Archive 2026

The 28-year-old Azerbaijani man and his 27-year-old Estonian partner who were arrested over terrorism allegations in Cyprus have been deported to Estonia, local media reported on Friday. The pair had ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the U.S. wants to “divide Europe” and doesn’t “like the European Union” in an interview published by the Financial Times ...

The European Commissioner for animal health and welfare, Oliver Varhelyi, is visiting the island on Friday to assess the current foot and mouth outbreak and how Cyprus is handling it. ...

The working week is coming to an end with slightly cloudy weather and temperatures remaining mild, reaching up to 21 degrees Celsius inland and on the coast and 11 degrees in the ...

Two workers were seriously injured after they fell off a two-metre-high scaffolding in Paralimni, police said on Friday. “Two people aged 64 and 56, while they were on scaffolding approximately two metres ...

The United States issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea, in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States stood to make significant money from oil prices driven higher by the war with Iran, prompting criticism from some lawmakers who ...

A convicted Islamic State supporter opened fire in a Virginia university classroom, killing one person and injuring two others before he was killed, while in Michigan a Lebanon-born U.S. ...

For the moment, Cyprus does not face a problem in relation to its fuel stocks amid the Persian Gulf energy crunch, the Cyprus Mail has learned. “Right now we are ...

The Bank of England will cut interest rates to 3.50 per cent either in April or June, according to economists polled by Reuters who have largely abandoned calls for a March 19 ...

President Donald Trump derided Iran’s leaders as “deranged scumbags” and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) on Thursday said that Cyprus remains a safe and reliable destination for international investment, business activity and quality tourism, following a meeting of its ...

Limassol’s Kourion municipality is pushing for the creation of a marine aquarium and Mediterranean marine life research centre on the western side of the Akrotiri municipal district, a project ...

The European Union must adopt a long-term and targeted institutional framework for the resilience of coastal areas to replace the current approach of short-term project implementation, Cyprus Marine and Maritime ...

International banks signalled strong confidence in the Greek banking sector’s outlook for 2026, highlighting resilient credit expansion, solid asset quality and growing investor demand. This follows meetings with major lenders ...

Students from the technical school of Nicosia took part in a practical dry stone building workshop in the gardens of the presidential palace on Thursday, an initiative aimed at strengthening ...

There was outrage when the government announced, shortly after the drone strike on Akrotiri base that civil defence shelters were enough for about 45 per cent of the population. The conclusion ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday issued a veiled threat to kill Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei even as he acknowledged that Israel’s joint air war with ...

Israel’s military on Thursday dropped charges against five soldiers accused of torturing a Palestinian detained during the Gaza war, in a case that exposed divisions within Israel over whether ...

Hungary returned two seized armoured bank vehicles to Ukraine on Thursday but withheld cash and gold worth approximately $82 million, citing an investigation into alleged money laundering, a move Kyiv has ...

The unauthorised publication of ‘deepfakes’ is now a criminal offence, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. A deepfake is synthetic media – images, video, or audio – created using advanced ...

The House on Thursday passed a law extending to the end of March the deadline for payment of road tax, citing glitches with online payments on the website of the ...

The nationwide association for children with cancer and related conditions One Dream One Wish is organising its 26th annual “Route of Love” motorcycle ride from March 11 to 15, 2026, according to a ...

The suspect in an episode of gun violence on Thursday at a Detroit-area synagogue was shot dead, according to a law enforcement official, with no other casualties from the incident ...