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The two-day search and rescue exercise Artemis 2025 has been completed, testing the country’s readiness to respond to a major earthquake, civil defence spokesman Panayiotis Liasides said on Saturday. The ...

Some four thousand years ago, Cyprus was home to the oldest perfume factory in the Mediterranean, located in the village of Pyrgos, east of Limassol. Abandoned following an earthquake, one ...

Pension reform bills will be submitted in 2026 rather than the previously stated target of the end of 2025, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Saturday. He said the delay is linked ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava after two days of talks with an envoy for ...

Players heading off to the Africa Cup of Nations should depart with the blessing of their respective clubs according to Everton manager David Moyes, but his viewpoint might not be ...

Lionel Messi’s tour of India kicked off chaotically on Saturday as fans threw objects, ripped up seats and invaded the pitch at Kolkata’s Salt Lake stadium after the ...

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, proposed on Saturday that Cyprus MEP Fidias Panayiotou should become president of the European Union. The suggestion came shortly after a ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote areas worldwide. It also has caused ...

A total of 3,945 people have been granted ‘citizenship’ in the north in the last three years while 573 gun licences have also been issued, according to ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz, it ...

Prisoner found dead in central prison A 23-year-old Syrian national, identified as Abdul Kader Almfalani, currently serving a sentence at Nicosia central prison, has died, police confirmed on Saturday. He ...

Striking teachers should think of the message they are sending students, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Reform, he said, promotes the worthy teacher – those who are selfless and ...

Women in Tech Cyprus will open the new year with a small community gathering in Limassol, aiming to carry forward the momentum built over the past year around women’s ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and ...

Saturday’s weather will be mostly fine with occasional patches of increased cloud. Winds will be light to moderate, variable in direction at 3 to 4 on the Beaufort scale. The sea ...

By Nektarios Michail The last decade has been extremely good for most investments, especially those with higher risk. As the table below shows, investments in any diversified high-risk investment product ...

By Naomi Braithwaite When Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney attended Variety’s Power of Women event on October 30 in Los Angeles, she may have delivered an empowering and inspirational speech, but ...

The roof of Berengaria is once again taking its final shape, marking a historic milestone for the site. Its complete replacement represents one of the most decisive and emotionally significant ...

A new group exhibition opening at NiMAC this Friday begins from two key reference points: a 1943 statement by John Burns in the Daily Mail describing the Thames river as “liquid ...

Cypriot businesses are continuing to invest, innovate, and remain resilient in the face of geopolitical tensions and global trade disruptions, according to the latest European Investment Bank (EIB) investment survey ...

Rapper and entertainment mogul Snoop Dogg has joined Team USA as its first-ever honorary coach, a role the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee hopes will sprinkle a little West ...

The European Central Bank will leave interest rates unchanged on December 18 and keep them there through next year, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters, as inflation is ...

OpenAI has warned that its upcoming artificial intelligence models could pose a “high” cybersecurity risk, as their capabilities advance rapidly. The AI models might either develop working zero-day remote exploits ...

Farmers in Cyprus will take to the streets on Thursday next week to protest against the “new architecture” of the European Union’s common agricultural policy. Thomas Thoma, the union ...

If any evidence of the government’s scandalously slapdash approach to the country’s water shortage problem was required, it was provided by reports that the ministries of interior and ...