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10 October, 2024
 

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Bill Gates celebrates 66th birthday in Bodrum

Bill Gates celebrates 66th birthday in Bodrum

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates celebrated his 66th birthday in Turkey, including one of the richest people in the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos....

Volunteers gathered to pick up garbage in Agros over the weekend

Volunteers gathered to pick up garbage in Agros over the weekend

As part of the "Let's do it! Cyprus 2021" campaign, 50 volunteers and members of NGO's gathered together over the weekend in Agros and managed to fill 25 bags of mixed garbage and 12 bags of PMD materials....

Erdogan: Turkey to snub Libya conference if Greece, Cyprus or Israel participate

Erdogan: Turkey to snub Libya conference if Greece, Cyprus or Israel participate

Turkey will not attend an international conference on Libya in Paris on November 12 if Greece, Israel or Cyprus are invited, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, according to Turkish media....

COVID death toll surpasses 5 million worldwide

COVID death toll surpasses 5 million worldwide

The coronavirus is responsible for more than five million confirmed deaths around the world as of Monday,...

Greece becoming a hotspot for Hollywood films

Greece becoming a hotspot for Hollywood films

Philip Fertis is involved in puppetry, but due to the pandemic, the demand for performances in schools and municipalities is low. ...

President Anastasiades attends COP26

President Anastasiades attends COP26

The President of the Republic, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, along with 130 world leaders, is attending the COP26 climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland....

COVID vaccine in a patch

COVID vaccine in a patch

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year

Fires raged. Rivers flooded. Ice melted. Droughts baked. Storms brewed. Temperatures soared. And people died....

Police looking for suspected human smuggler

Police looking for suspected human smuggler

Police in Cyprus believe that a wanted man in Larnaca is involved in a human smuggling network, following the arrests of his wife and others last week near the buffer zone...

Bicycle subsidy website suspended indefinitely

Bicycle subsidy website suspended indefinitely

The government portal for bike subsidy applications was temporarily shut down due to "excessive interest" in the scheme....

Cypriot ‘superminister’ accused of obstructing sea rescues

Cypriot ‘superminister’ accused of obstructing sea rescues

Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has slammed a report about him calling the shots to hinder sea rescues of refugees, accusing a journalist of pushing an 'extremely dangerous' open doors agenda while the local newspaper is hitting back with a little-known 'embarrassing' incident...

The eternal unfinished buildings in our cities

The eternal unfinished buildings in our cities

Driving in some areas of Cyprus, we can see some skeletal buildings that "stand" there abandoned for many years and it makes us wonder why they were left there to rot....

Samsung Healthcare eyes €6 mln Cyprus deal

Samsung Healthcare eyes €6 mln Cyprus deal

Medical manufacturing giant Samsung Healthcare is pitching for a record €6 mln deal to supply 55 ultrasound units to state hospitals,...

Cypriot banks to reduce costs

Cypriot banks to reduce costs

The President of the European Banking Authority speaks to "K"...

Paphos medic goes missing again

Paphos medic goes missing again

Police said they found an abandoned car in Akamas national park that was known to be driven a missing person, a male nurse who also went missing last year after a coronavirus scare...

Bad weather still looms after wet weekend

Bad weather still looms after wet weekend

An unstable weather pattern producing heavy winds and thunderstorms is still affecting parts of the island, following reports of flooding incidents in Larnaca over the weekend that also caused flight diversions and delays at the airport...

Man dies in highway head-on collision

Man dies in highway head-on collision

A man is dead and a woman critically injured following a front impact collision on the Nicosia-Limassol highway, with police trying to understand how the female driver ended up going the wrong way...

Trick or treat!

Trick or treat!

Ghouls and gobblins, spooks galore, scary witches at your door. Jack-O-Lanterns smiling bright, wishing you a haunting night!...

The New York Times International Edition every Sunday with Kathimerini Kyprou

The New York Times International Edition every Sunday with Kathimerini Kyprou

"Kathimerini" and NYT France - Kathimerini S.A. announce the publication of "The New York Times International Edition - Kathimerini English Edition" weekend leaf newspaper in Cyprus along with its circulation together with the basic package of "Kathimerini" Cyprus....

Cyprus dips toe into euthanasia debate

Cyprus dips toe into euthanasia debate

Euthanasia in the Republic of Cyprus is forbidden by law but two women in parliament are more than ready to discuss the taboo of painless killing, a practice viewed by the Church as suicide or even murder...

Stroke is the second leading cause of death in Cyprus

Stroke is the second leading cause of death in Cyprus

The second leading cause of death today in Cyprus is stroke, according to the Cyprus Stroke Association....

WWF documentary ‘Blue Future’ to premiere on Sunday

WWF documentary ‘Blue Future’ to premiere on Sunday

The world premiere this Sunday of “Blue Future,” a documentary by the World Wildlife Fund, will coincide with the start of the crucial United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26)....

Russians fly to Cyprus to escape quarantine

Russians fly to Cyprus to escape quarantine

Facing the toughest restrictions since the early months of the pandemic, many Russians have decided that now is an ideal time to fly off for a foreign beach holiday instead of hunkering down at home....

Legal doubts over detentions in Cyprus’ Azeri case

Legal doubts over detentions in Cyprus’ Azeri case

The legality of arrests of four Pakistani men, who were identified by Cyprus police as suspects based on phone records in connection with an alleged plot against Israelis, will be reexamined after the Supreme Court ruled that a law allowing indiscriminate data retention on all citizens violated European human rights...

Greece popular with expats

Greece popular with expats

Greece is rapidly evolving into a preferred destination for people wishing to live and work away from home, as the country is rising on the global list drafted by international bank HSBC....

'Early to bed, early to rise...'

'Early to bed, early to rise...'

On Sunday morning at 2 AM, October 31st, clocks will 'fall back' one hour, giving us an extra hour of sleep and marking the end of Daylight Savings Time which began in March....

Council of Europe: Government in Cyprus ‘too centralized’

Council of Europe: Government in Cyprus ‘too centralized’

Cyprus remains a “very centralized country”, according to a report from the Associated Press. ...

United States issues its 1st passport with ‘X’ gender marker

United States issues its 1st passport with ‘X’ gender marker

The United States has issued its first gender neutral passport with an 'X' designated under the gender category, making it one of just over a dozen countries to identify intersex individuals....

Facebook company changes name to Meta

Facebook company changes name to Meta

Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile internet...

Supreme Court slams unwarranted access to phone data

Supreme Court slams unwarranted access to phone data

The Supreme Court in the Republic of Cyprus has found that a law allowing indiscriminate phone data retention for police purposes violates EU rights to privacy, with experts describing the decision as a major upset in ongoing criminal cases built on private information...

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