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Cyprus-based venture capital firm 33East has invested in Piney, a Cyprus-founded property operations startup that has raised €1.6 million as it expands from Europe into the United States. 33East said Piney’...

It was difficult not to laugh at reports about deputies and officials discussing how they could stop recipients of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from going to casinos! According to ...

Everyone knows Wall Street calls a 20 per cent drop in a major index a bear market. But what do you call it when the index posts big ​gains and losses ...

Greece is among the eurozone economies least exposed to the impact of prolonged high interest rates, despite its heavy public debt burden, according to a report by Morningstar DBRS. The ...

European Union member states produced 34.4 billion litres of beer throughout 2025, according to a report from Eurostat. The output figures represent a slight decline of 0.7 per cent when compared with the ...

The number of British young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) fell below 1 million in the second ​quarter of 2026 after hitting its highest since 2013 in ‌the first three ...

Fifteen new prison guards have been hired and another 14 recruited as the justice ministry seeks to address staffing shortages at the central prisons, where two guards have been assaulted in ...

Children’s school bus fares have been set at €5 per month or €30 for the whole school year, the transport ministry said on Friday night, while also announcing that children belonging ...

The labour ministry on Friday announced that it will be hiring 45 new fixed-term employees to move forward with the implementation of the pension reform, which it hopes to execute at ...

The two bodies which were recovered on Friday from the wreck of a ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia were identified as Serife Ozdemir and Nazmiye Ozbolat, Turkish ...

Ozdemir Berova was on Friday named Turkish Cypriot acting ‘transport minister’, temporarily replacing the dismissed Erhan Arikli, while three top officials from inside the same ‘ministry’ were also relieved of ...

The government is hoping for a political decision to be made on whether it will be able to join Europe’s border-free Schengen zone “as soon as possible”, President Nikos ...

The government is “in talks with energy giants” over the allocation of the rights to research and drill for natural gas in blocks of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which ...

A 25 year old man was arrested in Nicosia over allegations that he defrauded 18 people of more than €500,000 through cryptocurrency investments, police said on Friday. The suspect allegedly took the money ...

A body found in the Paphos state forest is believed to be that of 75-year-old Erato Athanasiou, a resident of Tsakistra who had been missing for 11 days. Media reported on ...

Cyprus will account for a total of €3.5 billion from the European Union’s next multiannual financial framework, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, before announcing that “projects” costing the same ...

A three-day film tribute arrives at Rialto Theatre this September. Titled EXPLICIT, it will take place from September 7 to 9, inviting audiences to revisit and reflect on films that challenged conventions, ...

More than 4,500 people visited the Polis Latsios Maritime and Cultural Museum during its first year of operation, the Municipality of Polis Chrysochous said on Friday. A total of 4,517 visitors passed ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has pledged to strengthen police presence in Limassol, saying new recruits will reinforce bicycle patrols and the police’s rapid response ‘Z’ unit, as concerns over ...

By Alexey Gubarev I started a hosting company in Cyprus in 2005, at a time when “the cloud” was not a market but a promise most businesses did not trust. We ...

The Supreme Court has found that the state failed to properly investigate the disappearance of two men abducted in 1974, ruling that their families suffered violations of their human rights and ...

A Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine’s SBU security service in Kyiv on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, vowing to retaliate as Moscow kept up its constant air ...

Financial rating agency Morningstar DBRS published a commentary this week, highlighting that economic convergence is set to continue across several medium-income European economies. The process will be supported by faster ...

Cyprus is turning to Egypt and India to replenish its construction workforce as employers struggle to replace workers leaving under the government’s Syrian repatriation scheme. Speaking to the Cyprus ...