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“April showers bring May flowers, and aren’t we all very blessed this year?” says Episkopi Paphos Environmental Centre ahead of its new spring activities. “The end of April and ...

The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from NATO ally Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, as a rift over the Iran war widens between President Donald Trump and Europe. Trump ...

More than two months into a conflict that has failed to deliver a decisive military or diplomatic win, President Donald Trump faces the risk that a standoff with Iran will ...

Unilever (ULVR.L) said this week it would raise prices to soften the hit from higher-than-expected ​costs driven by the Iran war, even as it reported first-quarter underlying sales growth ...

Short sellers’ bets against US life insurance stocks more than doubled in the past year to over $5 billion, a Reuters analysis of ORTEX data shows, a move that ​analysts say ...

British retailers reported the broadest year-on-year decline in sales in more than ​40 years as the Iran war raised households’ inflation fears, a ‌survey from the Confederation of British Industry showed ...

South Korea and Google have agreed to build an artificial-intelligence campus in Seoul to develop cooperation between the tech firm and ​local engineers and startups, Kim Yong-beom, a presidential policy ...

Workers and members of the trade union movement on Friday held their annual May Day march to the Ledra Palace hotel, in Nicosia’s buffer zone, with marches beginning from ...

A day devoted to nature, appreciating the environment and engaging in creative expression is coming up this Sunday as another edition of the Akrotiri Spring Festival arrives. The Akrotiri Environmental ...

A US military-run centre near Gaza that critics say failed in its mission to monitor the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boost aid flows to besieged Palestinians is set to be shut ...

More than 100 pro-Palestinian activists aboard boats carrying aid bound for Gaza were taken to the Greek island of Crete on Friday after Israeli forces seized their vessels in international waters ...

Diko has “no red lines” regarding the question of with whom the party may collaborate to nominate a House president after this month’s parliamentary election, its leader Nicholas Papadopoulos ...

A hand grenade exploded outside the home of an elderly couple in Paphos on Thursday evening, the police confirmed on Friday. The police said the explosion occurred at around 10.30pm ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s wife Sibel Tatar on Friday said she is considering entering frontline politics after having “received an offer” from former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator ...

By Marko Ljubicic If you’re from Nicosia, chances are you have a strong opinion about the city’s old town. You’re either drawn to its serpentine streets, its ...

It is a Thursday night and the old town of Nicosia is calm yet there is always a buzz within the walls. Beer bottles clink, coffee cups are brewing, guide ...

Where do you live?I live in Paphos, Cyprus with my family – my parents and my brother. What did you have for breakfast?I normally have my own homemade granola ...

The government’s planned reforms to the pension system are being drawn up “precisely in the spirit” of May Day, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said at an event held to ...

This year, the 23rd edition of the Summer Dance Festival by Nea Kinisi changes gears by taking root entirely in the Limassol Municipal Garden, where the Municipal Dance Centre is ...

The Paphos regional tourism board (Etap), in collaboration with Constantinou Bros Hotels, is hosting 36 members of the British Guild of Travel Writers in the city as part of a destination ...

A 45-year-old man appeared in a London court on Friday charged with attempted murder over an attack during which two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, in ...

A senior United Arab Emirates official said on Friday Tehran could not be trusted over any unilateral arrangements it makes for the Strait of Hormuz, in a sign of deep ...

The past weeks have not been reassuring for those who thought Europe could navigate its tricky relationship with US President Donald Trump. Trump this week lashed out at German Chancellor ...

The European Union “is our common home”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, as Cyprus marked 22 years since its accession to the trading bloc. He described Cyprus’ joining of the ...