Fewer than one in 10 Greeks verified the news and other information they found online in 2025, according to new figures from Eurostat, making Greece the least likely country in the 27-nation bloc to double-check what shows up on...
Cyprus and Greece recorded the lowest suicide rates in the European Union in 2023, according to new figures released by Eurostat. The two Mediterranean countries stood far below the EU average, with Cyprus reporting 3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents...
The Phoenicians are most famous today for being excellent sailors who dominated much of the trade in the ancient Mediterranean. Unsurprisingly, they established numerous colonies to help them expand their trade and influence. One particularly notable island that they...
Less than four miles from the sea in the valley of the Maroni River in southern Cyprus lies one of the most significant Neolithic sites in the Mediterranean. Choirokoitia (also Khirokitia, Greek: Χοιροκοιτία) is the best-preserved Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement...
The captain and seven crew members of the ferry that capsized off Kyrenia, also known as Girne, in the Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, leaving eight people dead and seventeen passengers missing, have been arrested, the Turkish Cypriot leader Ünal Üstel announced.
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At least eight people have died and seventeen people are missing after a ferry from Kyrenia carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. The occupied territory’s prime minister, Ünal Üstel, told the state-run TRT news...
A Greek-Cypriot businessman, Dimis Mavropoulos, has died after two boats ran aground and sank off Cape Greko in Cyprus on Saturday amid stormy weather and rough seas.
Mavropoulos, his partner, and his daughter were aboard the boat, when the vessel...
British intelligence and military officials fear that a luxury hotel in Cyprus could be used as a hub for spying on the nearby Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri, The Telegraph reports. According to the newspaper, intelligence and military...
An IVF scandal in Turkish-occupied Cyprus may be significantly more widespread than initially reported, with up to thirty children potentially conceived using sperm or egg donors different from those their parents believed they had selected.
The reported figure marks a...
Fossil fuels accounted for nearly 30% of electricity production in the European Union (EU) in 2025, while renewable energy remained the bloc's leading source of power.
Preliminary Eurostat data show that fossil fuels generated 29.6% of EU electricity during the...
