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By Catherine Gegout The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader, Mohammed Deif. The ...

As temperatures around the island hit a low point on Sunday the first snow of the season fell on the mountains. At around 1pm a flurry of snow fell on ...

Hundreds of people demonstrated against “the transformation of Cyprus into a base for war” outside the US-sponsored security training facility CyCLOPS in Larnaca on Sunday. The protestors, carrying banners with ...

Elon Musk on Sunday declared that Cyprus YouTuber and MEP Fidias Panayiotou should become “president of the EU”. In a post on X, Musk responded to another user who said ...

By Alexandra Ulmer Donald Trump Jr. has emerged as the most influential Trump family member in the transition as the president-elect builds the most controversial cabinet in modern U.S. ...

By Nicolas Poumpourides I was recently the trainer at an advanced six-hour training session for the staff members of the Cyprus Financial Services Supervisory Authority (CySEC). In the course of ...

We recently returned from a holiday in Paphos, not having been in the previous five years due to Covid etc. I was pleased to read that tourism has increased, but ...

Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier, the unofficial starting point for the festive season – December 1, at least according to Advent calendars – getting progressively pushed back. Supermarkets have been playing ...

By Olena Harmash Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it captured in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement on Sunday, and ...

How can Cyprus be an energy hub since no financially viable gas has been discovered? The government managed to spend a lot of money on Vasiliko with nothing to show. ...

Over 100 million euro will be spent to upgrade the health sector by 2027, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Sunday. He said this was made clear during a meeting on Friday ...

A 10-day old seal, one of the rarest animals in Europe, was rescued off the coast of Cyprus, the ministry of agriculture announced on Sunday. The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus ...

In the immediate years after the Cyprus financial crisis of 2012/2013 there was a compelling need to stabilise government finances with austerity and banks with credit restraint, however, such policies have ...

Cyprus’ commitment to implementing decisive actions against the climate crisis was reaffirmed by Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou during her participation in the COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, the ministry announced ...

The brains of today’s birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But how the avian brain evolved over many millions of years ...

Fraternal relations must be full of sincerity, such as those between Greece and Cyprus,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. “I have dealt historically with Athens-Nicosia relations and I think ...

How sad to see the closure of the fish tavern Ayios Georgios in Peyia with its world class view. It seems that it is to be taken over by the ...

By Philip Almond Netflix’s upcoming biblical biopic, Mary, has been attacked on social media because the title character and her husband Joseph are being played by Israeli actors. The ...

The upgrade of the Cyprus economy’s rating by Moody’s on Saturday is a self-evident vote of confidence in the practices applied by the government, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi A gunman was dead and three Jordanian policemen injured after a shooting near the heavily fortified Israeli embassy in the capital Ammanin Sunday’s early hours, a ...

Health Minister Michalis Damianos will leave for Germany on Sunday to sign a co-opeation agreement with the Tubingen University Clinic. The agreement will cover the treatment of liver issues. The ...

Russia has removed a senior general in Ukraine for giving misleading reports about the progress of the war as Defence Minister Andrei Belousov tries to clear out poor commanders, pro-Russian ...

Max Verstappen clinched his fourth consecutive World Drivers’ Championship with a fifth-place finish at the Las Vegas Grand Prix late Saturday night, while George Russell led all 50 laps to complete ...