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A private vehicle parked on a pavement outside the owner’s home in Lakatamia, Nicosia was set alight in the early hours of Tuesday resulting in extensive damage, the fire ...

In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated, marking one of the greatest public health triumphs. This achievement demonstrates the power of public health—the science and art of preventing ...

The EU will not accept a two-state solution in Cyprus, European Council President Antonio Costa told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a telephone conversation, about which he then briefed President ...

Talks on Cyprus in Geneva wrap up on Tuesday with bilateral meetings of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres with each delegation, followed by the informal enlarged meeting on the ...

Moody’s has upgraded the credit ratings of three Greek banks—Eurobank, National Bank of Greece (NBG), and Attica Bank—following its recent upgrade of Greece’s sovereign credit rating ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after ...

The warm weather of the past few days will start to subside as of Wednesday, with rain and temperatures lower than the seasonal average. Fine weather with passing clouds is ...

Banks in Cyprus and Greece have announced significantly improved profit distribution policies, reflecting their strengthened profitability over the past three years, according to a report from Stockwatch. Following the release ...

Tourist arrivals in Cyprus recorded a year-on-year increase of 7 per cent in February 2025, with an additional 32,865 visitors arriving on the island during the first two months of the year. This ...

Cyprus’ GDP is expected to grow by 3.2 per cent in 2025, slightly lower than the figure of 3.4 per cent reported for 2024, according to the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). This figure ...

Employment in the broader public sector in Cyprus increased by 1,476 individuals, a rise of 2 per cent, in the fourth quarter of 2024, when compared to the same period in 2023. According to ...

A Cyprus-Greece business forum, which took place in Nicosia this week, focused on the importance of enhancing trade and investment relations between the two countries. According to a statement by ...

Optimism was already building among economists on German and eurozone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key political parties in Germany agreed a historic deal on debt, suggesting ...

Britain’s public finances, strained by growing debt and sluggish growth, face a crucial test this month that investors say could prompt another market shock to an economy that is ...

Aradippou municipality is set to become fully independent from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) after having signed a three-year contract with supplier Bioland Energy following a bidding process. “With ...

Akel deputy Giorgos Koukoumas was under the illusion he had uncovered a major scandal when he announced on a Facebook post that the Cyprus Republic had contributed more than €3 million ...

This week’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem “will go down as the most pointless, least productive summit of all time”, high-profile Turkish Cypriot lawyer Mine Atli said in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides held a one-on-one meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan following the six-party meal which officially kicked off the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in the ...

Teachers and opposition political figures in the north reacted with outrage after the ruling coalition amended regulations regarding schools’ dress codes to allow pupils to wear hijabs from Monday onwards. ...

Greek opposition figures on Monday reacted with fury after the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed as his Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos, who had previously referred to northern ...

Municipalities on Monday called off the measures they had earlier threatened – including halting payments – over the non-approval of their budgets. In a statement, the Union of Municipalities said that just ...

Most parliamentary parties as well as trade unions on Monday welcomed the government’s intention to undo the hiring freeze on permanent jobs in the public sector, with opposition Disy ...

Romanian airline AnimaWings will operate direct flights between Larnaca and Bucharest three times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The announcement was made during a presentation held at Larnaca ...

Christina Skarpari’s exhibition, ‘sympraxis’, opens on March 29, presenting films and photographs created between 2022 and 2025. The exhibition will be held at Sic. Contemporary Culture, a non-profit organisation founded in 2024 by ...