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14 May, 2025
 

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Warm congratulations from US President Joe Biden on the 61st anniversary of Cyprus independence

Warm congratulations from US President Joe Biden on the 61st anniversary of Cyprus independence

US President Joe Biden sent a congratulatory letter to President Anastasiades today on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Cyprus Republic...

Cyprus holds military parade to mark independence

Cyprus holds military parade to mark independence

The Republic of Cyprus celebrated on Friday its independence with a military parade in Nicosia, marking mark 61 years since the island gained sovereignty from the British...

Ankara expresses ire over Greek-French defense agreement

Ankara expresses ire over Greek-French defense agreement

In its first official response to the defense agreement...Turkey expressed its ire at “Greece’s maximalist claims,”...

Cyprus sees increase in migrant arrivals

Cyprus sees increase in migrant arrivals

Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas and Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson presented a Report on Migration and Asylum on Wednesday,...

Disgust over shark abuse by fishermen in Larnaca

Disgust over shark abuse by fishermen in Larnaca

Shock, disgust and disapproval erupted on social media against fishermen caught abusing a sharl in Larnaca. The revelation was made by the fishermen themselves through their posting on social media, provoking a storm of reactions....

75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program

75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program

The US Embassy held a reception yesterday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright program....

Cyprus’ top diplomat: Turkey is creating new Ottoman empire

Cyprus’ top diplomat: Turkey is creating new Ottoman empire

The foreign minister of the divided island of Cyprus is accusing Turkey’s president of attempting to promote a new Ottoman empire in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East...

Protected too late: US Officials report more than 20 extinctions

Protected too late: US Officials report more than 20 extinctions

The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas, is gone forever, according to federal officials....

Sarkozy: Convicted of illegally financing his 2012 election campaign

Sarkozy: Convicted of illegally financing his 2012 election campaign

A Paris court has found former French President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of illegally funding a 2012 election campaign....

Jury still out on UN rep after New York lunch

Jury still out on UN rep after New York lunch

Divided Cyprus’ leaders are on standby following a meeting they had together with the Secretary General, with reports saying a joint statement was past due following disagreement over specifics in assigning another UN representative on the island...

Coronaviruses: Which animal can transmit the virus to humans?

Coronaviruses: Which animal can transmit the virus to humans?

Since 2002, when we first had the SARS-CoV outbreak in China, many studies have highlighted the potential for coronaviruses that infect wildlife to spread to humans and then cause a pandemic. ...

Three-quarters of earthquake-stiken homes on Crete temporarily uninhabitable

Three-quarters of earthquake-stiken homes on Crete temporarily uninhabitable

Engineer inspections of homes damaged in Monday’s 5.8-magnitude quake earthquake on Crete have established that three-quarters of them are temporarily uninhabitable....

Rain on the way but still good amount of sunshine

Rain on the way but still good amount of sunshine

A low pressure system has moved in over Cyprus bringing chances of rain in local areas, but mixed weather is still the predominant feature with periods of sunshine and cloudy skies all the way through Sunday...

Landlord violently beaten up by angry tenant

Landlord violently beaten up by angry tenant

Police in Limassol are investigating an assault against an elderly landlord after he was viciously attacked in his workshop by an angry tenant, who has been ordered by a judge to undergo mental health assessment...

6 year old dies after surgery

6 year old dies after surgery

A six year old child died today at a private clinic in Nicosia....

EU aims for deal with Turkey to stem migrant flows to Cyprus

EU aims for deal with Turkey to stem migrant flows to Cyprus

The European Union could work out ways to stem the flow of migrants from Turkey to Cyprus and other EU nations...

Israelis emerge as targets in alleged plot in Cyprus

Israelis emerge as targets in alleged plot in Cyprus

Cyprus police are trying to connect the dots in the country’s latest contract killing investigation, with a detained suspect thought to have travelled to the island to take out Israeli businessmen who got wind of the plot and fled ahead of time...

Jiu Jitsu producers file new lawsuit

Jiu Jitsu producers file new lawsuit

The producers and director of the film Jiu Jitsu are suing the Republic of Cyprus, the Auditor General, the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency and a television station for compensation in excess of 30 million euros...

Left for dead in an abhorrent shelter

Left for dead in an abhorrent shelter

The coordinator for the Animal Rights Action Group, Anthi Mouzouri, is calling on the public to report shelters and facilities that are unsuitable for the housing of stray or abandoned animals....

No vaccine, no job

No vaccine, no job

United Airlines said on Tuesday that they were preparing to fire 593 employees who failed to submit their vaccination certificates....

37% of patients with Covid-19 have symptoms six months later

37% of patients with Covid-19 have symptoms six months later

37% of patients with Covid-19 - more than one in three - will continue to have at least one symptom after three to six months,...

Biden's Ankara pick says no two-state solution in Cyprus

Biden's Ankara pick says no two-state solution in Cyprus

Never-Trumper Jeff Flake reversed his position on the Armenian issue on Tuesday, replying with a resounding “yes” to US Senator Bob Menendez before the foreign relations committee that holds the hey to advancing his nomination to be ambassador to Turkey...

Studies: How Covid-19 can cause diabetes

Studies: How Covid-19 can cause diabetes

Covid-19 can infect pancreatic cells that produce the hormone insulin and alter their function,...

Driver boyfriend faces manslaughter in Limassol

Driver boyfriend faces manslaughter in Limassol

A young man, whose pregnant girlfriend was killed last year after he crashed their car in rural Limassol, has been ordered to stand trial on manslaughter charges...

Contract killings in Cyprus

Contract killings in Cyprus

In recent years in Cyprus, crime has increased significantly, while savage killings tend to become commonplace. Among them are several ambushes of death in persons associated with the "night"....

R&B star R. Kelley convicted of sex trafficking

R&B star R. Kelley convicted of sex trafficking

Well known R&B superstar R. Kelly was convicted on Monday of of sex trafficking and sexual harassment against young women and minors....

Women earn less than men on average

Women earn less than men on average

Women continue to earn less than men, according to data published by the Statistical Service office of Cyprus....

Hopes are dim after tripartite meeting in New York

Hopes are dim after tripartite meeting in New York

The Archbishop of Cyprus, Chrysostomos, declared today that hopes are dim after the meeting...

Four seriously injured in Gothenburg blast

Four seriously injured in Gothenburg blast

Sixteen people were injured, four of them seriously, in an explosion that caused a fire in an apartment building in Gothenburg...

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