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Emirates reveals ‘Scan & Win’ contest grand winner at 2025 Cyprus Travel Expo
Cyprus Mail
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June 30, 2025
Emirates, the world’s leading international airline, successfully concluded the “Scan & Win” contest held during this year’s Cyprus Travel Expo 2025. The competition drew the attention of visitors and gave hundreds of participants the chance to...
UNEMPLOYMENT AT FIFTEEN-YEAR LOW IN CYPRUS
https://www.observercyprus.com/feed/
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June 30, 2025
Current Events After a devastating financial and economic crisis, Cyprus is showing promise with the improvement of its labor market. According to Eurostat, the rate of unemployment has dropped to being the lowest in the last fifteen years. The...
Can Indian passport holder enter Cyprus with a Schengen visa? Here's everything you need to know
DNA India
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5.What Indian Passport Holders need to Enter Cyprus To visit Cyprus, you can apply for a Cyprus short-stay visa (up to 90 days) directly. Alternatively, if you have a valid Schengen visa, you can use it to enter Cyprus, as long as it remains valid...
UK tourists could be 'banned' from Europe for three years as Foreign Office issues warning
Daily Star
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June 30, 2025
The Foreign Office has cautioned UK holidaymakers that they risk being barred from European getaways for up to three years. Following the UK's departure from the EU, UK citizens' unrestricted travel within the European Union came to a halt....
Former boxer who masterminded cocaine conspiracy then fled to Cyprus jailed
The Northern Echo
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Robert Ismay was responsible for the supply of more than 20 kilos of the class A drug into the North East between March and September in 2020. The 37-year-old, of Washingwell Lane in Whickham, was arrested last September and charged to appear at...
Foreign Office warns UK tourists risk being 'banned' from Europe holidays 'for three years'
Birmingham Live
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June 30, 2025
The Foreign Office has warned UK tourists risk being "banned" from European holidays for THREE YEARS. With the UK’s exit from the EU, UK nationals’ freedom of movement within the European Union came to an end as well. However, they are still able...
Cyprus economic index edges up but growth momentum eases
Cyprus Mail
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June 27, 2025
The Cyprus Composite Leading Economic Index (CCLEI), compiled and published by the Economics Research Centre of the University of Cyprus (CypERC), recorded a year-on-year increase of 2.3 per cent in June 2025. This follows revised increases of 2.6...
US holidaymakers descend on Europe as overtourism fears mount
The Financial Times
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June 29, 2025
Europe’s tourist hotspots are braced for a record number of visitors this summer as holidaymakers spurn the US and the Middle East, adding to growing concerns about overtourism on the continent. Analysts say that while European holidaymakers are...
Flights at major tourist destination cancelled as wildfires erupt near airport
Daily Star
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June 29, 2025
A major airport in Turkey has had to cancel flights due to a raging wildfire which has caused chaos this evening. Take-offs and landings were suspended at Adnan Menderes Airport, a hub which serves tourist-hotspot and coastal city Izmir. The...
Israeli travelers again face astronomical air fares for peak summer season
The Times of Israel
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June 29, 2025
With the war with Iran seemingly over, Israel reopened its airspace last week, days before the school summer holidays begin and the peak travel season takes off. However, with only few foreign airlines so far restarting their services to Tel Aviv...
Cyprus serves as lifeline amid Israel-Iran crisis
Knews Kathimerini
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As the Israel-Iran crisis reached its peak over the past two weeks, with direct military confrontation and U.S. involvement, Cyprus once again played a small but effective role in the safe evacuation of civilians. These evacuations, routed through...
Cyprus Business Now: taxes, workforce, electric vehicle scheme, seafarers
Cyprus Mail
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June 26, 2025
Tax incentives offered to attract international and Cypriot professionals to Cyprus have resulted in €406.6 million in tax exemptions over a three-year period, benefiting 25,277 employees who moved to the island for work between 2021 and 2023. The...
Oh, the romance of living in the Cyprus countryside
Cyprus Mail
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June 29, 2025
Diary of an exhausted amateur rural dweller In recent years, increasing numbers of us have been moving outside city limits for two main reasons – cost of land and serenity – and as commuting is supposedly becoming faster with road upgrades, most...
Denied B1/B2 and F-1 visa, woman shares painful struggle to reunite with boyfriend
Financial Express
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A 24-year-old woman from Cyprus has taken to Reddit to share her emotional and complex journey of multiple US visa rejections, shedding light on the often opaque and stressful process faced by many applicants. Posting on Reddit, the woman...
Police in dark, tourists at risk
Cyprus Mail
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June 29, 2025
Years after EU, Cyprus follows scheme to create fun but safe environments at venues Cyprus this week confirmed it did not join a mostly global scheme to protect people in nightspots until late March 2025, leaving police in the dark and tourists at...
Love Mural Festival Returns to Cyprus with Art, Music and Community Spirit
Famagusta Gazette
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June 29, 2025
Home Cyprus Love Mural Festival Returns to Cyprus with Art, Music and Community Spirit The Love Mural Festival 2025 will bring its traveling celebration of creativity and connection to the mountain village of Galata on June 29, transforming the...
11 hotel groups go private on water with €3M state-backed desalination plan
Knews Kathimerini
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Cyprus’ hotel industry is making a splash, literally. In response to mounting water concerns, 11 major hotel groups across Limassol, Larnaca, and Paphos have filed official applications to install small private desalination units on their...
Travel expert discusses Cyprus holiday safety as tensions rise in Middle East
Nottingham Evening Post
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June 25, 2025
Travel expert Simon Calder has offered his perspective on the safety of visiting Cyprus amidst growing tensions between Iran and Israel. Mr Calder mentioned that he's been swamped with queries from worried holidaymakers with impending trips to...
Scots soldiers on ‘standby’ in Cyprus amid threat from Iran and fears of more Middle East conflicts
The Scottish Sun
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June 27, 2025
SCOTS troops will today fly to Cyprus to be put on "standby" for more Middle East conflicts. Soldiers from The Royal Regiment of Scotland will jet out for a two-year deployment described as a “high-readiness standby formation”. 2 Scottish soldiers...
Holidaymakers to Turkey, Spain, Greece and Cyprus in Foreign Office warning
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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June 25, 2025
With the school holidays here, thousands of families will be preparing to jet off to sunnier climes. But they have been issued a stark warning over the current temperatures in favoured destinations. The Foreign Office has issued advice for those...