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The sale of Politis from Yiannis Papadopoulos to Chris Panayiotou was made official on Wednesday. Papadopoulos has owned the newspaper and its related companies since it was founded in 1999, and ...

The new haemodialysis unit at the Paphos general hospital is suffering from a “major shortage” of nursing staff, unit director Lakis Yioukkas said on Wednesday. He said a total of 17 ...

They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So ...

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a citizen of Uzbekistan who had confessed to planting a bomb which killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillovin Moscow a day earlier on the ...

The north’s ‘government’ was on Tuesday night challenged in ‘parliament’ over its “silence” regarding the ongoing trial of Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in jail ...

A 17-year-old boy is in a critical condition after having been knocked off his motorcycle when it was hit by a car. The collision occurred at around 3.30am in Limassol. ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday night said the international community must “make sure that the influence Turkey is trying to assert in Syria is not going to create an ...

President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster, the day after he stepped up his legal threats against news outlets ...

Wednesday’s weather will be mainly clear across most of the island, with the possibility of localised cloud in some parts of the island. Temperatures will rise to 18 degrees Celsius ...

Cyprus is set on becoming a leading voice in maritime policy and bolstering its reputation as a global shipping hub, Shipping Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanolis said during an event in ...

An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free hostages held in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in the coming days with talks in Cairo making progress, ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) this week announced the creation of the Cyprus-Uzbekistan Business Association. The chamber stated that the new association is part of its “continuous ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Tuesday called on Cypriot banks to reduce loan interest rates and associated charges, following recent developments in the financial sector. Keve’...

The Financial Conduct Authority has outlined proposals for a new platform to enable trading in shares of privately-owned firms under plans to invigorate Britain’s lacklustre capital markets and encourage ...

Britain’s competition regulator cleared Carlsberg’s (CARLb.CO) deal with soft drinks maker Britvic (BVIC.L) on Tuesday, saying it would not refer the $4.23 billion transaction for an in-depth ...

German companies feel pessimistic about the new year, with only 12.6 per cent expecting business conditions to improve in 2025, according to a poll by the Ifo institute of some 8,000 firms. “No ...

After more than 130 years of research, the hypothesis that placed the sanctuary of the great goddess of Idalion, sung in Hellenistic and Roman poetry, on the top of the hill ...

Two months ago, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York to find a way forward in the peace process, ...

The General Affairs Council of the EU adopted on Tuesday the Joint Working Programme of the Trio Presidency of the Council of the EU, which consists of Poland, Denmark and ...

The importance of the Cyprus problem with regards to the EU’s commitment to a comprehensive settlement as well as its expectation that Turkey “commits and actively contributes to such ...

Deputy Minister for European Affairs Marilena Raouna on Tuesday said the EU should be at the forefront of actions to drive “stability and prosperity” in Syria, while she stressed Cyprus ...

Authorities in Mayotte struggled on Tuesday to stop hunger, disease and lawlessness from spreading in the French overseas territory after the weekend’s devastating cyclone, while Mozambique reported dozens of ...

Now is the best opportunity since 2017 to have positive momentum on issues that concern members of the public such as opening new crossing points, UN Special Representative and Unficyp head ...

Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said his mother was in hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating a case of attempted homicide. Kara-Murza said suspicions that ...