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Two 14-year-olds were arrested after attacking police officers with stones in Limassol on Friday.Police arrived around 9pm in the Yermasoyia area, responding to reports of teenagers setting fire to ...

A yellow weather warning is in place with storms expected to affect the island on Saturday afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will continue mainly in the south, southeast and north, ...

“Cyprus heals,” says Koraly Dimitriadis . “When we come back – even for a short while – the island starts to heal us.” Like so many of us, Koraly was born and raised ...

The Organisations of Turkic States’ (OTS) council of elders held a meeting in Kyrenia on Friday – the council’s 17th since its establishment in 2010. It was attended by council chairman ...

Australians voted on Saturday in a national election that polls show will likely favour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party over the conservative opposition, as worries about Donald Trump’...

The Israeli military said on Saturday it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, as the US intensifies its strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthi group. The military said sirens ...

Cyprus recorded a general government surplus of €580.6 million in the first quarter of 2025, according to preliminary data published by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) on Friday. The surplus represents 1.6 per ...

The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) this week released a statement celebrating a series of outstanding student achievements in April 2025, showcasing Cyprus’ growing presence on the global technology stage through both ...

Spotify forecast second-quarter profit below market estimates this week due to employee salary-related taxes, taking the shine off its strong subscriber growth and sending shares of the Swedish music-streaming giant ...

IBM (IBM.N) will invest $150 billion in the US, including on facilities for quantum computer production, over the next five years, the latest American technology company to back the Trump ...

The first 27 satellites for Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida earlier this week, kicking off the long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network that will ...

Press freedom in Cyprus has sharply declined over the past year, with the country now ranked 77th out of 180 in the 2025 Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ...

The government should be congratulated for formulating a ‘holistic’ plan for dealing with forest fires. This was finalised at a meeting on Friday under President Christodoulides, attended by several ministers ...

Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday, adding to signs that attempts to stop the fighting and return ...

At least eight people were injured, three of them seriously, after a car drove into a crowd in the centre of the southwestern German city of Stuttgart on Friday in ...

A new archaeological discovery in the region of Akamas is changing the early prehistory of Cyprus, the Department of Antiquities announced on Friday. “A very special find, discovered in situ, ...

Frederick University in Cyprus has awarded Columbia University professor of economics Jeffrey Sachs an honorary doctorate on Friday evening “for his significant contributions to global sustainable development and his effective ...

For the third time since April 8, thousands of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets to protest against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs ...

Proceedings at the Nicosia criminal court in the usurpation case against a German real estate agent continued on Friday with the examination and cross-examination of the investigating officer, who presented ...

Dozens of people gathered outside the presidential palace in Nicosia on Friday evening to protest against the president’s upcoming trip to Israel and his scheduled meeting with Israeli Prime ...

The United States on Friday designated Haiti’s powerful Viv Ansanm gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital Port-au-Prince and spread to surrounding areas, a “...

Two 16-year-olds were arrested on Friday in connection with the damage of a police patrol car on April 17, when a group of young people hurled rocks at it. In the ...

A review and the way forward By Andreas Theophanous When Cyprus joined the EU, there were high expectations in all aspects. First and foremost, there was the belief that the ...

In a celebration of Cyprus’s agricultural heritage, farming organisations PEK, EKA, Panagrotikos, and Euroagrotikos will host an event on Sunday, May 4 at the Community Bank of Cypriot Traditional Seeds ...