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Sustainable and resilient tourism will be a key priority of the EU council presidency, Deputy Tourism Minister Kostas Koumis said on Friday, addressing a European conference in Nicosia on climate ...

By Pavlos Loizou In recent months, Cyprus developers have intensified pressure on the government to relax planning regulations by reducing minimum apartment sizes and abolishing mandatory parking requirements per unit. ...

President Donald Trump expressed disappointment about U.S. negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and warned that “sometimes you have to use force,” amid a massive military presence in ...

Diageo’s (DGE.L) new boss Dave Lewis cut the company’s annual sales forecast and dividend in his first results presentation earlier this week, sending its shares down 6 per ...

HSBC Holdings (HSBA.L) lifted a key earnings target after its annual profit beat expectations, a decision which reflects that most of the bank’s planned overhaul has now been ...

British luxury car maker Aston Martin (AML.L) will cut its workforce by up to 20 per cent, the company said this week, as it strives to recover from the impact ...

Akel on Friday said Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou must “resign or be sacked”, lambasting her response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district last summer, water shortages, and ...

The Audit Office, in its report about the policy on renewable energy sources (RES), inadvertently mentioned yet another striking example of the incompetence that marked the Anastasiades government’s energy ...

Paramount Skydance PSKY.O is expected to easily gain European Union antitrust approval to buy Warner Bros DiscoveryWBD.O while divestments, if required to address regulatory concerns, will likely be ...

A 32-year-old and a 28-year-old were arrested on suspicion of involvement in four arson cases in Limassol and are due to appear before Limassol district court on Saturday, police said ...

The annual inflation in the north stood at 39.5 per cent at the end of 2025, while tourist arrivals increased by 17.2 percent compared to the previous year, the north’s central bank ...

Two mass graves containing a total of at least 172 bodies have been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Uvira, following the withdrawal of the AFC/...

Three flights from Istanbul to Tehran were cancelled on Friday, according to data from Istanbul Airport. They comprised a Turkish Airlines flight departing at 10:15 p.m. (1915 GMT), an ATA Airlines ...

Two transgender men in Kansas filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to strike down a new state law that invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of more than 1,000 ...

Investigations into the case of two people arrested on suspicion of terrorism after allegedly monitoring and photographing sites of foreign interest in Cyprus have so far found no evidence that ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday raised the prospect of a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, telling reporters at the White House that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was dealing ...

Major infrastructure projects in the Paphos district are progressing smoothly and without setbacks, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Friday during a meeting at the Paphos Chamber of Commerce and ...

Foreigners in Cyprus are three times more likely than Cypriots to report discrimination when accessing public services, according to data published on Friday by Eurostat. “At EU level, data show ...

NASA is adding a spacecraft docking test to its Artemis moon program before landing its first astronauts on the moon in over half a century, overhauling the flagship U.S. ...

Netflix jumped more than 10% on Friday as investors applauded its decision to exit the race for Warner Bros Discovery, a months-long bidding war with Paramount Skydance for some of Hollywood’...

The neighbourhood police unit has been strengthened with the addition of 17 new officers, marking a 50 per cent increase in staff, the police communications branch announced on Friday. The move forms ...

An evening of vocal lyricism fast approaches in the capital as internationally acclaimed Cypriot performer and songwriter Vakia Stavrou returns for one final evening at Ktirio 53. Right before the singer ...

Bill Clinton told lawmakers on Friday that he “saw nothing that gave me pause” when he spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, as the former president gave closed-door testimony about his ...

One person was killed and around 40 injured, including one in a critical condition, when a tram derailed in central Milan on Friday, a spokesperson for local firefighters said. The tram, ...