TRUMP TELLS COUNTRIES TO QUIT ICC, BUT FEW FOLLOW HIS LEAD

TRUMP TELLS COUNTRIES TO QUIT ICC, BUT FEW FOLLOW HIS LEAD - Cy Mail 25/9 by Reuters News Service


President Donald Trump urged countries to leave the International Criminal Court immediately, calling it “evil” and “a rogue institution,” but only Naoero, a tiny Pacific island nation formerly known as Nauru, has followed suit during the UN General Assembly this week.

Trump’s appeal capped an escalating US campaign against the Hague-based court, which Washington says oversteps its authority by claiming jurisdiction over citizens of countries, including the United States and Israel, that have not ratified its founding treaty known as the Rome Statute.

While a handful of countries have moved to leave the ICC, many governments, particularly in Europe, have rallied to defend the Netherlands-based court as a cornerstone of international justice. Parties to the statute include 125 countries.

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EU, STUDENTS IN CYPRUS - 43% DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE BASIC SKILLS IN SCIENCE, READING COMPREHENSION, MATHEMATICS - FIRST IN HASTY ANSWERS

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EU, STUDENTS IN CYPRUS - 43% DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE BASIC SKILLS IN SCIENCE, READING COMPREHENSION, MATHEMATICS - FIRST IN HASTY ANSWERS - Filenews 25/9 by Despina Psyllou


The results of the 15-year-olds of Cyprus in the OECD's international PISA 2025 survey are sad once again. Our students are last in the EU in Natural Sciences and Reading Comprehension and second to last in Mathematics.

As it turned out, 43% do not even possess the basic skills in these three subjects, while this percentage is 21% in the EU. However, our teens rank first in the most rushed answers, with 25% spending less than 10 seconds on each of them.

CRIME ROUND UP

 Pafos Live 25 September 2026

A female teacher who serves in a primary school in a community in the province of Paphos complained that she was attacked by a 40-year-old owner of a furniture store.

According to her complaint, she was first verbally attacked, while then the 40-year-old, according to the complainant, hit her in the face and broke her myopia glasses. According to the information collected by the police, the businesswoman and the teacher had differences over products bought by the teacher and met yesterday morning outside the school unit to discuss and resolve their differences.

HALLOUMI BRINGS IN €364m BUT ANOTHER CYPRUS PRODUCT SELLS EVEN MORE

HALLOUMI BRINGS IN €364m BUT ANOTHER CYPRUS PRODUCT SELLS EVEN MORE - Cy Mail 25/9 by Souzana Psara



Sales of locally produced industrial goods in Cyprus rose by 3.7 per cent to €4.77 billion, with halloumi, bakery products and pharmaceuticals among the largest categories, according to statistical service (Cystat) figures released on Thursday.

Sales increased by €170.2 million from €4.60bn a year earlier, although growth slowed from the 7.3 per cent recorded in 2023, when the total had risen from €4.29bn, according to earlier Cystat figures.

Among the biggest contributors was halloumi, with local industrial units selling 46,100 tonnes worth €364.1m, compared with 41,900 tonnes valued at €338.1m a year earlier.

LIMASSOL SUPPORTS VOLUNTARY BONE MARROW DONATION - THREE-DAY ACTION IN FOUR PARTS OF THE CITY

LIMASSOL SUPPORTS VOLUNTARY BONE MARROW DONATION - THREE-DAY ACTION IN FOUR PARTS OF THE CITY - Filenews 25/9


With the message "Become a Volunteer Bone Marrow Donor", an action is taking place in Limassol, from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September, to strengthen volunteering, with the Karaiskakio Foundation promoting its timeless message "Vision of Life".

The initiative addresses an open call to citizens to be informed about voluntary bone marrow donation and the possibility of becoming a donor. The presence in four central points of Limassol gives the opportunity to more people to approach the action and take a substantial step of offering to fellow human beings.

REMINDER -THE HOLIDAYS ATE UP THE TAX RETURNS - MUST BE SUBMITTED AND PAID BY 31 OCTOBER

 

REMINDER -THE HOLIDAYS ATE UP THE TAX RETURNS - MUST BE SUBMITTED AND PAID BY 31 OCTOBER - Filenews 26/8 by Eleftheria Paizanou


A little bit of summer laziness and a little bit of a last-minute bad habit is expected to lead hundreds of taxpayers to run the last minute to submit their employee and self-employed income returns for the tax year 2025.

So far, only 24.6% of taxpayers have proceeded with the final submission of their tax returns. It is recalled that the submission of income declarations began in mid-June and will be completed [and paid] by October 31.

AS AMBASSADOR ANOLIK PREPARES TO LEAVE, HE SHARES ONE LAST STORY OF CYPRUS AND ISRAEL

AS AMBASSADOR ANOLIK PREPARES TO LEAVE, HE SHARES ONE LAST STORY OF CYPRUS AND ISRAEL - KNews 25/9 by Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

Near the end of his term, Israel’s ambassador presents a book uncovering the people, places and shared history linking the two Mediterranean neighbours.



Aphrodite and King David may sound like unlikely travelling companions. One belongs to the mythology and shores of Cyprus; the other to the history and faith of the Jewish people.

Yet when their names meet in the title of a new book, they open the door to a Mediterranean story that is much older and far more personal than modern diplomacy.