Archive 2026

New Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior was handed a trip back to his old club Hull City in the FA Cup fourth round draw on Monday while non-league giant-slayers Macclesfield will ...

The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) met this week with Shipping Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanolis in the context of close contacts aimed at coordinating issues that will concern the Cyprus shipping ...

What’s in a memory? Two artists seek to find out as they present a new Nicosia exhibition exploring memory as a living, fragile, and constantly shifting experience. Stephanos Philippou ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday warned President Nikos Christodoulides over what he described as “unfortunate” references to Cyprus’ political parties in statements he made after his chief of staff ...

Cyprus’ tax reform, which took effect on January 1, 2026, is expected to deliver direct financial benefits to taxpayers through revised tax scales, according to the audit office. The office said the ...

Taxi drivers in Larnaca went on strike for four hours on Tuesday morning in protest at what they described as “uncontrolled action by passenger transport applications” in the town, and ...

French farmers drove tractors into Paris on Tuesday for the second time in a week to protest against an EU-Mercosur trade deal they say threatens local agriculture by creating unfair ...

Global smartphone shipments rose 2 per cent year-on-year in 2025, lifted by stronger demand and economic momentum in emerging markets, Counterpoint Research said on Monday. Apple led the market with a 20 per ...

Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will soon join a U.S.-led initiative to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg told ...

United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne is late on Tuesday expected to brief representatives of countries which contribute personnel to the UN’s peacekeeping force on the island (...

President Donald Trump said on Monday any country that does business with Iran will face a tariff rate of 25% on any trade with the U.S., as Washington weighs a ...

Cyprus’ tourism strategy for the new year, the challenges facing the sector and Paphos’ decisive contribution to overall performance were discussed on Monday during a meeting between Deputy Tourism Minister ...

Elon Musk said that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days. “This will ...

 Britain’s jobs market cooled in December but starting salaries for permanent jobs rose at a faster pace, according to a survey of recruiters that will be studied by the ...

Oil prices are likely to drift lower this year as a wave of supply creates a market surplus, although geopolitical risks tied to Russia, Venezuela and Iran will continue to ...

Nicosia mayors from both sides of the divide have called for the revival of the bicommunal peace education initiative Imagine. A recent event by the Association for Historical Dialogue and ...

Director of the president’s office Charalambous Charalambous announced his resignation on Monday, bowing to calls to step down by almost all the political parties including those participating in government. ...

Video footage emerged on social media on Monday, showing four men, reportedly employees of the Chlokaras community council, kicking and throwing a sea turtle on a local beach. According to ...

Apple AAPL.O will use Google’s Gemini models for its revamped Siri coming later this year under a multi-year deal that deepens the tech giants’ alliance in the artificial ...

The Venezuelan man shot by a border patrol agent last week in Portland, Oregon, was charged on Monday with assaulting federal officers, the U.S. Justice Department said. The department ...

Britain’s media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its ...

The College of Commissioners of the European Union will pay an official visit to Cyprus on January, 15 and 16 in the context of its contacts with the Government of the Republic ...

The rain that struck the island in the last three days totalled 22.4 millimetres per square metre, bringing this month’s rainfall to 31 per cent of the usual monthly average by ...

Gambia on Monday told judges at the United Nations’ top court that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare in a landmark case accusing ...