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Indonesia’s recent accession to the Brics coalition highlights the ongoing and ambitious efforts of its member countries to create a rival to the G7, the alliance of the world’...

A 15-year-old was arrested at Limassol’s marina area on Saturday night after he was spotted boasting a gun to his friends, police said on Sunday. An off-duty police officer ...

Walking back statements the Trump makes as president is keeping the White House busy How to judge US President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle the Palestinians of Gaza and ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting February 3: Non-profit social venture and think tank CyprusInno, powered by SocialTech Lab, has successfully concluded the 2024 Academy for ...

The news that yet another golf course, Limassol Greens, will be opening this summer isn’t shocking in itself, but the timing is unfortunate. Golf courses are notorious water guzzlers – ...

European data centres will expand capacity by 22 per cent this year and yet struggle to meet demand, raising the risk Europe will be left be further behind in the race ...

Alphabet has announced that it will spend $75 billion on its AI buildout this year, 29 per cent more than Wall Street expected, and investors signaled disappointment at a missed cloud revenue ...

British investors yanked a net 640 million pounds ($799 million) from equity funds in January, ending a long run of inflows, as UK-focused funds suffered their sixth-biggest monthly net withdrawals on record, ...

Registrations for new electric vehicles in the UK rose in January but their market share remained short of the 28 per cent mandate for the year, industry data showed. The Society ...

Spain’s services sector continued to expand in January, although at a slower pace than in December, as new business volumes rose sharply, according to a survey by S&...

Homeowners across Cyprus who invested in solar energy to reduce their electricity costs are now facing a growing problem: frequent remote shutdowns of their photovoltaic (PV) systems. These unexpected disconnections ...

Footage from two protests which took place at the same time on February 7, 2025, quite close to each other in Limassol: a rally against illegal immigrants organised by far-right party Elam, ...

Trade unions and political parties in the north have reacted with fury after the Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes) sent a six-page report to Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz demanding ...

Teachers’ trade unions are to study the government’s proposal for a new system of evaluating teachers, they said on Saturday. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou had unveiled the proposal on ...

Hosting this year’s Eurobasket is an “investment in Cypriot sport”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, Speaking to Greek sports website Sport24, he spoke of his love for basketball and the ...

Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct US intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing reconstruction funds following ...

Premier League champions Manchester City survived a huge FA Cup fourth-round scare as Kevin De Bruyne came off the bench to secure a 2-1 victory at third-tier Leyton Orient on ...

The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia’s power grid on Saturday, the region’s operators said, part of a plan designed to integrate the countries more ...

American-funded aid efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, as well as preventing newborn baby deaths and treating severe malnutrition, should resume, according to a memo from the United States ...

A federal judge early Saturday temporarily blocked a Trump administration panel led by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments, citing a ...

A phone alarm pings, and Adonis Florides gets up. Excuse me, he says briskly, there’s “something I have to do”. I wonder if he needs to take some pill ...

A group of investors are looking to create a basketball league that will span Asia and Europe to one day rival the NBA, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “intensifying pressure” on Turkey on the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons, the government’s humanitarian affairs director Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose gaunt appearance shocked Israelis, while Israel began freeing dozens of Palestinians in the latest stage of a ceasefire ...