CYPRUS BREAKING NEWS

A 21-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after police found a large quantity of suspected duty-free tobacco products during a search of his home in Paphos. Officers carried out the search at around 8.30am as part of an ongoing investigation. Inside the property, they found 73 boxes of cigarettes,…

By Kyriaki Stinga and Adonis Zachariou On September 3, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgement in Case C-798/24, Jautiva , addressing the compatibility of unrestricted public access to shareholder information with European Union company law and data protection…

The House’s special committee on the law mandating public officials to declare their wealth and income (pothen esches) has requested an opinion on whether a criminal offence was committed after a former minister in the Christodoulides government failed to declare millions in his asset statements.…

The government supports implementation of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) but takes seriously the project’s economic viability and its impact on consumers, Energy Minister Michalis Damianos said on Sunday. In an interview with Kathimerini , he said calculations already carried out show the…

Cyprus has become something of a hotspot for international stand-up comedians in recent years, and we’re here for it! With the arrival of comedians travelling from abroad and a buzzing stand-up scene, this September has several exciting events in store. It is time for comedy nights in English and a…

A Greek designer with over 250 postage stamps to her credit is vying to design the next euro banknotes. Myrsini Vardopoulou, who has spent more than 20 years creating stamps for Hellenic Post, is no stranger to designing for mass circulation. Her work has featured themes from the Olympic Games to…

Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it doesn’t restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading to a loss of up to 4% of global supply, Saudi oil buyers and traders said.A further decline in Saudi flows will worsen the global supply crunch, which has already pushed…

A woman died on Saturday afternoon after her husband allegedly struck her with a power tool during a domestic dispute in Yerolakkos, the second femicide recorded in the occupied north in five days. According to Turkish Cypriot media, the couple were travelling along the Morphou to Nicosia Road near…

For many years, we were fortunate that the Larnaca local council provided free parking just before the promenade. You could always rely on finding a parking space in Larnaca. Unfortunately, the town council has now decided to convert this entire area into what appears to be the largest bus stop –…

Lithuania said that a perceived drone sighting in its airspace earlier on Sunday that prompted authorities to close Vilnius airport and NATO to summon at least one fighter jet, turned out to be a flock of birds. The air alert was lifted and the airport reopened within 38 minutes, after the NATO jet…

Police arrested 39 people on Sunday found to have been residing illegally in Cyprus, following a nationwide operation. Deportation proceedings have already been scheduled for twelve of those arrested, with the remaining 27 transferred to a shelter pending further processing. Authorities said they…

In your Sunday newspaper you have mentioned the appalling state of our prisons. Unfortunately, when our government buys a €600 thousand armoured car to wander around our little island , obviously something in our budget is wrong. Priorities! That is the message I want to send to our government!…

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will hold their last meeting before the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, September 17, with the session scheduled for 11am. Christodoulides has said the two sides do “not have a plan B”, telling Turkish Cypriot…

A 30-year-old man remained intubated in the intensive care unit at Nicosia general hospital on Sunday after a suspected explosive device detonated in the garage of his home in Sotira on Friday night. The man has had his right-hand amputated hand with injuries to both legs in the blast, which…

Scientists across Europe are combining AI, human cells and mini-organs to predict chemical harm, reducing the need for testing on animals. By Anthony King Around 150,000 animals, mostly rats and mice, are used in the EU each year to test the safety of everyday chemicals, but that is starting to…

Cyprus is trying to turn migration from something associated almost exclusively with crisis into part of the solution to the country’s labour shortages, Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides has told the Cyprus Mail , as irregular arrivals have fallen by 92 per cent from their 2022 peak. At…

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Sunday that Cyprus “retains an obligation” to preserve the memory of the fallen and missing of 1974. Speaking at the annual memorial service for the 251st Infantry Battalion in Kyrenia, held at Saint John’s church in Kornos, Charalambides said respect…

Turkey and the occupied north condemned on Sunday a decision by the United States to renew the lifting of defence restrictions on Cyprus, warning the move risks “undermining trust” between the two communities and “destabilising the region”. The Turkish foreign ministry said actions that could…

The geopolitical contest for strategic primacy across the Levantine Basin has now converged upon the seabed, centred on the execution of the Great Sea Interconnector. Conceived as a 1,208-kilometre high-voltage direct current subsea power transmission cable linking the electricity grids of Israel,…

Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 130 people from a passenger ship that sank in the Java Sea after 113 others were evacuated, the country’s search and rescue agency said, adding that six people had died. An Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people, including 30 crew members,was…