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Between January and October 2024, the industrial production index in Cyprus increased by 3.8 per cent compared to the same period in 2023, according to a report released from the state’s statistical ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) performed robustly in 2024, with significant increases in trading activity, market capitalisation, and investment interest, according to its chairman Marinos Christodoulides. The CSE chairman said that ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks on Monday announced that interbank and cross-border transactions will soon be completed in just 10 seconds, with the service being available round-the-clock. The new service will ...

Gradual interest rate cuts in Turkey next year will boost the banking sector and support demand for Turkish lira assets, Garanti BBVA (GARAN.IS) bank Chief Executive Mahmut Akten said ...

Global property catastrophe reinsurance rates will fall 5 per cent to 15 per cent on Jan. 1 for books of businesses which have not suffered losses, reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has said, as ...

South Korea’s factory output fell more sharply than expected in November, government data showed on Monday, amid slowing exports and weakening business confidence. The industrial output index (KRIO=ECI) ...

The government said Monday it has implemented changes to the functioning of a small number of traffic cameras following complaints about drivers getting unfairly saddled with fines for violations. Alexis ...

It is very reassuring hearing President Nikos Christodoulides speaking with such conviction about Cyprus’ strong relations with the United States, about Cyprus’ position in the West and his commitment to ...

Syria hopes for strategic partnerships with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in Damascus ...

Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with the two sides bringing home a combined total of more than 300 former captives. Kyiv brought ...

In an environment of instability and uncertainty, Greece aims to serve as a bridge between North and South, East and West and to act as a stabilizing factor, Greek Foreign ...

The government aims in 2025 to update the Interpol database with Cypriot antiquities lost abroad with information on private collections that were in the north until 1974 and have since been lost, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will visit on Tuesday the USS Indiana submarine which is in Limassol for a New Year port call. US Ambassador to Cyprus, Julie Fisher, in a post ...

Restoration is to begin in the early part of the new year at Famagusta’s St George of the Latins church, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay ...

A 41-year-old Greek Cypriot man was shot at the Ayia Fyla area in Limassol on Monday night, which police are investigating as an attempted murder. The shooter fled with the ...

Hello 2025! It is the first week of the year and as the holiday season continues, so does the island’s live music scene. Local musicians do what they do best ...

Tourists in Barcelona’s historic centre were enjoying the last days of gas-powered patio heaters before their use is banned in 2025 because of their carbon emissions. The ban will come ...

Kazakhstan reached the quarter-finals of the United Cup mixed team tournament with a comfortable win over Greece on Monday as Elena Rybakina defeated Maria Sakkari 6-4 6-3 after Alexander Shevchenko ...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing ...

A man was shot in the face while out hunting near the Karpas peninsula villages of Eptakomi and Galateia, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Monday. The man, named as 44...

The north’s ‘government’ on Monday formalised its plans to move northern Nicosia’s court buildings from their current location in Nicosia’s old town to the under-construction ‘government’ complex ...

Russia pumped gas on Monday to European customers via Ukraine for one of the last days before a key transit deal expires at the end of the year, marking the ...

The floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) is currently moored at the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia, where it’s undergoing technical checks, the energy minister said on Monday. George Papanastasiou ...

Police on Monday said there were assessing whether the death of 62-year-old Vitaly Shostak in Limassol was a premeditated murder or suicide. Shostak was found to have died from a ...