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25 May, 2025
 

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Coronavirus numbers fly off the charts again

Coronavirus numbers fly off the charts again

The number of new coronavirus cases flew off the charts again on Tuesday, when health authorities announced that 152 new cases emerged among a bulk of 4,410 tests....

Greece asks EU countries to halt military exports to Turkey

Greece asks EU countries to halt military exports to Turkey

Greece has asked fellow European Union countries to halt military exports to Turkey, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday, amid a deepening dispute between the two neighbors over maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean....

Man crushed to death by his tractor

Man crushed to death by his tractor

A 72-year-old man was crushed to death by the tractor he was driving after it slid off a cliff and fell 2.5 metres...

Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit registration now open!

Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit registration now open!

The 3rd Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit 2020 will take place online tomorrow, Wednesday October 21, and participation is free of charge. The Summit will seek to highlight significant issues and particularities of today’s world, while addressing the heightened needs for specialized knowledge against the backdrop of our ever-changing reality. ...

Greece, Albania agree to go to Hague over territorial waters

Greece, Albania agree to go to Hague over territorial waters

Greece and Albania have agreed to petition the International Court of Justice in The Hague to delimit their maritime zones, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday, during a visit to Tirana....

Cyprus-Greece-Egypt summit to 'send messages in all directions'

Cyprus-Greece-Egypt summit to 'send messages in all directions'

The strengthening of ties and cooperation between Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt sends strong messages regarding the determination of the three countries to work together for peace and stability in the region, deputy government spokesman Panayiotis Sentonas said on Tuesday. ...

EC: Cyprus, Malta golden passport schemes in violation of EU law

EC: Cyprus, Malta golden passport schemes in violation of EU law

The European Commission launched infringement procedures against Cyprus and Malta on Tuesday in response to their ‘golden passport’ schemes, and allowed a two-month period for the countries to respond in writing to the Commission’s warning letter....

Anastasiades, Tatar to meet next week

Anastasiades, Tatar to meet next week

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will meet the newly-elected leader of the Turkish-Cypriot community Ersin Tatar next week for the first time, according to remarks by the latter on Tuesday....

Heavens to open up suddenly in Cyprus

Heavens to open up suddenly in Cyprus

An upper-air disturbance is causing significant changes in flow direction over the eastern Mediterranean, with cloudy skies and chances of rain expected in the afternoonm, possibly including hail...

Police get to work on passport scandal

Police get to work on passport scandal

Cypriot police appear to have their plate full with three different probes into alleged corruption in the golden passport scheme, with investigators facing their biggest challenge by a shocking Al Jazeera video that dealt the fatal blow in the country’s Citizenship by Investment Programme...

Consumables suspected after cataract fail

Consumables suspected after cataract fail

Cypriot health officials are trying to find out what caused a serious infection to eight patients who had cataract surgery in Nicosia last week, with reports suggesting medical consumables may have introduced a dangerous bacterium that could cause loss of eyesight or worse...

43 new coronavirus cases detected in Cyprus

43 new coronavirus cases detected in Cyprus

The Cyprus health ministry announced 43 new coronavirus cases on Monday, which emerged after 2,558 tests and raised total known cases since the outbreak of the virus in March to 2,687. ...

Despo Lefkariti at Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit 2020

Despo Lefkariti at Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit 2020

After her studies in Marketing in London, she started her career in the family petroleum company Petrolina Hellas in Greece. In 1985 she retuned to Cyprus and founded DELEMA, one of the largest and most creative communication agencies in Cyprus, affiliated with MCCANN Worldgroup, the largest and most effective communication network in the world. She is the president of FED (Self-Regulation association) and SDEK (communication agencies association). She also served as vice-president of the European Association of Young Entrepreneurs YES for Europe....

Greece finalizes plan to build wall on border with Turkey

Greece finalizes plan to build wall on border with Turkey

Greece's government says it has finalized plans to extend a wall along its northeast border with Turkey, over concerns that migrants may try to stage mass crossings into the European Union country....

