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After years in the political wilderness, will independents’ day dawn at last on May 30? By Theo Panayides No independent – i.e. non-party – candidate has ever been elected to parliament in ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Monday, 69 in total. People need to present an ID or other form of identification. District Testing Sites Operating Hours Limassol (20 sites) ...

A boat with around 50 people was spotted off Cape Greco on Sunday afternoon. The vessel was spotted 16 nautical miles off Cape Greco. Police vessels with nurses and translators were on ...

By Gwynne Dyer ‘Objective allies’ generally don’t even talk to each other. They don’t have common values, their ultimate goals may be completely incompatible, they often hate each ...

Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing a day earlier than planned to allow the passage from Gaza of students, people needing medical treatment and other humanitarian cases, two sources ...

In this video, athletic brand Cyprus Another Angle interviews local quad roller-skating enthusiast Lola, who lifts the curtain on a sport that is as graceful as it is liberating and ...

DP World Limassol ready to welcome cruise lines back, as Cyprus makes a dynamic return to become Eastern Mediterranean’s top cruise hub By Nawaf Abdulla More than one year ...

The government is keen to attract young farmers to the island’s villages. Jonathan Shkurko visits Odou, where a young community is turning the land into a thriving trade Starting ...

By Nacho Doce Spanish police said they cleared 9,000 revellers from Barcelona’s city centre streets and the nearby beach on Sunday to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the first full weekend ...

The more people getting vaccinated the lower the number of cases and hospitalisations, the health ministry said on Sunday citing the latest epidemiological data. Analysing data between April 26 and May 14, ...

In this video, we head for beautiful Jaffna, the vibrant chief city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Closer to southern India than to Colombo, the region was settled ...

Andreas Avgousti, 68, died on Sunday after he was crushed by his car that fell off a 15-metre cliff on the Mandria to Koilani road in the Limassol district. According to ...

In this video, we learn the story behind Girls That Scuba – a sisterhood of diving enthusiasts and marine conservation ambassadors from all over the world. Five years ago, celebrating the ...

Ocean currents are our planet’s circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we’re changing earth in ways that threaten critical ocean currents ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Stephen Farrell Israeli air strikes killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and militants fired rockets into Israel as hostilities ...

One man wants to find a cave to live in. Another wants the jab ASAP. Divergent views on the newly introduced SafePass By Antigoni Pitta May 10 marked the much-anticipated lifting ...

Stark choices in the face of regional geopolitics and international fatigue with the Cyprus problem By Christos P Panayiotides For reasons that I have not been able to fully understand, ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Sunday inaugurated the Larnaca producers’ market in Ayios Theodoros. The minister said the market was created on the initiative of the Women’s Association of ...

A 45-year-old man was fined €3,000 after caught smuggling diesel fuel from the north, police said on Sunday. According to the police, during a coordinated operation in a farm area in ...

Five businesses and 38 people were booked during the past 24 hours for violations of the measures against the spread of coronavirus. In Nicosia, a bar was fined for serving more people ...

Cruise operator Royal Caribbean is cancelling a new line that had been scheduled to run from Israel to Greece and Cyprus from next month, citing regional security concerns. The sailings ...

By William James Ministers will make a decision on June 14 about whether or not to proceed with the final phase of lockdown easing in England, health minister Matt Hancock said ...

The classic ransom is a suitcase full of unmarked U.S. dollar bills. Bitcoin’s role in the Colonial Pipeline hack shows the global currency of crime has a rival. ...

Britain’s financial watchdog on Friday proposed new “consumer duty” rules for financial services to protect people from scams and mis-selling, which have tarnished the industry for decades. Retail investors ...