Archive 2026

King Charles will not live at Buckingham Palace after its 10-year refurbishment finishes next year, royal officials said on Thursday, ending nearly two centuries of the London landmark serving as ...

Cyprus has begun using an advanced DNA testing method to identify the remains of Greek Cypriot soldiers and civilians who went missing during the Turkish invasion of 1974 after conventional techniques ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Friday hailed the striking of an agreement among the European Union’s member states on a mechanism to monitor and evaluate the bloc’s next ...

The Nicosia district court ruled on Friday to admit hearsay testimony in the criminal proceedings concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou in 2019, paving the way for evidence from his ...

A 38-year-old Paphos resident was remanded for eight days by the Paphos district court on Friday, one day after the suspect was arrested for the importation of dried poppy pods. ...

The Limassol municipality on Wednesday received the beach-cleaning machine Beach Tech 5500. The three-wheel device has a loading volume of 1.3 cubic metres and is set to assist the local authority in ...

A quarter of a century ago, Esperidon street – the road the Deliyard eatery now calls home – was something of an anomaly in central Nicosia. Flanked on both sides by busy ...

Friday’s opening of a new exhibition at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) has drawn political criticism after the Ecologists objected to the participation of Turkish Cypriot artist Emin ...

The forestry department on Friday said that a total of 75 safety ramps will be installed in artificial lakes across the island to help animals enter and exit the waters safely. “...

Cyprus closed the final major event of its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union on Thursday with a call for islands and coastal communities to be recognised ...

Health authorities across Europe were on high alert on Friday as a killer heatwave progressed across the continent, prompting alcohol bans and the cancellation of mass gatherings in France, and ...

Tehran reasserted its right on Friday to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and warned Gulf states against siding with the U.S., a day after an attack on ...

Ireland’s Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers, pledged on Thursday that Ireland’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the European Union would ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in a pair of new rulings has further expanded the Constitution’s Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms,” as the justices consider whether ...

The government will extend reduced fuel excise duties until September 17 at an estimated cost of €15.5 million after agreeing to prolong the measure beyond its original August deadline. As announced by ...

Construction material producer Kythreotis Holdings has warned that its results for the first half of 2026 are expected to be significantly lower than those recorded in the same period last year, ...

Former European commissioner Androulla Vassiliou on Friday warned against the continued publishing of speculation regarding the contents of ongoing talks aimed at resuming negotiations in earnest on the Cyprus problem. “...

European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans Costas Kadis on Friday presented the European Union’s first-ever strategy dedicated to coastal communities, describing it as a landmark initiative designed to strengthen ...

The Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and Eurobank are well positioned to benefit from a renewed re-rating of Hellenic banking stocks, according to Cyprus-based investment firm Roemer Capital, with the company ...

The European Union’s new strategy for islands is only a starting point and must now be turned into practical policies that respond to the daily realities of island communities, ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) announced on Friday that Interfund Investments Plc shares will be moved from the surveillance market back to the alternative market. This shift comes as the ...

SquareOne has launched Zoia, a 147-apartment residential project in Kato Polemidia, placing its bet on one of Limassol’s most rapidly changing pockets, where an old military site is being ...

Ukraine struck a chemical plant in Russia’s Tula region for the second time in two weeks as part of a massive wave of overnight drone attacks, according to Russian ...

Cyprus will begin testing artificial intelligence cameras designed to detect motorists using mobile phones at the wheel, as the government steps up efforts to reduce fatal traffic accidents linked to ...