Anastasiades and Tatar to meet in Nicosia UN premises

Anastasiades and Tatar to meet in Nicosia UN premises

The new Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday accepted President Anastasiades’ proposal for a get together, that is set to take place in UN premises in Nicosia....

Golden passports pushed forward in Commission agenda

Golden passports pushed forward in Commission agenda

After the Al Jazeera revelations, the Cyprus Investment Program is being pushed into the European Commission’s discussion agenda....

Athens bracing for a protracted crisis

Athens bracing for a protracted crisis

Athens is preparing on both a diplomatic and military level for a protracted crisis in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean until at least the end of the year when the European Union’s ultimatum to Turkey expires in December. Other crucial political milestones will be the US elections on November 3 and the void created until the president is sworn in on January 20....

Megatrends that will shape the future

Megatrends that will shape the future

EY’s recent report, Megatrends 2020 and beyond, examines the new "megatrends", the forces that created them and their potential impact...

Nicos Anastasiades congratulates Ersin Tatar

Nicos Anastasiades congratulates Ersin Tatar

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has congratulated new Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, expressing hope that the winner of the election would show goodwill and respond positively to a new UN initiative to solve the Cyprus issue...

Cypriot minister has one regret over passports

Cypriot minister has one regret over passports

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides, who oversaw Cyprus' disgraced golden passport scheme while he was serving as interior minister, says he should have pushed harder to end the program much sooner...

Cars engulfed in flames on Nicosia roads

Cars engulfed in flames on Nicosia roads

Fire fighters responded to an incident in downtown Nicosia on Monday morning, when a car in motion caught fire, while a similar incident took place in the western part of the capital a day earlier...

Turkish Cypriots elect Tatar as new leader

Turkish Cypriots elect Tatar as new leader

Turkish Cypriots elected a new leader on Sunday, Ersin Tatar, reaffirming strong ties with Ankara and signaling possibly new developments in the Cyprus Problem...

Turkish Cypriots head to the polls

Turkish Cypriots head to the polls

Turkish Cypriot voters head to the polls on Sunday for a second time to choose between the incumbent leader and his challenger in a highly contested election...

Cyprus’ daily count surpasses 200

Cyprus’ daily count surpasses 200

Newly detected coronavirus infections in the Republic of Cyprus reached a whopping 202 on Saturday, the highest daily count ever recorded on the island since the outbreak of the pandemic, with additional measures being rolled out on Sunday starting with Limassol...

Divided island braces for Dherynia protest

Divided island braces for Dherynia protest

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has called on Greek Cypriot bikers to be on their best behaviour during Saturday’s demonstration in Dherynia, warning that Turkish anti-protesters would look for an opportunity to use any unruly action as a pretext to start a riot...

Local biker dies in Liopetri frontal crash

Local biker dies in Liopetri frontal crash

A local biker was killed in a road accident Friday night following a collision in rural Famagusta district...

Limassol murder suspects in custody

Limassol murder suspects in custody

The suspect in last weekend’s murder has been arrested along with an alleged accomplice, with reports saying the two men had gone to the victim’s home in Limassol to rob her...

Numbers of new Covid cases maintain steep streak

Numbers of new Covid cases maintain steep streak

The coronavirus pandemic in the Republic of Cyprus wasn’t looking to steady down on Friday, when 94 cases were detected after 3,084 tests were conducted....

Michalis Persianis at Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit 2020

Michalis Persianis at Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit 2020

Michalis Persianis has been Corporate Affairs Director at Bank of Cyprus since 2015. ...

Anastasiades satisfied after EC 'deplores' Turkey's actions

Anastasiades satisfied after EC 'deplores' Turkey's actions

The President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades expressed satisfaction in view of the EU Council’s condemnation of Turkey’s “renewed unilateral and provocative actions” in the eastern Mediterranean....

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