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Cyprus recorded an enterprise birth rate of 9.7 per cent and a death rate of 7.2 per cent in 2023, according to Eurostat data released this week, showing that more companies were created ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday stressed that he does not “intervene in matters of the judiciary”, after Israeli property developer Simon Aykut had the previous day pled guilty to a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said he had discussed the Cyprus problem with United States President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the summit on the future of Gaza in ...

The International Labour Organization faces “critical” cash flow problems and could abolish up to 295 posts – about 8% of its workforce – if the United States and other countries do not pay their ...

“The thing that comforts me,” said Jeff Boudier at Hugging Face, the leading open platform for AI builders, “is that the internet was built on the ashes of the over-investment ...

Kevin De Bruyne tucked away two penalties as Belgium came back after conceding an early goal to beat Wales 4-2 away in their World Cup qualifier on Monday, moving them ...

The outage of government websites that left ministries without internet access on Tuesday morning was caused by a cable failure, not a cyberattack, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. “[The ...

Marcus Rashford has shown in training that he has all the tools to become one of the world’s best players but the forward must improve his numbers on the ...

With artworks installed, performances ready to unfold and a wave of creative energy sweeping through the region, Larnaca Biennale 2025 officially opens this week. Under the theme Along Lines and Traces, ...

Thirty people were arrested in Limassol on charges of illegal work, with five of them being detained for residing in the Republic illegally, police said on Tuesday. The remaining 25 people ...

President Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed peacemaker who has campaigned for a Nobel Prize, finally got a camera-ready diplomatic victory on Monday as world leaders flew to Egypt for the signing ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) has launched a public tender for the provision of services to assess needs, draft technical specifications, and supervise the implementation of its ...

The weather will be mainly clear on Tuesday, although some areas of the island may experience increased cloudiness at times. Temperatures will range from up to 18 degrees Celsius in the ...

The European Union’s business economy comprised around 33.1 million enterprises in 2023, employing 162.2 million people, according to Eurostat a report released this week. These enterprises generated a net turnover exceeding €38.5 trillion, ...

Cyprus recorded an employment rate of 79.8 per cent in 2024, surpassing the European Union’s 78 per cent target set under the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan for 2030. Eurostat reported ...

Allwyn International AG and OPAP S.A. on Monday announced that their boards of directors have approved a merger through an all-share transaction valued at €16 billion, creating the world’s ...

Total government employment in Cyprus reached 52,530 persons in September 2025, showing a marginal decline of 50 employees, or 0.1 per cent, compared with the same month last year, according to the statistical service (...

The European Union has backed calls for a single, international strategy for the decarbonisation of shipping, saying that the adoption of new measures by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) could ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has released a new educational video on crypto-assets as part of a joint campaign with other European supervisory authorities. The move comes in ...

Transforming the transport system is an ongoing effort with decarbonisation being one of the major challenges, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday. Speaking at a round table discussion in ...

For too long, the Republic’s defence spending was rather random. This was partly because only a few countries would sell arms to Cyprus, mainly Russia and France, and partly ...

Venezuela’s government said on Monday it will close its embassies in Norway and Australia and open new ones in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe as part of a restructuring of ...

Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Monday under a ceasefire deal and Israel sent home busloads of Palestinian detainees, as US President Donald Trump declared the ...

Suspected Islamic State-backed rebels killed 19 civilians in an overnight attack in eastern Congo, two local officials said on Monday, deepening insecurity in the mineral-rich region. The attack, believed to have ...