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Police on Monday said they arrested seven asylum seekers who attempted to leave Cyprus using forged travel documents. The arrests concern four Congolese men, aged 35, 28, 27, and 25, a 20-year-old man from ...

Ed Asner, who played a gruff newsman for laughs and for drama in the classic TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff “Lou Grant” in the 1970s ...

As the values of residential properties are recovering and older properties have become quite competitive by comparison to new units, it could be time to consider upgrading residential units. People ...

Five businesses and 29 individuals across the island were booked in the 24 hours until 6am Monday for violating coronavirus protocols, police said. The fines resulted from 3,756 checks. According to police, eight ...

A 38-year-old driver was arrested after she hit a motorcyclist, 28, who died as a result of the crash late on Sunday in Limassol. The collision took place on Omonias avenue ...

A 58-year-old man was arrested driving four times over the maximum alcohol limit without insurance, police said on Monday. The man, who lives in Nicosia, was stopped for a traffic ...

Turkey’s central bank has changed the criteria identifying short-term external debt, thus reducing the amount on its books by $25 billion, the bank announced in a statement last week. Short-term ...

By Devika Krishna Kumar and Peter Szekely Nearly all of Louisiana lost electrical power on Monday after one of the most powerful hurricanes to strike the region downed power lines, ...

Gita Gopinath, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has warned that recovering economies will be threatened by a ‘taper tantrum’ — meaning that interest rates rise in the US ...

Cypriots who invest in global stocks will get a bonus this year, if the company they’ve place funds with pays dividends. They may also be rewarded with a shares ...

Have we passed the peak of inflation fear? Investment insights from EFG Bank After one of the worst years for global economic growth in 2020, this year looks set to be ...

Transport ministry says Ayia Fyla traffic light system a success While public reaction to the island’s first smart traffic light system at the busy Ayia Fyla roundabout in Limassol ...

Tottenham Hotspur maintained their 100% start to the Premier League season with a 1-0 win over Watford on Sunday thanks to a somewhat fortuitous first-half goal from Son Heung-min. Son fired ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday without racing even a single lap as half-points were awarded for only the sixth time in Formula ...

Turkey cannot take the burden of a new migrant wave from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday after talks with his German counterpart, as concerns about a new ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the ...

Contrary to official statements that air quality was not hugely affected by the factory fire that burned overnight on Thursday in Yeri, a University of Cyprus (UCy) monitoring system found ...

The health ministry said on Sunday that two people died from Covid-19 and that 208 tested positive from 30,027 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.69 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday to honor members of the military killed in a suicide bomb attack during the evacuation of civilians ...

President Nicos Anastasiades, with his proposal that the two sides in Cyprus return to the 1960 constitutional arrangement, has “lost all credibility”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has said. In a ...

Capital markets and the insurance sector are becoming increasingly reluctant to fund and insure fossil fuels The oil and gas sector is undergoing permanent change brought about by a number ...

A man aged 57 has been arrested on suspicion of stealing three cows from a farm in Anarita in Paphos. The farmer reported the theft to police on Friday, saying that ...

Turkish Cypriots are seeing a doubling in the price of coffee and bread, reports from the north said on Sunday. Global fuel prices are currently contributing to an increase in ...

Free testing for certain groups will be at the following locations on Monday: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (10 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 1st Primary ...