Archive 2026

Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA’s Artemis II mission, a high-stakes voyage around the moon that marks the United States’ boldest step yet toward returning ...

Cyprus recorded a decline in unemployment in February 2026, even as joblessness in the euro area rose slightly month-on-month, according to a report from Eurostat. Specifically, the figures showed that Cyprus ...

The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) is reshaping Europe’s crypto market, while exposing new regulatory challenges, according to Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) chairman George Theocharides. In an ...

Thick fog in Troodos and falling rocks have made driving dangerous in the mountains. The police are urging drivers to be extremely careful and keep a safe distance from the ...

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck in Indonesia’s Northern Molucca Sea on Thursday, killing one person, damaging buildings and triggering tsunami waves, authorities and witnesses said, though monitoring agencies said the ...

Hopes for a swift end to the Middle East war faded on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed more aggressive strikes on Iran, disappointing investors hoping for clearer ...

Greek lender Alpha Bank has announced a sweeping transformation of its retail banking operations, introducing a new organisational model aimed at placing the customer at the centre of banking services. ...

The University of Nicosia announced this week that it will host a student event titled “Become a Merchant Navy Officer for a Day” at the BSM Maritime Training Centre at ...

A bomb exploded outside a house in Dherynia at 1.30am on Thursday, damaging the garage door. The house belongs to a 49-year-old. Police investigations are ongoing.

Storm Erminio, the low-pressure barometric system that moved from Sicily towards the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing heavy rainfall and high concentrations of Saharan dust to Cyprus, will begin subsiding on Thursday, ...

The economy of the Famagusta district is coming under growing strain from the fallout of developments in the Middle East, with Paralimni-Deryneia mayor Giorgos Nikolettos warning that the new tourist ...

Index provider MSCI has confirmed that Greece will return to its developed markets index in May 2027, marking a key milestone in the country’s long recovery from its sovereign debt ...

April is here with more exciting events for all ages and interests! This weekend’s agenda has something fun in store around the island – in the city and in the ...

Francois-Louis Michaud will take up his position as chair of the European Banking Authority on April 16, 2026, following his formal appointment by the Council of the European Union earlier this week. “...

International airfreight rates surged by as much as 95 per cent between February and March, as reduced cargo capacity and higher fuel prices linked to the Iran war pushed prices closer ...

Israel’s ambassador to Cyprus, Oren Anolik, has asserted that while Iran’s nuclear and ballistic capabilities have been significantly degraded by US-Israeli strikes they have not been entirely eliminated, ...

How predictable that the two hoteliers’ organisations, Pasyxe and Stek, are not satisfied with the support measures announced by the government last week and want more. Last Thursday, the president ...

New registrations of Tesla TSLA.O cars tripled in France during March to just shy of a two-year-old record high, and more than doubled in the Nordic countries, data showed ...

Ryanair RYA.I CEO ​Michael O’Leary said jet fuel supply to Europe could be disrupted from June if the Middle East conflict does not end in the next month, ...

Vaccine makers Pfizer PFE.N and BioNTech 22UAy.DE halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia had responded to Ukraine’s proposed Easter ceasefire by launching more strikes against his country’s energy infrastructure. “Russia responds with ‘Shaheds’ (...

Italian senators have proposed a plan to incentivise fishing companies that donate discarded nets to help shield Ukraine from Russian drone attacks, a document showed on Wednesday. Ukraine has this ...

Ecuador’s government said on Wednesday that intentional homicides fell 28% nationwide in March, attributing the decline to military operations carried out during a two-week nightly curfew in four provinces. President ...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday delayed by a few weeks the federal trial of Luigi Mangione on charges stemming from the killing of a health insurance executive in Manhattan, ...