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The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Keve) on Thursday released a statement congratulating Thomas Kazakos, the director general of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC), on his appointment as secretary-general ...

The north’s religious affairs director Ahmet Unsal was sacked on Thursday. The news was confirmed by ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel, who told news website Gundem Kibris that Unsal will ...

Shots were fired at an apartment block in the northern Nicosia suburb of Omorphita, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Thursday. They said the shots had been fired at around 4.35...

Turkish Cypriot journalist Vatan Mehmet was on Thursday arrested after having allegedly “illegally recorded” a conversation with the north’s public broadcaster BRT’s director Meryem Cavusoglu Ozkurt. News website ...

Consulting and advisory firm PwC Cyprus on Thursday announced that it has published its new tax guide for 2025. “The guide serves as an important source of information on all tax-related ...

The transport ministry urged drivers to renew their road tax between January 7 and March 11 this year to avoid penalties. Renewals for the road tax will commence on Tuesday, 7 January 2025, and ...

With an incredible 14,250% ROI in 2021, Polygon (POL) shot to $2.92 and set a standard for an Ethereum-based altcoin, Rexas Finance (RXS). Priced at just $0.175 in its presale as of writing, Rexas ...

The consumer price index (CPI) in Cyprus closed 2024 with a year-on-year increase of 1.8 per cent, while inflation saw a rise in December, according to a report from the state’s ...

A 56-year-old woman driving under the influence slightly injured an officer while attempting to evade arrest on New Year’s Day. The incident occurred at around 7pm on Larnaca avenue ...

Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in World War Two, died at the ...

The Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) has issued a call for applications for its members to participate in a business conference and B2B meetings set to take place ...

The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows “will be removed within January”, Migration Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides ...

Greece on Wednesday formally took its seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, with the country’s foreign minister Giorgos Gerapetritis promising that it would use ...

A gunman who killed at least 10 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro died from self-inflicted injuries on Thursday after attempting suicide, the country’s interior minister, ...

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the easyGroup and the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, on Thursday announced the launch of the 15th annual Stelios Bicommunal Business Cooperation Awards. This year, the initiative ...

Grigor Dimitrov stayed on course for his title defence but women’s second seed Emma Navarro was stunned by local favourite Kimberly Birrell at the Brisbane International on Wednesday. Two-time ...

Ipswich Town put a dent in Chelsea’s Premier League title hopes with a 2-0 win at Portman Road on Monday, but the west London side’s head coach Enzo ...

Paphos police arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of the illegal possession of property, burglary tools, and possession and transportation of an offensive weapon. Around 6pm on Wednesday police officers ...

The utilisation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) brought onshore at Vasiliko could reduce electricity bills by as much as 35 or 40 per cent, energy expert Dr Charles Ellinas said on Thursday. ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual ...

A 31-year-old man living in an abandoned apartment in Larnaca was hospitalised on New Year’s Day after being assaulted and injured with a sharp object. Investigations started when police, ...

Suspected people smugglers will face severe curbs under new laws in Britain, the government said on Thursday, as it steps up efforts to fight illegal migration and strengthen border security. ...

By Michael Georgy and Tala Ramadan The radical Islamic State group, which once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, has been implicated in ...

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families in the southern Gaza strip early on Thursday, medics said. The 10 people, including women and children, ...