Archive 2021

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci hit back on the weekend saying there was no vindication for President Nicos Anastasiades in his interview, as the latter had claimed. In comments ...

But poisonous toadfish might be beyond their grasp With more and more fish entering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, the EU is about to decide if it ...

Cyprus remains deficient in many aspects largely due to the size of its shadow economy By Les Manison The ageing of populations and the devastating socio/economic effects of the ...

A 46-year-old man in Nicosia was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after shooting at his 75-year-old neighbour’s home. According to police, the 75-year-old was doing some ...

Families gathered in villages in southwestern Haiti this weekend to hold church and funeral services a week after an earthquake battered the region, killing more than 2,000 people and destroying tens ...

Seven people were killed on Saturday in crowds near Kabul airport where people have been gathering to try to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban took control, according to Britain’s ...

WARNING: if you are turned off by the Cyprob I suggest you stop reading now, because today’s shop is exclusively Cyproblematic. I apologise for this, but it has been ...

The ancient trail between Bellapais Abbey and Kazafani has recently been obliterated in an effort to make a road, to the distress of many who now want it restored A ...

A vehicle from the department of water development in Paphos was set on fire after the engine and gearbox were stolen, police said on Sunday. The vehicle was stolen sometime ...

Two men aged 20 and 25 were remanded for four days at Larnaca district court after attempting to travel with forged documents a day earlier, police said on Sunday. They were arrested ...

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers imposed some order around chaotic Kabul airport on Sunday, firing in the air and using batons to make sure people formed orderly queues outside the ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis The cascading events in Afghanistan have taken the whole world aback. The extremist Taliban after a two-decade respite, are back in power. The Western intervention in the ...

Police on Sunday said 23 citizens and seven businesses were booked in the past 24 hours for violating Covid-19 measures. Between 6am Saturday to 6am Sunday, there were 5,600 inspections across the country. ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Christodoulides, travels to Israel on Sunday to take part in the Cyprus-Israel-Greece Trilateral Meeting, together with his counterparts from the two countries, Yair Lapid and ...

Amid economic disruptions from Covid-19, global trade on the whole held up relatively well in 2020 and moved on to greater strength in 2021, according to a report by United Nations Conference ...

Bitcoin rose 5.01 per cent to $49,106.4 at 22:04 GMT on Friday, adding $2,342.1 to its previous close. The price of bitcoin on Sunday is $49,239.20 or €42,095.58. There is an analyst consensus that a move ...

Afghanistan‘s new Taliban rulers imposed some order around chaotic Kabul airport on Sunday, making sure people formed orderly queues outside the main gates and not allowing crowds to gather ...

At a dam 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) high in the Alps, construction has begun on Switzerland’s largest alpine solar plant aimed at helping the small country secure renewable energy throughout the ...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is not reading anything into Manchester United’s 9-0 win against Southampton as the sides prepare to meet for the first time since that game on Sunday. ...

Lebanese fuel prices are expected to double after the state decided on Saturday to change the exchange rate used to price petroleum products in a bid to ease crippling shortages ...

Moscow pledged retaliatory measures after a new set of sanctions imposed by the United States on a Russian ship and two companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Russia’...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has been pleased with the reaction of his side as they look to recover from defeat on the opening day of the season when they host ...

Surge in cases of African migrants using fake or stolen ID to get to other EU countries Stricter controls at airports due to the pandemic, plus the recent increase in ...

One of the things the government has been justifiably criticised for recently is its lack of transparency and consistency in the publication of figures related to the pandemic, often using ...