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Hundreds gathered at Saint Barbara’s in Kaimakli on Friday for the funeral of writer, publisher and restaurateur Vasos Ftochopoulos, who died last week at the age of 76. The congregation ...

President Nikos Christodoulides received a delegation from Olympiacos Piraeus basketball club at the presidential palace on Friday, ahead of the team’s appearance in an international tournament in Nicosia. Olympiacos, ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) has called for a formal and regular dialogue with the government on competitiveness and the wider economy, arguing that Cyprus needs to ...

The government presented a twelve-year plan worth some €610.9 million to rebuild the livestock sector on Friday, following the foot and mouth disease outbreak that led to the culling of more ...

Russian drones pounded central part of the industrial city of Pavlohrad in southeastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing five, as well as striking a petrol station in the capital Kyiv and ...

Philippine firefighters on Friday managed to board a burned-out ferry more than a day after the ship caught fire on its way from Manila to the western province of Palawan, ...

Eurobank on Friday said it is investing about €1 billion between 2025 and 2028 in what it described as the largest technology investment programme in the banking group’s history, as it seeks ...

A police complaint has been filed by 60 parents of children who fell ill after consuming free meals funded by the Indonesian government, a mother representing the complainants said on Friday, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he believes that Edek can return to parliament, after losing all its seats in the legislature at May’s election, as he met the ...

Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras met with Environment Commissioner Elias Myrianthous on Friday for talks covering environmental matters and animal welfare across the district. The discussion touched on solid waste management ...

Cypriot economists have warned that the European Central Bank (ECB) could raise interest rates further if the war in the Middle East continues to worsen, as higher oil prices threaten ...

Cyprus’ gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou has called for investment in care services to be treated as an economic and competitiveness issue, as well as a question of equality, during ...

Cyprus’ state workforce reached 53,080 employees in August 2026, rising by 419 people or 0.8 per cent from 52,661 a year earlier, according to figures released on Friday by the statistical service (Cystat).  The increase ...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Friday reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, potentially tightening their grip on one of ...

The captain of the passenger ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia on August 30 appeared in court in the town alongside eight other suspects – seven members of his crew ...

Five people were killed and 40 others injured after a bus carrying a Dutch tour party flipped over in a remote Alpine region of eastern Switzerland, police said on Thursday. Police ...

Charles Leclerc and Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton said they had cleared the air face-to-face after a clash at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix but there were still no written ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) will remove ProsperTree PLC from the emerging companies market (ECM) from September 14, 2026, following the suspension of trading in the company’s shares. The CSE announced ...

Cypriot businesses working in energy storage, electric mobility and energy technologies are being offered free one-to-one meetings with German companies in Nicosia in October, as part of a business mission ...

Transport Minister Evi Tsolaki on Friday confirmed that the civil aviation department, as well as other state agencies, had received a fax regarding “the existence of a bomb” on an ...

Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos on Friday spoke of “serious staffing problems” at the Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni, describing those shortages as “seriously concerning”. He said that he had ...

Lidl Cyprus, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, empowers students by fostering meaningful balanced nutrition habits. With a vision of forming healthy eating habits and cultivating ...

The Bank of Cyprus (BoC) is bringing its fintech hackathon back to Nicosia from November 27 to 29, inviting developers, startups, professionals and students to build working digital products around finance, artificial ...

Fourteen people were arrested and 188 traffic fines were issued during the police’s overnight operations, the force said on Friday. The arrests included three individuals suspected of burglary and theft, ...