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A 60-year-old man attacked two Greek-American tourists with a knife on Tuesday in the Acropolis area, near the archaeological site which hosts Greece’s famed ancient monuments, before being arrested ...

Cypriot cinema is making a significant impact on the international scene, with several locally funded productions winning prestigious awards at film festivals in Europe and Asia, producers said on Tuesday. ...

Cyprus Cement Public Company Ltd announced on Tuesday afternoon that it completed a further share buyback, acquiring 1,790 of its own shares at €1.33 each for a total value of €2,380.70. The transaction ...

Away from the busy summer hotspots and loud late-night parties is a festival tucked away among tall pine trees. There, in the cool evening breeze found only in the mountains ...

A Cypriot family, a Jewish volunteer donor and two Arab couples living in Israel were recently linked through a domino effect transplant system involving a chain of donors that saved ...

Fuel tanker owners, protesting on Tuesday outside the presidential palace, handed a memorandum to deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou demanding more time to comply with ADR requirements, but the road ...

Cyprus debt ratio falls to 54.6 per cent in first quarter of 2026 Cyprus reduced its government debt ratio in the first quarter of 2026, recording one of the largest annual declines in ...

Hadjimanolis lines up India shipping mission Cyprus and India are seeking to turn their expanding political ties into concrete maritime partnerships, with Shipping Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanolis preparing an official ...

Police on Tuesday said investigations into the case surrounding the publishing of a Down syndrome abuse video are ongoing, assuring its cybercrime unit had undertaken the necessary steps to identify ...

The Pancyprian Cooperative Society for Participation and Promotion of Cooperativism has announced the launch of an online platform allowing the public to purchase shares in the proposed Pancyprian Cooperative Bank ...

A 44-year-old man was on Tuesday sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of rape by the Paphos permanent criminal court. The Paphos CID launched a case ...

The father of a three-year-old boy who fell to his death from a fourth-floor window of a hotel in Chlorakas, Paphos was on Tuesday charged with causing death by recklessness ...

A British woman was on Monday arrested at Paphos airport after customs officers seized a total of 44 cartons in her luggage. The cartons, containing 200 cigarettes each, did not bear the ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met some of Ukraine’s top military commanders to try to ease growing discontent with the defence leadership that has triggered the largest street protests since Russia’...

Former justice minister Nicos Papaioannou died on Tuesday at the age of 79. Born in Larnaca in 1947, he served on the ports authority’s board of directors between 1982 and 1988, before being ...

Cyprus recorded a general government surplus of €567.10 million in the first quarter of 2026, as public revenue continued to rise despite a faster increase in government expenditure, according to preliminary figures ...

Cypriot sailor Pavlos Kontides is sixth overall in the ILCA 7 class after the opening five races of the Los Angeles Grand Slam. After finishing 27th in the first race, a ...

Cyprus’ outstanding tax debt rose to €4.64 billion by the end of 2025, with immediately collectable arrears reaching €3.32 billion, according to data from the Tax Department. The figures were reported by Philenews, ...

A second tanker managed by Greek shipowner George Procopiou’s Dynacom Tankers Management has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz, as commercial traffic through the waterway fell to a ...

The tender award process for the first phase of the Paphos-Polis Chrysochous road remains pending, with an update on the project expected by the end of the month, Paphos chamber ...

The Cyprus Red Cross has launched a nationwide back-to-school campaign to collect school supplies for children from financially vulnerable families ahead of the new academic year. The “Back to School – ...

Mitsides Public Company Limited confirmed on Tuesday that shareholders approved a final dividend of €0.05 per share during its annual general meeting held on July 17, 2026, alongside a series of governance decisions. “...

Demetra Holdings Plc announced this week that board member Mark Klerides had stepped down from the board of directors and the boards of its subsidiaries, marking a leadership change alongside ...

The Financial Wellbeing Institute (FWI) has been selected as one of the ten founding organisations of FIN.e, a new European alliance designed to strengthen financial literacy and financial wellbeing ...