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The social welfare deputy ministry was on Friday handed a €5,000 fine by data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou after it was found that three of the 19 CCTV cameras in operation ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Friday held a telephone conversation with the United Kingdom’s Minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty to discuss ongoing developments in the region, amid ...

The Netherlands has launched operation Orange Shield to protect next week’s Nato summit, deploying combat helicopters, sea patrols, over 10,000 military and police personnel, bomb squads and air defence systems. ...

Qatar held crisis talks this week with energy majors after Israeli strikes on Iran’s huge gas field, which it shares with Qatar, an industry source and a diplomat in ...

Britain’s parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country’s biggest social change in a generation. Three-hundred-and-fourteen lawmakers ...

Larnaca airport has been classed among the best in Europe during the recent general assembly of the Airports Council International Europe (ACI) in Athens, Hermes Airports said on Friday. The ...

Nasdaq-listed Davis Commodities (DTCK) recently announced that it had gotten approval for a $30 million fundraising plan. The company has a strategic plan to invest 15% or $4.5 million of the funds into ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday officially adopted a series of guidelines issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) concerning crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) operating ...

Paphos received two new bin lorries on Friday as part of the municipality’s plan to modernise its fleet and infrastructure in the cleaning sector. According to a statement from ...

Russia and Ukraine completed another round of prisoner exchanges on Friday, officials in both countries said, part of a recent agreement to swap POWs and the bodies of dead soldiers. ...

Inland Revenue announced it had extended the deadline for submission of 2024 tax returns until September 30. Initially the deadline was July 31. The new deadline was approved by the cabinet. The obligation ...

The recent arrests made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north “will not go unanswered”, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said ...

British police arrested six men on suspicion of grievous bodily harm on Friday following reports of an altercation at a location close to the Iranian embassy in London. “Six men ...

Centrist President Nicusor Dan nominated Liberal Party leader Ilie Bolojan as Romania’s prime minister on Friday after weeks of negotiations on forming a coalition government to tackle the largest ...

The Diplomat opens with a bang — literally. Minutes into the two-season series, a British aircraft carrier is bombed off the coast of Iran, killing dozens of sailors and triggering an ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who was removed from office by a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling last September, on Friday told the police that he was relieved of his duties as ...

Google unveiled Stitch this week at I/O 2025, an AI-powered tool that transforms text prompts and image sketches into functional UI designs and frontend code within minutes. Built on Gemini 2.5 ...

The 26th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival continues its rich programme and moves toward its conclusion with two remarkable performances, taking place on June 20 and 22 at the Rialto Theatre. After the ...

Gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the United Nations’ children agency said on Friday. “Children will begin to die of thirst … Just 40 per cent of ...

A large-scale field exercise to deal with a major traffic accident was held by emergency services on Thursday in the Athienou-Avdellerou area in the Larnaca district, authorities announced on Friday. ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday made a slight downward revision to the country’s growth forecast for 2025, adjusting it to 3.1 per cent from 3.2 per cent in March. ...

Turkish Cypriot former MEP candidate Oz Karahan and Greek Cypriot former Sigma TV journalist Giorgos Tattis on Friday both pleaded not guilty to all charges brought against them following their ...

Invest Cyprus on Friday issued a statement welcoming the decision by India’s Drone Destination to establish its European subsidiary in Cyprus. The agency, tasked with driving investment to the ...

The long road home: A hidden journey When you click “Buy Now” on a product from an international site, you may imagine your item making its way directly to your ...