Pickup truck collides with stationary car on motorway hard shoulder
A pickup truck collided with a car which was stationary on the hard shoulder of the motorway connecting Larnaca and the island’s east on Monday morning.
According to the ...
Fire breaks out in car near Paphos
A fire broke out in a car in the Paphos district village of Tremithousa during the early hours of Monday morning.
According to the police, the fire broke out at ...
Netanyahu does what he always does: makes minor concessions
“The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn’t.
In the Persian Gulf there is a sort-of ceasefire between the United ...
Today’s weather: Largely clear, clouds possible later
Monday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island, though clouds may gather later in the day, with rain and even the odd storm possible ...
Denmark’s Eriksen collapses again during international match
Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch in a match against Ukraine on Sunday, but was conscious, the Danish Football Federation said in a social media post.
“Christian ...
‘Schmigadoon!’ wins best musical on Broadway’s biggest night
“Schmigadoon!” won the Tony Award for best musical on Sunday, while more socially driven works dominated other top categories, with “Liberation” taking best play, “Ragtime” best musical revival and John ...
Earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes off southern Philippines, 15 feared killed
At least 15 people were feared dead in the southern Philippines on Monday after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the island of Mindanao, triggering tsunami warnings across several countries.
The ...
EU green economy employment continues to grow
Employment in the European Union’s green economy has grown by an average of 6 per cent per year since 2014, reaching 5.8 million full-time equivalents by 2023, according to Eurostat.
The analysis of ...
Hyperscalers tap international markets to fund massive AI infrastructure
From Europe to Japan and Switzerland, huge bond issues by Big Tech companies are proving that smaller markets, often overshadowed by the US, can punch above their weight in the $40 ...
European services sector shows signs of recovery after February decline
Seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.2 per cent in the euro area and by 0.4 per cent in the European Union during March 2026, according to Eurostat.
This modest upturn follows a ...
Cyprus retail trade contracts after steady growth period
Retail trade volume in Cyprus declined by 1 per cent during April 2026, according to seasonally adjusted data from Eurostat.
This downturn represents a reversal for the Cypriot market, which had previously ...
Rapid spread of stablecoins could reverse dollar’s global decline
The increased use of stablecoins could reinforce the dollar’s global dominance, undermine some nations’ ability to set monetary policy and even diminish the role of the euro, according to ...
Cyprus: an island encircled by breakwaters
If you have been to Governor’s beach over the past year, you may have wondered about the large tetrahedron-shaped blocks that have been piled up further up on the ...
Iran and Israel say they have halted strikes on each other for now
Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting'”, though Tehran said ...
Zverev fights off Cobolli for maiden Grand Slam title at French Open
Alexander Zverev finally shattered the barrier between himself and Grand Slam glory by grinding down a stubborn Flavio Cobolli 6-1 4-6 6-4 6-7(5) 6-1 in the French Open final on ...
Antonelli stays cool to win chaotic Monaco Grand Prix
Formula One championship leader Kimi Antonelli stayed ice-cool to win a chaotic Monaco Grand Prix and extend his run of victories this season to five on Sunday.
The 19-year-old Italian ...
Ukraine says Russian drone struck nuclear-fuel storage facility near Chernobyl
A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
In separate statements, Kyiv’s General Staff and ...
State lab confirms chicken à la crème was behind wedding mass food poisoning
The state laboratory on Sunday confirmed that an incident which saw more than 70 people develop symptoms of food poisoning and 21 people hospitalised was caused by salmonella bacteria found in a ...
Edek refuses to accept leader’s resignation
Edek on Sunday refused to accept party leader Nikos Anastasiou’s resignation after he had attempted to leave the post in light of the party losing all its seats at ...
An abundance of flowers greets the summer
When we came to live in Cyprus 26 years ago now, water was rationed to two days a week on our road. However, the house we later bought had a well ...
Four terror suspects have remands renewed
Four men who stand accused of terror-related offences were all handed renewed remands by the Larnaca district court during behind-closed-doors hearings on Sunday.
Two of the four, aged 38 years old ...
Beyond rhetoric: the remaking of the Eastern Mediterranean
The sharp exchanges between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu are real. The language is harsh. At times, extreme.
It is tempting to dismiss them as political posturing aimed at ...
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A week of Chinese films coming to Cyprus
Chinese films will be screened in Nicosia and Limassol this June as the Embassy of China in Cyprus, the China Film Administration, and the deputy ministry of culture jointly present ...
Concerted push to save Nicosia’s modernist architecture
A new exhibition entitled Modern Nicosia to celebrate the city’s often unappreciated modernist architecture is on display at Mayor Lellos Demetriadou Square (former Municipal Market agora) in the centre ...