd cloud expected to appear in the afternoon, and isolated rain not ruled out ...

Samsung Electronics reported record ​quarterly profit earlier this week, driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it expects a severe supply shortage to deepen next year as clients ...

If you love seafood, the deep blue and local events, “come celebrate the 11th Fish Festival with us,” suggests the municipality of Polis Chrysochous. Highly anticipated, the festival has now ...

Eurostat has reported that seasonally adjusted GDP increased by only 0.1 per cent in both the euro area and the wider EU during the first quarter of 2026. This preliminary flash estimate ...

Visa shares jumped 5 per cent in premarket trading earlier this week as the payments-processing company beat estimates for second-quarter profit and lifted expectations for full-year earnings, buoyed by resilient consumer ...

The Bank of Cyprus (BoC) has released a statement related to its total issued share capital and voting rights, providing shareholders with updated figures for regulatory reporting purposes. The company ...

The Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) and the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (Sev) have signed a memorandum of cooperation, formalising their joint commitment to strengthening entrepreneurship, competitiveness and extroversion ...

Volvo Cars reported this week a smaller-than-expected fall in first-quarter operating profit, but said the ​impact of a pull-back of subsidies and other developments in the ‌United States had been ...

Student housing startup MyStudentFlat has announced a series of new milestones, including a strategic partnership with UNIPLACES, first place at the 6th NBG SEEDS StartUp Bootcamp, and participation in the 2026 ...

Cyprus has fallen to 80th place out of 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index, according to findings published on Thursday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country remains the ...

Cyprus marks Labour Day today with the usual union-organised parades to mark the past struggles of the workers. And although working conditions, pay and living standards have improved dramatically in ...

A vessel carrying grain that Ukraine says was stolen from areas occupied by Russia will not unload in Israel, Ukraine said on Thursday, after Kyiv requested Israel to seize the ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino insisted Iran would play World Cup matches in the United States, as the soccer governing body’s Congress opened on Thursday without the country’s delegation, ...

U.S. passenger air service to Venezuela resumed on Thursday morning after seven years, with an American Airlines AAL.O flight from Miami to Caracas. American is resuming daily service ...

The Dipa (Democratic Alignment) party claimed on Thursday that they are being left out of opinion polls, skewing the surveys published ahead of the parliamentary elections. Loizos Constantinou, advisor to ...

Motorists are skimping at the pump as the fallout of the Iran war keeps petrol prices high, the head of the association of petrol station owners said on Thursday. According ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday said that the opening of a campus of Cyprus’ University of Nicosia in Athens can help to transform his country into a global ...

By Panagiotis Kouzaris How often did you talk openly about money at home while growing up in Cyprus? In my experience, money was rarely discussed calmly in my family. Either ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Thursday dismissed calls led by Akel the investigation into the “spy van affair” to be reopened, instead insinuating that Akel had raised the matter to ...

A new month is almost here and it brings… heat and a rejuvenated cultural agenda! A new wave of events is fast approaching as the calendar moves towards the hotter ...

No protective measures were taken for 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou despite years of warning signs, a criminal investigator told the Nicosia district court on Thursday during proceedings into the boy’s ...

“Common struggle for a common homeland, against wars and exploitation” is the central message of labour union Peo for May Day, as trade unions across Cyprus issued calls for unity, ...

Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Wednesday, as enterprise spending on artificial intelligence delivered the best quarter of reported growth for its cloud unit yet. Shares of ...