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18 November, 2024
 

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Erdogan keeps suspense as he helicopters to drillship

Erdogan keeps suspense as he helicopters to drillship

Suspense in Nicosia and Athens were unceremoniously put on hold on Tuesday when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the launch of the country’s Abdulhamid Han drill ship in contested waters off Cyprus but was in no hurry to share coordinates...

EY and Hult International Business School announce new Masters in Sustainability, free for all EY people

EY and Hult International Business School announce new Masters in Sustainability, free for all EY people

The EY organization, in association with Hult International Business School, today announces a fully accredited Masters in Sustainability, dedicated to EY people (312,000) exclusively. It will be free of charge and available to all, regardless of rank, tenure or location....

Afternoon rain not ruled out for Cyprus

Afternoon rain not ruled out for Cyprus

A weather model is predicting rain for Cyprus on Tuesday afternoon with similar chances on the following day, with temperatures staying hot throughout the island but less unbearable compared to last month...

FBI searches Mar-a-Lago in document probe

FBI searches Mar-a-Lago in document probe

Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort...

Young woman on bicycle dies in Limassol accident

Young woman on bicycle dies in Limassol accident

An unidentified female on a bicycle was killed Monday evening when she was struck by a vehicle, which also crashed into a utility pole causing a blackout in a borough in Limassol...

Police rule out foul play in fish trader’s death

Police rule out foul play in fish trader’s death

Paphos police are investigating the death of a fish trader whose body was found Sunday morning on a local beach, with officials learning he had a broken nose but ruling foul play...

Greek phone spying scandal refuels Cypriot rumors

Greek phone spying scandal refuels Cypriot rumors

Fast developments in Greece over that country’s wiretapping scandal prompted political opposition in Cyprus to call for an end to a code of silence on the island over growing suspicions of unlawful surveillance...

Divided Cyprus marks Tillyria bombing

Divided Cyprus marks Tillyria bombing

Dozens of buses in Cyprus have crossed into an abandoned fishing village where Turkish Cypriots go every year to commemorate Turkish bombing of Tillyria, an event in 1964 remembered by Greek Cypriots as a failure to crush a rebellion against law and order during intercommunal violence...

Cyprus scores monkeypox jabs ahead of schedule

Cyprus scores monkeypox jabs ahead of schedule

A handful of close contacts in the Republic of Cyprus were cleared for an urgent monkeypox jab on Sunday after vaccines arrived ahead of schedule, but the country providing the vaccines was not named as doctors in the European Union have been turning people away due to a serious shortage...

Cyprus detects two more cases of monkeypox

Cyprus detects two more cases of monkeypox

Two more cases of monkeypox have been detected in the Republic of Cyprus, bringing the total of known infected patients to three males who all traveled abroad...

Nexters reports record-breaking quarterly revenues of $126 million

Nexters reports record-breaking quarterly revenues of $126 million

Nexters, an international game development company headquartered in Limassol, today released financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2022 and announced the changes to the board of directors: ...

Realtor employee suffocates under pile of dirt

Realtor employee suffocates under pile of dirt

A land subdivision employee lost his life under a pile of dirt on Friday in Nicosia district, when he fell into a hole after soil suddenly collapsed...

Defendant in assault video says trial not fair

Defendant in assault video says trial not fair

A man accused of assaulting a black woman holding a baby in Larnaca is asking for a mistrial, with his lawyer saying media pundits and state officials violated his client’s right to a fair trial...

Grief over fire at Istanbul’s Balikli Greek Hospital

Grief over fire at Istanbul’s Balikli Greek Hospital

A fire broke out on the roof of Istanbul’s Balikli Greek Hospital on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 100 patients and staff...

SBA judge faces dilemma in fake cocaine case

SBA judge faces dilemma in fake cocaine case

The attorneys of two men, who were arrested in Akrotiri in connection with a cocaine shipment investigation, are asking the SBA judge not to hand over their clients to the drug squad of the Republic of Cyprus, arguing their arrestable offenses were committed on British Base soil and had nothing to do with drugs...

Fuel a whopping 60% more expensive in 2022

Fuel a whopping 60% more expensive in 2022

Cyprus Minister of Health, Michalis Hadjipantela, is in contact with his counterparts in neighboring countries, asking them to supply Cyprus with vaccines for monkeypox, the Minister's Communications Advisοr Konstantinos Athanasiou told CNA....

