Archive August 2022

Yemeni forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have seized energy facilities in Shabwa from another faction, prompting the head of the Saudi-backed presidential council on Sunday to order their ...

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck ruled out on Sunday extending the lifespan of the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants in order to save gas, saying it would save ...

Museum of Rural Life at Steni transport visitors back to grandparents’ era Objects and exhibits related to traditional professions, the household and Cypriot way of life from decades past can ...

Israeli spyware firm NSO Group said on Sunday its Chief Executive Shalev Hulio is stepping down with immediate effect, with Chief Operating Officer Yaron Shohat appointed to oversee a reorganisation ...

Singapore will decriminalise sex between men, the prime minister said on Sunday, adding that society in the city-state was becoming more accepting of gay people. But he added the government ...

Court orders currently see one plant in limbo but communities are all unwilling to host facility Buoyed by a recent court interim order freezing the process to move an asphalt ...

There was a strong police presence in Lara in the Akamas peninsula on Sunday in efforts to prevent the residents of Ineia from digging turtle nests on Lara beach. The ...

The status quo in Cyprus and Turkish activity in Varosha are unacceptable and contrary to the resolutions of the UN Security Council, the president of the US Senate Foreign Relations ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near the coast of Ecuador on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) and struck about 86 ...

The aim is to support responsible lending and responsible borrowing Cyprus’ only credit agency believes that the inclusion of data from the widest range of categories is the only way ...

The €5 million redevelopment of the main squares in Polis Chrysochous and Prodromi are moving ahead as planned. The final details of the redevelopment of the central squares were put up ...

THE RESTORATION of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel are not directed against Cyprus and do not affect relations between Cyprus and Israel, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos told our own ...

The foreign ministry on Wednesday issued a statement which said among other things: “For yet another time we are watching with astonishment and concern the effort of Turkey to distort ...

But expert warns lack of political will means it probably won’t ever be Can the Cyprus problem still be solved? Professor James Ker-Lindsay, the passionate international relations analyst, recently ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been infected with COVID-19 and is recuperating at his official residence, his office said on Sunday. Kishida, just returned from week-long vacation, was due ...

In the past, I believed that the malaise of Cyprus was primarily caused by the incompetence and frivolousness of its leaders. Recently however, I have embarked on a process of ...

A pro-Russia rally held in Limassol on Saturday drew ire and sarcasm from Twitter users. In a short video-clip posted on Twitter by one user, it shows people close to ...

A 46-year-old man diagnosed earlier this month with monkeypox was discharged on Sunday afternoon and will continue to be confined at home. The Health Minister’s communications advisor Constantinos Athanasiou ...

A rental car in Larnaca was engulfed in flames on Sunday morning, close to Anglisides. According to the police, the incident happened at 9.30am on the Limassol to Larnaca motorway ...

Ring found in Kent belonged to teen married in Cyprus As I shuffle through a dozen of documents, including letters, newspaper clippings in Greek and English as well as photographs, ...

More than 1,900 workers at Britain’s biggest container port are due on Sunday to start eight days of strike action which their union and shipping companies warn could seriously affect ...

The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow on Saturday evening, Russian state investigators said on ...

Floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains killed at least 50 people in northern and eastern India over the last three days, officials said on Sunday. The rains overwhelmed hundreds ...

By Parveen Akhtar In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of ...