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2611. Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died at the age of 84

Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died at the age of 84, her family has said....

2612. Union crowd turns violent over strikebreaker bus driver

A crowd of bus company workers on strike in Nicosia became aggressive after a march on Wednesday, with police officers unable to clear way for a driver who broke ranks and attempted to get back to work...

2613. Chinese Boeing 737 plummeted 8,000 meters in three minutes

A Boeing 737 carrying 132 people that plummeted 30,000ft to the ground and burst into flames in China suffered a catastrophic 'loss of control event', experts have warned....

2614. Everything You Need to Know About Crypto Today (at least for the next 8 hours!)

Don’t be intimidated by my headline if you know nothing about Bitcoin or the Bored Ape Yacht Club. You are in the majority....

2615. Moscow jumps on Burisma links to Kiev

Moscow has put together an elaborate diagram alleging Biden connections to Ukrainian biological labs, with new revelations initially described by Washington as “Russian disinformation” now gaining traction in the United States and reaching all the way to Cyprus...

2616. Luminous glow in the skies of Japan immediately before 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits

Videos showing the moment a 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Japan at 23:36 local time yesterday are incredible to watch. The quake was initially estimated to have a magnitude of 7.3 but was later revised to 7.4 by the Japan Meteorological and Seismological Service. ...

2617. Moody's: Which countries are geopolitically and financially at risk from the war in Ukraine?

Geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe may have been high for years, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a paradigm shift in the post-Cold War European order of security,...

2618. Zelensky to US Congress: 'Is it too much to ask for a no-fly zone?' (video)

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is going through 9/11 and Pearl Harbor every day, urged the US to protect his skies as he invoked Martin Luther King and the Founding Fathers in a heart-wrenching speech to Congress on Wednesday morning....

2619. Moscow says western media not impartial

Moscow says western media and UN officials have fallen short of being impartial in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, citing backstage stunts in a humanitarian resolution and a deadly attack in Donetsk that did not appear in mainstream news media...

2620. Sergei Guriev: Ukraine was a ‘major miscalculation’ by Putin

What Russian President Vladimir Putin was hoping to accomplish by invading Ukraine on February 24 was “another Crimea effect (in 2014 his approval rating grew from 60 to 90%),”...

2621. Larnaca students evacuate bus that caught fire

Students on a large bus in Larnaca carried out an emergency evacuation on Tuesday after the driver spotted a fire in the back and pulled over...

2622. Porsche Cyprus breaks stereotypes with the launch of the ''SHIFT project''

Porsche globally breaks stereotypes with an innovative strategy titled the ''SHIFT project''. In exactly the same direction, Porsche Cyprus and A.I. MOTOKINISI LTD are taking active action on the issue and join this international campaign in order to send a strong message to actively support women regarding what they can and are entitled to do in today's world. ...

2623. Volkswagen gets a lot of buzz premiering their new electric throwback bus – the ID. Buzz (images)

Volkswagen unveiled their new ID. Buzz in Hamburg, calling it “Europe’s first all-electric bus”....

2624. Anastasiades visits Pournara after reports of unsuitable conditions

President Nicos Anastasiades visited Pournara at 9 am this morning after reports surfaced on the unsuitable living conditions of minors being housed at the center. ...

2625. American journalist killed in Ukraine

An American freelance journalist was shot and killed in Ukraine after a car came under fire near a checkpoint outside Kiev, but it was unclear who targeted the vehicle...

2626. Parents face manslaughter in preemie’s death

Prosecutors in Cyprus are moving forward with manslaughter charges against a couple whose preemie died last week, with police suspecting abuse in a case of shaken baby syndrome and the parents saying they were trying to revive their little girl...

2627. Cyprus’s underwater sculpture park offers a deep dive into aquatic art

Snacking on the works of art in museums is typically discouraged. But that’s exactly what I’m witnessing at the Museum of Underwater Sculpture Ayia Napa (Musan) as a shoal of flickering fish tuck into the algae on the sculptures’ surface....

2628. Eleftheria Square bestowed 'Rethinking The Future' award for 2022

The architectural design of Eleftheria Square has received an international distinction yet again. The architects were awarded the Rethinking The Future (RTF) award of 2022....

2629. Windstorm blows a gale through Cyprus

A windstorm is passing through Cyprus accompanied by a cold front, with weather officials issuing a yellow warning for Thursday night through Friday morning...

2630. New cancer therapy completely destroys advanced ovarian and colorectal tumors in 6 days

A new cancer therapy has completely destroyed advanced ovarian and bowel tumors in just six days....

2631. Dead Sea Turtles revive debate on beach projects

Several dead sea turtles have been spotted along a northwestern coast of Cyprus, with environmental activists calling for an investigation and officials reiterating terms and conditions for any ongoing beach works in the area...

2632. Party-goers in Limassol defy covid measures to celebrate carnival (video)

Limassol is known as the party capital when it comes to carnival celebrations, and this Sunday showed just that. ...

2633. Five female-run businesses using design to create a waste-free world

From ‘collaborating’ with bacteria to make material for trainers, to ‘unplastic’ made from brewery waste, these female-founded businesses enlist the power of creativity to do away with waste....

2634. Concerns over bioweapons emerge in Ukraine

Washington warned this week that Russians could plan a biological or chemical attack in Ukraine, in response to Moscow’s claims that Russian armed forces obtained evidence of US-sponsored research as well as calls for American officials to come clean...

2635. Kyriakides: 10,000 beds in European hospitals for sick or injured refugees

In Europe at the moment, solidarity is unprecedented. Commissioner Stella Kyriakidou, after talking to the Ministers of Health in the Member States and Moldova,...

2636. Cyprus under high wind warning

A wind advisory was in effect Thursday as weather officials warned of very strong to near-gale winds expected to pound different parts of the island...

2637. Lukashenko may have mistakenly revealed plans for the Russian invasion

2638. Eleftheria square lit up in solidarity with Ukraine (images)

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 7 days ago, monuments around the world were lit up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag to show support and solidarity with the Ukrainian people. ...

2639. YouTube in Cyprus blocks RT over Ukraine

YouTube in Cyprus has blocked access to popular Russian news outlet RT citing 'the ongoing war in Ukraine' after European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said pro-Russia sites were spreading lies...

2640. Russian Ambassador to Cyprus: 'Russian tourists will go to Turkey, is that what you want?'

Stanislav Osadchiy, Russia’s Ambassador to Cyprus, has said, in an interview with a local media outlet, that the Republic of Cyprus and other European countries who have imposed sanctions on his country over its invasion of Ukraine have ‘shot themselves in the foot.’...