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What exciting news about the longed-for crematorium. As has been reported on many occasions there are thousands of us of all nationalities and faiths wanting this to happen. Cost, pollution ...

March is going to be an exciting month at Rialto Theatre as diverse productions are coming to the stage. From shows highlighting French singers and Greek composers, and performances that ...

A memorial service was held on Sunday for the second in command of EOKA, Gregoris Afxentiou at Machairas, in the Troodos mountains. The annual service was attended by President Nikos ...

The Cyprus Orthodox Church’s stance that it will not perform funeral rites for individuals who choose cremation is ridiculous and unchristian and is based on an interpretation on religious ...

By Guy Faulconbridge Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s “common sense” aim to end the war in Ukraine, but accused the European ...

By Alexander Larin On August 26, 1898, 1,126 Russian Doukhobors arrived at the port of Larnaca on the French steamship Le Douro from Georgia. After completing quarantine, 560 Doukhobors rented a 1,334-acre farm from ...

By Lisa Richwine The Academy Awards, the highest honors in the film business, take place on Sunday with no clear frontrunner among “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Conclave” and other movies contending ...

By Andreas Theophanous When it was first announced that Nikos Christodoulides would run for the presidency, expectations soared. Yet, as time passed, doubts about his candidacy began to surface, revealing ...

Cyprus stands at the side of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Saturday night. In a post on X, it said that continuing dialogue to ending the war is key. “...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will try to revive hope for peace in Ukraine at a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other Western leaders on Sunday, two days after the ...

In Geneva we will do everything possible to achieve a positive result, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday referring to an enlarged meeting there later this month on Cyprus talks. ...

Two people were arrested in Limassol on Sunday after a teenager reported the previous day that he had been kidnapped, police said. Police said the arrests were made for a ...

Cyprus’ chief scientist Demetris Skourides was presented with the Global Leader award during the 2025 Global Business Conclave awards ceremony in London, his ffice announced on Sunday. The award ceremony took ...

The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth’s confines causes many ...

Almost 700 people have applied for the small-scale building violations amnesty, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Ilia said on Sunday, as the deadline for applications approaches. The scheme was introduced on ...

I found them on the hills of Pentalia. Two bodies, stiff, discarded as if they had never lived, as if their devotion had meant nothing. Hunting dogs, once valued for ...

Two people have been kept in a holding cell at Larnaca airport for over two months, police confirmed on Sunday. Responding to press reports, it said the case refers to ...

After starting clear, some rain is expected to develop on Sunday afternoon, mainly in the mountains, inland and in the north, leaving Limassol fine for the carnival parade. Warm weather ...

With carnival celebrations set to reach a peak at lunchtime on Sunday, police have repeated a call to drivers on the Nicosia-Limassol highway to follow instructions. The carnival parade will ...

The case of X v Cyprus attracted worldwide attention as it highlights the plight of rape complainants In a judgement last Thursday in the application of X v Cyprus, the ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting February 24: Natural gas production from Block 6 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) could commence within 2 to 2.5 years, according ...

I HOPE that we have not disappointed all those people who had thought our establishment had closed down and that Patroclos had gone into retirement so he could concentrate on ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer greeted President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a warm embrace on Saturday after the Ukrainian leader flew to London for talks following his clash at the White ...

The prospect of an informal, multi-party gathering in Geneva that would examine the possibility of a new peace process, which is anything but a certainty, appears to have worried some ...