49 year old man extorted out of over 40,000 euros

49 year old man extorted out of over 40,000 euros

Police on Thursday urged members of the public to be vigilant with regard to their online transactions after a 49-year-old man reported he was scammed out of over €40,000 after receiving advice on social media from a person he did not know on how to invest in cryptocurrency....

Tourist traffic in Cyprus at 75% of 2019, says Deputy Minister of Tourism

Tourist traffic in Cyprus at 75% of 2019, says Deputy Minister of Tourism

Tourist traffic in Cyprus, so far, has reached 75% of 2019, Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios said on Thursday, adding that many more tourists from other markets such as Germany, Switzerland, France and Greece choose Cyprus as their destination....

Inflation in Cyprus creeps close to 11% in July

Inflation in Cyprus creeps close to 11% in July

Inflation in July 2022, hit the double-digit mark, recording an increase of 10.9%, with the Consumer Price Index increasing by 1.39 units and reaching 113.63 units compared to 112.24 units in June 2022....

Rainwater everywhere contains unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals'

Rainwater everywhere contains unsafe levels of 'forever chemicals'

Rainwater everywhere on Earth has been found to contain dangerous levels of man-made 'forever chemicals' linked to cancer and other illnesses, a study has found....

EC promoting bi-communal solar energy power plant

EC promoting bi-communal solar energy power plant

The European Commission has been promoting the idea of creating a bi-communal solar power plant that would “contribute to the energy needs of both communities”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency....

Death no longer as it seems after scientists 'revive' dead pigs

Death no longer as it seems after scientists 'revive' dead pigs

Scientists announced Wednesday they have restored blood flow and cell function throughout the bodies of pigs that were dead for an hour, in a breakthrough experts say could mean we need to update the definition of death itself....

Black student in Cyprus inspired after racial attack

Black student in Cyprus inspired after racial attack

An international student in the Republic of Cyprus says he wants to “change the world for the better” after he was battered by an intoxicated man in Limassol during a racially-charged attack last month...

July unemployment down 25% compared to same period in 2021

July unemployment down 25% compared to same period in 2021

Unemployment in Cyprus decreased by 25.4% in July 2022, compared to the same month of 2021. According to data published by the Statistical Service on Wednesday, the unemployed persons, registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of July 2022, reached 14,145 persons, down from 18,950 registered in July 2021....

China retaliates with military drills off Taiwan's coast after Pelosi visit

China retaliates with military drills off Taiwan's coast after Pelosi visit

China kicked off its biggest-ever military exercises in the seas around Taiwan following US politician Nancy Pelosi's visit....

Exness donates three fully-equipped firetrucks to the Forests Department of Cyprus

Exness donates three fully-equipped firetrucks to the Forests Department of Cyprus

Cyprus-based fintech company Exness has just donated three fully-equipped firetrucks to the Forests Department of Cyprus. This donation is part of the €300,000 pledge made by Exness CEO Petr Valov in 2021, following devastating wildfires across the island....

Cyprus Police accused of ‘cooking up’ witnesses

Cyprus Police accused of ‘cooking up’ witnesses

A lawyer for a man acquitted in a drug trafficking case is calling on authorities to investigate evidence that emerged during his trial, citing unreliable witnesses getting cozy with police and violations of jailhouse protocol including late night birthday parties and consumption of illegal delicacies...

EC to fund migration infrastructure in Cyprus

EC to fund migration infrastructure in Cyprus

The European Commission has announced it will be funding new projects to support the reception, asylum process and repatriation of migrants in Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Greece, and Poland....

Cyprus scrambles after monkeypox patient’s mom speaks out

Cyprus scrambles after monkeypox patient’s mom speaks out

Health ministry officials in the Republic of Cyprus are trying to get their hands on a monkeypox vaccine, after a woman whose infected son was hospitalized told state television there were no drugs for treatment...

Images of loss and abandonment at the Kyrenia Cemetary

Images of loss and abandonment at the Kyrenia Cemetary

In the center of the city of Kyrenia on the former Gladstonos Avenue, today Iskenderun Caddesi, is the Hellenic Cemetery, a place intended for the eternal rest of Kyrenians who passed away; now it is left to the mercy of the ravages of time and people....

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