7+ hour, 38+ min ago  (696+ words) Global passenger demand increased by 2. 1 per cent year-on-year in March, despite significant disruptions in key regions, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The figures showed that total capacity declined by 1. 7 per cent compared with March 2025, while the global…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (339+ words) Press freedom is not going through its best of its days either in Cyprus or internationally, chairman of Union of Cyprus Journalists Giorgos Frangos said on Sunday, stressing that Cyprus" plummet down the World Press Freedom Index should concern us…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1104+ words) EU-funded researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk " precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful enough to help lift a patient. Lucia Beccai, an expert in soft robotics at the Italian Institute of Technology…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1263+ words) REGULARS will know that our establishment was never a fan of Odysseas Michaelides, not even in the days when his popularity was sky-high, when the media celebrated him like a political messiah and assorted politicians treated his word as gospel....

4+ hour, 26+ min ago  (1361+ words) A Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) constitutes another landmark in the long-evolving defence and security ties between Cyprus and France. It comes amid shifting geopolitical sands in the volatile region of the eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, as the island…...

19+ hour, 58+ min ago  (315+ words) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government could ban pro-Palestinian marches in some circumstances because of the "cumulative effect" the demonstrations had on the Jewish community after two Jewish men were stabbed in London on Wednesday. Starmer told the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (348+ words) Pro-federal solution, centre-left political party the CTP will form the north's ruling coalition after the next legislative elections, according to the results of a poll released on Wednesday. The poll was conducted by CMIRS, and asked 500 Turkish Cypriots for their…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (404+ words) The Turkish Cypriot legislature on Monday voted unanimously to withdraw a bill aiming to cut payments of the cost-of-living allowance to public sector workers which had earlier provoked a general strike and seen thousands of protesters descend on the legislature…...

21+ hour, 45+ min ago  (785+ words) Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on Saturday warned Turkish Cypriot "prime minister" Unal Ustel against delaying the next legislative election, saying that doing so will serve to harm Ustel"s party, the UBP, more. He said the CTP,…...

22+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1087+ words) Let's take, for instance, the "poiitarides' " or "itinerant poets', as Nicoletta Demetriou calls them. "Poiitarika' (the category name for their works) were "long narrative songs," she explains, "the closest thing in English might be "ballads" " like the old broadsheet ballads…...