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The development of the Larnaca marina and port will be split into two separate projects, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday, referring to works estimated to cost up to €30 ...

Porsche cars are known worldwide for being the epitome of prestige and dependability. These vehicles are popular among people with an excellent sense of style and the ability to match. ...

Over €41 million was paid in 2023 to private hospitals for treating patients referred through the national health scheme (Gesy), with one medical establishment in Cyprus receiving over €6 million. According to information ...

Turkish Cypriots “cannot be linobambaki”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking on the 453rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, he described August ...

Signs of a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on one side and the United States, Germany and Slovenia on the other, multiplied on Thursday but there was no ...

Andreas Angelides, lawyer and former Diko MP, died on Thursday. His funeral will be held on August 2 at the church of God’s Wisdom in Strovolos, at 4.30pm. Angelides was ...

Two persons were placed under arrest on Thursday in connection with the gruesome discovery of two charred bodies in a car in Limassol, while authorities also identified and named one ...

Larnaca and Paphos airports saw a 4.5 per cent rise in passenger numbers in the first seven months of 2024, compared to last year, according to Maria Kouroupi, Director of Aviation Development ...

Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people from their ...

Costas Antoniou, 45, accused of shooting dead 52-year-old Charalambos Constantinides on June 25 in Ormidia, did not admit to premeditated murder in court on Thursday. Antoniou has already confessed to the murder ...

The Bank of England cut interest rates from a 16-year high on Thursday after a narrow vote in favour from policymakers divided over whether inflation pressures had eased sufficiently. Governor ...

Steve McClaren was hired as head coach of Jamaica’s men’s national soccer team on Wednesday, the Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) said. The former England national team and Premier ...

A Lufthansa flight from Munich to Tel Aviv landed in Larnaca, Cyprus, Israeli press reports said on Thursday. Times of Israel said the airline told Channel 12 that the plane landed ...

A total of 43 per cent of Cypriots believe the rise of Elam is “dangerous for democracy” while 58 per cent said there was a need for new parties, according to a ...

The head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israeli military said on Thursday, a day after the group’s ...

The ‘goat plague’ killing off sheep and goats in Greece and Romania is not affecting Cyprus’ small ruminants, however neither the island nor the EU as a whole are turning ...

Eurobank announced on Wednesday evening that it had successfully completed its mandatory public offer to acquire up to 100 per cent of the issued share capital of Hellenic Bank. This resulted ...

A European arrest warrant has been issued for the mother of a three-month-old infant who died in horrific conditions, infested with insect bites and severely malnourished. Police confirmed on Thursday ...

Eurobank this week posted an adjusted net profit of €732 million for the first half of 2024, an increase of 22.2 per cent year-on-year, while reported net profit stood at €721 million. In addition, ...

The Customs Department made seven big busts in July, confiscating duty free tobacco products, mainly brought illegally from the north to the south, with the biggest haul being 4,082 cartons of 200 ...

Simone Biles will be chasing a sixth Olympic gold medal and her second of the Paris Olympics when she competes in the women’s gymnastics all-around final on Thursday in ...

A 59-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after being spotted by an off-duty police officer holding a stolen gallery gun while walking around a residential area. The man, ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition politicians reacted furiously after TMT veterans were invited by ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore to meet inside the ‘parliament’s’ chamber on Wednesday ahead of the 66th anniversary ...

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in Nicosia on suspicion of having robbed three bakeries. The first robbery took place at 11pm, with the man entering a bakery with ...