Bank of Cyprus reported a 4% increase in full-year net profit on Tuesday and said it would propose the distribution of €211 million in dividends and a €30 million share buyback, representing a 50% payout ratio.

Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one of around a dozen internment camps in Cyprus that held tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and head for “the homeland.”

Defense Minister Nikos Dendias visited the UAE on Monday, accompanied by Vice Admiral Dimitrios-Eleftherios Kataras, chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff.

US and Russian officials held more than four hours of talks in Riyadh on Tuesday, their first on ending the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv and its European allies watched anxiously from the sidelines and Moscow raised a major new demand.

A particularly cold snap will bring low temperatures and snow in mountainous areas of Greece in two waves starting Wednesday, the country’s National Weather Service (EMY) said in an emergency weather bulletin on Tuesday.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told US President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg on Tuesday that Europe wants to work with the US in talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war.

The European Commission is ready to move quickly with proposals to  ease budget rules to facilitate increased defence spending by member states, EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Tuesday.

The interest of domestic and foreign institutional investors in the development of new residential buildings has become multidimensional.

The sound of hammer blows and welding drifted from the Skaramangas Shipyard near Athens last month as workers repaired the bow of a large tanker, while other vessels waited to be fixed in a dry dock nearby.

Greece’s two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council began at the outset of 2025.

Greece’s coastal shipping fleet numbers 155 ships owned by 33 companies.

This is almost twice as many flights as five years ago, which is also reflected in the large increase in arrivals and receipts from America.

Recent seismic activity in Santorini has sparked concerns about a potential volcanic eruption. However, seismologists Dimitris Papanikolaou and Kostas Papazachos clarified that the region is not facing the formation of a new volcano.

Due to the ongoing strike organized by the Athens Daily Newspaper Journalists’ Union (ESIEA), Kathimerini English Edition will only cover breaking news and feature articles previously published in its print edition.published in its print edition.

The Athens University of Economics and Business has announced its first undergraduate course that will be 100% in English. 

The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the Latin “optimus,” or “best,” as in “make the best of things.” Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points.

By Saturday, banks had approved applications for 584 mortgages subsidized under the “My Home II” program in its first month, for a total sum of 65 million euros, according to figures released by the Hellenic Developmental Bank, which is responsible for managing the program. 

Cypriot Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou admitted inadequate monitoring of the fuel market and the existence of a black market for photovoltaic permits.

Tax revenues were 409 million euros above the target in January 2025, according to the budget execution report announced on Monday by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance.

The Ministry of Tourism has launched a new initiative called “Sustainable Mountain Tourism Destination,” which seeks to strengthen tourism at Greece’s alpine destinations.