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Endings are hard. And when you’ve enjoyed two books as much as this reader enjoyed Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto, it was always going to be difficult coming to ...

Ten people were arrested during coordinated police operations across Cyprus overnight for offences including vehicle theft, handling stolen property, theft and traffic violations, police said. As part of the operations, ...

A 79-year-old man is in critical condition following a car accident in Nicosia early on Saturday. According to police, the crash occurred at around 12.30am on Niki Avenue when, under ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Saturday welcomed Morningstar DBRS’ decision to revise Cyprus’ credit outlook from stable to positive while affirming the Republic’s long-term rating at ‘A’, describing it ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s initiative to reduce electricity prices by 20 per cent has sparked intense public debate. The government, professional bodies, and market stakeholders quickly disputed his calculations, particularly regarding ...

On September 12, the Nicosia International Festival raises the curtain and for 50 days, it brings theatre, dance, music and performances from Cyprus and abroad. Twenty two productions will soon land in ...

Saturday will start mostly clear before clouds build after midday, bringing isolated rain and thunderstorms to the mountains and inland areas, with hail possible. Temperatures will reach 35C inland, around 30...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to raise interest rates on September 10 for the second and final time in its shortest cycle of rate increases in 15 years, according to ...

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers’ journalism without permission to train their AI systems. ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to give 48 hours’ notice before engaging in any activity on the site of a triumphal arch it wants to build near ...

At least two people were killed and dozens injured on Friday after an explosion at a military barracks in the Bolivian municipality of Viacha, about 30 km (20 miles) from La Paz, ...

Cyprus-based venture capital firm 33East has invested in Piney, a Cyprus-founded property operations startup that has raised €1.6 million as it expands from Europe into the United States. 33East said Piney’...

It was difficult not to laugh at reports about deputies and officials discussing how they could stop recipients of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from going to casinos! According to ...

Everyone knows Wall Street calls a 20 per cent drop in a major index a bear market. But what do you call it when the index posts big ​gains and losses ...

Greece is among the eurozone economies least exposed to the impact of prolonged high interest rates, despite its heavy public debt burden, according to a report by Morningstar DBRS. The ...

European Union member states produced 34.4 billion litres of beer throughout 2025, according to a report from Eurostat. The output figures represent a slight decline of 0.7 per cent when compared with the ...

The number of British young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) fell below 1 million in the second ​quarter of 2026 after hitting its highest since 2013 in ‌the first three ...

Fifteen new prison guards have been hired and another 14 recruited as the justice ministry seeks to address staffing shortages at the central prisons, where two guards have been assaulted in ...

Children’s school bus fares have been set at €5 per month or €30 for the whole school year, the transport ministry said on Friday night, while also announcing that children belonging ...

The labour ministry on Friday announced that it will be hiring 45 new fixed-term employees to move forward with the implementation of the pension reform, which it hopes to execute at ...

The two bodies which were recovered on Friday from the wreck of a ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia were identified as Serife Ozdemir and Nazmiye Ozbolat, Turkish ...

Ozdemir Berova was on Friday named Turkish Cypriot acting ‘transport minister’, temporarily replacing the dismissed Erhan Arikli, while three top officials from inside the same ‘ministry’ were also relieved of ...

The government is hoping for a political decision to be made on whether it will be able to join Europe’s border-free Schengen zone “as soon as possible”, President Nikos ...

The government is “in talks with energy giants” over the allocation of the rights to research and drill for natural gas in blocks of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which ...