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The Cypriot economy demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2024, achieving a growth rate of 3.7 per cent despite persistent geopolitical and internal challenges. Tourism, construction, and the wholesale and retail trade sectors have ...

A 31-year-old man was remanded for three days on Tuesday by the Famagusta district court for a burglary and illegal possession of drugs. He was reported to have been stealing ...

Former England boss Gareth Southgate, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris Olympics gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson were among the hundreds named in King Charles’s New Year honours list published ...

Newcastle United beat Manchester United 2-0 in the Premier League on Monday thanks to early headed goals from Alexander Isak and Joelinton at Old Trafford, an ugly culmination of one ...

The autopsy on the 26-year-old Polish national who died from a fall at a construction site will be carried out on Thursday morning. All works at the construction site have ...

The end of a year is naturally a time for reflection, and it would be a sad thing if reflection couldn’t be turned into a set of unjustifiable and ...

The first month of the year has several music and literature events in Paphos. First and foremost is an intimate live performance by the acoustic jazz band Trio in Cahoots ...

All roads leading to Troodos were reopened again shortly after midday on Tuesday, the police said, with access from Troodos square towards the top of Mount Olympus restricted to vehicles ...

Police on Tuesday were on the hunt for a 25-year-old man believed to be behind an attempted murder in Limassol on Monday night. Egyptian national Shehata Seifeldin Sayed shot at ...

A police officer and a lawyer were arrested on Tuesday morning for aiding the escape of the Swedish fugitive that had been held under police custody at a Larnaca hospital. ...

An elderly couple in Limassol died after a fire broke out in their home late on Monday night. Evangelos Vasiliou, 73 and his wife Pantelitsa Vasiliou were in their Pano Polemidia ...

Between January and October 2024, the industrial production index in Cyprus increased by 3.8 per cent compared to the same period in 2023, according to a report released from the state’s statistical ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) performed robustly in 2024, with significant increases in trading activity, market capitalisation, and investment interest, according to its chairman Marinos Christodoulides. The CSE chairman said that ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks on Monday announced that interbank and cross-border transactions will soon be completed in just 10 seconds, with the service being available round-the-clock. The new service will ...

Gradual interest rate cuts in Turkey next year will boost the banking sector and support demand for Turkish lira assets, Garanti BBVA (GARAN.IS) bank Chief Executive Mahmut Akten said ...

Global property catastrophe reinsurance rates will fall 5 per cent to 15 per cent on Jan. 1 for books of businesses which have not suffered losses, reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has said, as ...

South Korea’s factory output fell more sharply than expected in November, government data showed on Monday, amid slowing exports and weakening business confidence. The industrial output index (KRIO=ECI) ...

The government said Monday it has implemented changes to the functioning of a small number of traffic cameras following complaints about drivers getting unfairly saddled with fines for violations. Alexis ...

It is very reassuring hearing President Nikos Christodoulides speaking with such conviction about Cyprus’ strong relations with the United States, about Cyprus’ position in the West and his commitment to ...

Syria hopes for strategic partnerships with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in Damascus ...

Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with the two sides bringing home a combined total of more than 300 former captives. Kyiv brought ...

In an environment of instability and uncertainty, Greece aims to serve as a bridge between North and South, East and West and to act as a stabilizing factor, Greek Foreign ...

The government aims in 2025 to update the Interpol database with Cypriot antiquities lost abroad with information on private collections that were in the north until 1974 and have since been lost, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will visit on Tuesday the USS Indiana submarine which is in Limassol for a New Year port call. US Ambassador to Cyprus, Julie Fisher, in a post ...