Archive 2026

Kyiv residents and foreign embassies are shrugging off Moscow’s threat of a wave of heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital as nothing new after years of war, displaying a ...

Israel pounded Lebanon with more than 120 air strikes on Tuesday in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, Lebanese security sources said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

The government will cooperate with all political parties where there is alignment on its policy agenda, Director of the president’s press office Victor Papadopoulos said on Tuesday, following the ...

Almost half the electorate will not be represented in the new parliament, having either abstained or voted for parties that failed to gain a seat in the legislature, an analyst ...

Luis de la Fuente stressed that Spain’s badge outranks any club crest on Tuesday after naming a World Cup squad with a distinctly Barcelona hue and, for the first ...

Former European commissioner Androulla Vassiliou on Tuesday accused social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou of dishonesty after he decided not to take the seat in parliament to which he had been ...

Naomi Osaka turned heads with another sparkling Grand Slam fashion statement on Tuesday and the former world number one matched it with striking tennis to dismantle unseeded German Laura Siegemund 6...

NATO will strengthen the defence of its eastern flank with a new structure that would facilitate the rapid deployment of forces in Latvia and Estonia in the event of a ...

Allegations against deputy chief Panikos Stavrou resurfaced on Tuesday after social media personality Ioanna Fotiou, known online as Annie Alexui, published references to a decade-old case and claimed she possesses ...

The Bank of Cyprus Public Company Limited has decided to exercise its legal right for the early redemption of its outstanding senior preferred notes totalling €300 million. The parent entity, Bank ...

Europe needs a modern regulatory framework for space that inspires confidence among operators, investors and citizens, Deputy Research Minister Nikodemos Damianou said on Tuesday at the opening of the high-level ...

Electricity prices in the north are to increase by 22 per cent from next Monday, the Turkish Cypriot electricity authority Kib-Tek announced on Tuesday. For residential properties paying the flat-rate tariff, ...

Cypriots have strong entrepreneurial perceptions and intentions but have to contend with structural challenges which ultimately limit the creation of new businesses, according to the 9th national entrepreneurship report for ...

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday by the Paphos permanent criminal court after being found guilty in an attempted murder case linked to an attack ...

In India’s western state of Maharashtra, mango farmer Komal Walke is scrambling to meet orders from India’s online grocers after her family’s three acres of orchards produced ...

Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognisable may not survive by century’s end as climate change becomes an increasingly important driver of species loss, according to scientists, ...

A US company said more than two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform it has developed in what it calls a pivotal step in its ...

Archimandrite Gregorios Ioannides was on Tuesday selected as the new bishop of Paphos by the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus. The vote came after the Holy Synod earlier ...

Customs officers seized large amounts of undeclared cash and cheques at the Ayios Dometios crossing point, the customs department said on Tuesday. Customs officers carried out routine checks under the ...

Nearly €200,000 in undeclared cash was seized from a Ukrainian passenger at Paphos airport by customs officers after the money was discovered hidden inside socks in his luggage. The customs department ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, arrived on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical ​Center for his annual physical, following a year of public attention on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman issued strong criticism of Israel and regional security developments on Tuesday, saying he does not trust “any government that kills children” while lambasting the Republic’...

Local government reform moved forward on Tuesday with the signing of a memorandum establishing new unified plans for municipalities towards modernising and standardising public sector roles. Following the agreement’s ...

Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) president George Pantelides met with British High Commissioner to Cyprus Michael Tatham on Monday, in order to discuss the strengthening of economic and trade ...