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World

Newsroom bomb threats follow escalating European flight hoaxes

Newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria received emailed bomb threats on Friday from a purported "Mikhail Andropov", claiming responsibility for...
Local

“I was scared. Radio wasn’t my dream,” says Cyprus English-language radio pioneer

John Vickers, whose voice kept a generation of Cypriots company at night on CyBC’s ‘Request Time’, has been honoured...
Local

Police still investigating leak of Demosthenous morgue photo

Police are still carrying out a disciplinary investigation into the leak of a photograph of the body of murder...
Opinion

Hatred can’t hide its glee

What happens to a society when violence no longer needs to hide, and starts being paraded as an achievement...
World

Surveillance and economic pressure undermine Greek media freedom, report finds

Greece presents a revealing question for modern democracies: what happens when the institutions designed to hold political power to...
Local

Social media now Cypriots’ top source for news, survey finds

Social media has become Cypriots' leading source of news, with 73 per cent of citizens now turning to social...
Opinion

The story travelled. The credit didn’t.

The story about the old Othello cinema in Nicosia didn't just spring up out of nowhere on the news...
Opinion

The decline of reading is a business decision

We are consuming more information than any generation in history and understanding less of it. The OECD's second Survey of...
Opinion

Don’t disturb RIK, it’s on holiday

Monday, 3 August 2026, 11:24am, and RIK is airing a repeat of a programme called "Musical Stories." The Cypriot...
Local

Cyprus intelligence chief’s Beirut trip: what Lebanese media report

A Cyprus government source has confirmed that Tasos Tzionis, Director of the Cyprus Intelligence Service (KYP), visited Lebanon and...
Opinion

Phileleftheros will not tolerate baseless, sweeping accusations

Phileleftheros has a long history, built on principles, values and freedom of speech. It has stood on democratic foundations,...
Op-eds

When grief becomes clickbait: Why Cyprus needs legal boundaries on death reporting

By George Isaia* A race for clicks at the expense of human dignity The commercialisation of human grief by sections of...
Economy

The TV mess was 15 years in the making, following €10 million auction in 2010

The uproar over Cyprus's transition to high-definition television is not some sudden problem. It is the chronicle of a...
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