Archive 2026

Ellinas Finance Public Company Limited on Thursday submitted its annual remuneration report for 2025, outlining total compensation for board members and senior executives. The report was prepared by the company’s ...

Israel plans to sue The New York Times and one of its journalists for defamation over an article that said Israeli soldiers, prison guards and settlers had used widespread sexual ...

Cyprus has significantly strengthened surveillance along the Green Line with modern monitoring systems, while much of the barbed wire previously installed along the buffer zone has now been removed. Speaking ...

Proceedings against a 22-year-old contract soldier (Syop) defendant accused of the attempted murder of a 47-year-old man in 2025 were scheduled before the Larnaca permanent criminal court on Thursday, with the ...

The installation of smart parking systems began on Thursday in the municipality of Latsia-Yeri as part of the ‘Smart Cyprus’ project. The council will enable drivers to use a mobile ...

Sharp exchanges dominated a televised debate on Thursday between Nikolas Papadopoulos and Odysseas Michaelides, with the leaders of Diko and Alma confronting each other over corruption allegations, the Pentakomo case, ...

A 45-year-old police officer was among three people arrested on Thursday as part of two operations in Limassol targeting organised crime, with authorities freezing assets worth more than €420,000. Police said ...

By Antonio Tajani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Since the outbreak of the war between Iran and the United States, Italy has acted together with its European partners, the ...

A Green party candidate withdrew from the parliamentary elections on Thursday after reporting threats to the police and having been forced to leave his home following a dispute with his ...

Cyprus is intensifying efforts to reduce road deaths among young people, with Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades warning on Thursday that fatalities involving inexperienced drivers and motorcyclists remain a major public ...

Proceedings in the private criminal prosecutions brought by the family of Thanasis Nicolaou against five defendants were postponed on Thursday after Limassol court suspended the hearing to examine an unrelated ...

Madonna and Shakira will line up with K-pop supergroup BTS to headline the first-ever World Cup final halftime show at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA said on Thursday. ...

Lumio Private School is proud to announce it has been authorised as an IB World School, offering the International Baccalaureate® Diploma Programme (IBDP).  As the first school in Paphos to ...

Proceedings in the Pyla torture case were postponed on Thursday by the Larnaca criminal court, with two defendants now expected to enter pleas on May 25 in connection with allegations of ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Thursday reported that interest rates on new housing loans declined in March, while borrowing costs for businesses remained above the euro area average. ...

Questions over the military status of a 24-year-old Cypriot living in South Africa prompted a response from the defence ministry on Thursday after the hunter’s movement claimed the man ...

Successfully creating a viral TikTok video is like winning the lottery. Out of the millions of uploads on the platform, only a handful become intensely popular to create a worldwide ...

With the onset of warmer weather, it is time for some dishes that are not so heavy With the arrival of early summer, many of us start to crave some ...

Labour’s Wes Streeting resigned as health minister on Thursday to call for a leadership contest to oust Keir Starmer, accusing the British prime minister of overseeing political drift and ...

Over 4kg of cannabis has been seized at Larnaca airport during joint operations by the drug squad Ykan and the customs department, police said on Thursday. The shipment, which arrived ...

The University of Nicosia (UNIC), as one of the official partners of “Exercise is Medicine® Cyprus”, actively participated in the programme’s second official local initiative. “Exercise is Medicine®” is ...

A top Philippine politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was no longer taking refuge at the Senate after what his wife called an “escape”, the Senate president said on ...

U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the Iran war with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, while new attacks on vessels near the Strait of Hormuz brought ...

Where do you live and with whom?I live in New York with my wife, Antigone, and my son, Leontios, who is a sophomore in high school. We live in ...