Archive 2026

Investment broker Eurobank Equities has said that the Greek banking sector, which includes financial institutions also operating in Cyprus, continues to be undervalued by the market, maintaining a “buy” recommendation ...

British manufacturers give a patchy picture of their ability to ramp up output should the government need to ​mobilise key industries, a survey showed on Monday. Britain ‌is redoubling efforts ...

Global smartphone shipments declined by 4.1 per cent year-on-year to 289.7 million units in the first quarter of 2026, marking the end of a 10-quarter growth streak, according to a report from the ...

Excavation works are underway in Kato Deryneia, Ayios Memnonas, where the committee of missing persons (CMP) is actively searching for the remains of twelve individuals, including women and children. Speaking ...

The Christodoulides government has made a habit of pulling the plug on several public projects, regardless of the cost to the taxpayer. The most high profile termination was the Vassiliko ...

David Burke, a 21‑year‑old musician known professionally as D4vd, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 14‑year‑old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, months after her dismembered ...

Poor biosafety practices regarding the movement of animals are behind the spread of foot-and-mouth disease into new areas, special scientific committee head Stavros Malas said on Monday. Attending a meeting ...

A warning by Dmitry Medvedev has heightened concerns among Gulf states that reopening the Strait of Hormuz may be the most negotiations between Iran and the US can achieve, falling ...

Cypriot sailor Pavlos Kontides finished the opening day of competition at the Grand Slam of Hyeres in France in 20th place overall in the ILCA7 class on Monday, with a ...

Israel’s intelligence service Mossad, the IDF, as well as its security agency, Shin Bet, alleged on Monday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) smuggled explosive drones from ...

Iran is considering attending peace talks with the United States in Pakistan, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, following moves by Islamabad to end a US blockade of ...

Noticeable price increases in products listed on the government’s e-kalathi online price comparison platform have emerged since last recorded, the Consumers Association warned on Monday, also finding limited competitive ...

The ‘Sandy affair’ will not impact an ongoing investigation into other claims made by journalist Makarios Drousiotis, the anti-corruption authority said on Monday, as reports surfaced that yet another photograph ...

Toddlers, music and museums. Can they come together? Most concerts are addressed to older audiences who sit quietly, with their phones on silent and clap politely when the performance is ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday said he had asked the group overseeing security standards across government to examine any security concerns raised during Peter Mandelson’s tenure as ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos directly challenged his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan’s assertion that Greece, Cyprus and Israel have formed a military alliance against Muslim countries in the region. In ...

Reservoirs across the island reached about 38 per cent of capacity on Monday – a marked increase on the same time last year. Overall, the dams are now 37.9 per cent full, corresponding ...

A joint letter sent by the governments of Greece and Cyprus to the European Investment Bank requested a new due diligence study, not extra funding, for the Great Sea Interconnector ...

A criminal investigator testified on Monday before the Nicosia district court that social welfare officers failed to follow prescribed procedures in the case of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou, who died by ...

The Turkish Cypriot legislature on Monday voted unanimously to withdraw a bill aiming to cut payments of the cost-of-living allowance to public sector workers which had earlier provoked a general ...

President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel did not persuade him to attack Iran, after news reports that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu influenced the U.S. president’s decision ...

The National Bank of Greece recently announced the free distribution of 169,060 ordinary registered voting shares to eligible beneficiaries under the third cycle of its 2023 Stock Awards Programme. The bank said ...

Iran is considering attending peace talks with the United States in Pakistan, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, following moves by Islamabad to end a U.S. blockade ...

Significant progress in tackling racial discrimination in Cyprus has been made over the past decade, Law Commissioner Sofia Kleopa Hadjikyriakou told a United Nations committee in Geneva. She was speaking ...