Archive 2026

US rapper Kanye West, who has been barred from performing in several countries due to past antisemitic comments, drew more than 100,000 fans to a concert in Istanbul on Saturday night. ...

A 29-year-old man was remanded in police custody for three days on Sunday by the Nicosia district court after he reportedly threw a flare at a police officer trying to ...

A total of 378,150 people voted in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections – but what about the foreign nationals? That number represents 66.4 per cent of those who were eligible to vote, but ...

By Yiannakis Kaponi A constituent telephones a newly elected MP in Nicosia. There have been repeated serious road accidents on a dangerous stretch of road in their area. Residents demand ...

The importance of foster care as an essential form of alternative care for children under the care of the state was highlighted by the deputy ministry of social welfare on ...

The enormous economic activity of some livestock breeders with those in the north was one of the reasons that led to the foot and mouth disease crisis, head of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday accompanied by ministers and a business delegation, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Sunday. It is the ...

The law needs to be changed in Cyprus so that the police accept the evidence from drivers’ dashcams and set up a website where drivers can upload their evidence of ...

Cyprus acting as a bridge with the region is a continuation of the Informal European Council and now we have expanded the scope of this neighborhood, reaching as far as ...

During President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, President Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap directly in his discussion with the American president. Its use, for the first time ...

Fireworks set off without permission by a traffic policeman during a late-night rehearsal for Italy’s Republic Day parade startled dozens of horses, sending them bolting through the capital and ...

Israeli troops have seized the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle and its strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday, a major advance against Iran-backed Hezbollah despite a ceasefire announced ...

Four people were arrested overnight as part of nationwide preventive policing, police said on Sunday as operations continue to prevent serious criminal acts, ensure public order and enhance the public’...

The death toll from a chemical tank rupture in the US state of Washington climbed to 11 as crews recovered the bodies of all nine missing people, authorities said on Saturday. ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this week that the rapid development ‌and adoption of AI would not lead to a global “jobs apocalypse” and the technology had not claimed as ...

After the passing of early morning cloud and fog, the weather for the rest of the day is expected to be clear. At noon though more clouds are expected to ...

A man from the Famagusta area has been arrested after a police officer was attacked on Saturday evening. At 5.30pm on Saturday, members of the Xylotympou and Xylophagou police stations ...

There are still a number of communist parties active in the world, among them those in China and Cyprus, which, in their different ways kept the red flag flying after ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting May 25: The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) has strengthened its institutional links with the real estate ...

The plane lands in Larnaca. Or Paphos. You wait for the seatbelt sign to turn off – because you’re good like that; the air stewards don’t need to flap ...

UNFORTUNATELY, the election results were disappointingly predictable and the instability that the government, Annita, Junior and Phil’s hacks were terrified of did not happen. The two big parties both ...

British shop price inflation sped up in May on the back of disruption and ​higher energy costs caused by the Iran ‌war, according to a retail industry group which said ...

The remuneration, allowances, retirement bonus and pensions of deputies featured in news reports in the last week and reminded us that in Cyprus there is a political aristocracy that enjoys ...

Wall Street banks are pushing the Federal Reserve behind the scenes to cement its new supervisory regime so the changes cannot easily be reversed by potential future Democratic administrations, said ...