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Limassol district court remanded three young men for eight days following suspicions they robbed a delivery driver last week, the city’s police spokesman Lefteris Kyriacou said on Sunday.  Police ...

A different kind of event is coming up in Paphos this month, one that brings together book enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Author Alice Moustier will host a special presentation of the ...

By Savvakis C Savvides The recent debacle leading to the rush decision on how to proceed with the Larnaca marina project proves, yet again, that we never learn from our ...

Police arrested a 22-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman in connection with two burglaries in Limassol, authorities said on Sunday.  According to the police, this is a case of burglary ...

By Loukis Skaliotis “Maybe the world isn’t ending after all. Or at least, not yet anyway.” The above would be a good summary of US President Biden’s (now ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will have a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart on Monday at the latter’...

For anyone learning Greek in Cyprus, the struggle is real. While mainland modern Greek is taught as a second language to foreigners living on the island and can be used ...

Syria’s new defence minister said on Sunday it would not be right for U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc ...

Larnaca District Court on Sunday remanded a 45-year-old man for eight days, after he was discovered carrying 19 kg of cannabis in his luggage at the airport the day before. According ...

By Euripides Evivriades AI is not a distant challenge; it is already reshaping our economies, democracies and societies. However, the debate remains dominated by a few corporations amassing billions in ...

A truck fire in the early hours of Sunday morning was determined to be arson, police said, following the incident in Astromeritis, Nicosia.  According to police, at 4.30am, information about ...

By Leontios Ierodiakonou Last week’s article ended on a pessimistic note, about six decades having passed since the first hostilities began. Many things have changed – the displacement of a ...

Police arrested a 45-year-old man for money laundering and illegal possession, after they found him with close to €49 thousand during an attempted drug bust, an announcement said on Sunday.  According ...

EU-backed researchers and doctors are pioneering advanced pre-implantation and prenatal genetic testing to improve the chance of healthy pregnancies in at-risk families. By Vittoria D’Alessio The story of Bojana ...

Police arrested a teen, 16, in connection with an attempted murder in Limassol, where three young men were injured in a knife attack, an announcement said on Sunday. The 16-year-old boy ...

Hundreds of supporters of South Korea’s arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, stormed a court building early on Sunday after his detention was extended, smashing windows and breaking inside, an ...

The weather on Sunday will be mostly clear with temperatures set to remain stable and fall later in the week, the met office said.  According to the met office announcement, ...

Fighting in the Gaza Strip halted on Sunday as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas took effect after a brief delay, pausing a 15-month-old war that ...

Southeast Asian nations told Myanmar’s military government on Sunday its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority, urging the junta to ...

So why are the Israelis still bombing Gaza? US foreign minister Anthony Blinken was first on the Gaza ceasefire bandwagon last week. Israel and Hamas are right on the brink ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting January 13: The need for enhanced collaboration between public authorities and private enterprises was emphasised during the recently held ‘...

IF HE WAS not such a union-pandering communist, we could have felt a bit of sympathy for Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou, after he was hung out to dry by Prezniktwo, ...

High government spending and a growing need among big economies – from the United States to Britain and France – to tap bond markets to fund their outlays have shot up the ...

Generative artificial intelligence bellwether OpenAI said this week that it is introducing a beta feature called Tasks to ChatGPT, signaling the company’s foray into the virtual assistant space, competing ...