Archive June 2024

By Sybille de La Hamaide and Michael Hogan A heatwave due to spread throughout Europe this week is set to take a heavy toll on summer crops in the southeast ...

Free speech organisations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...

By Jake Spring Setting aside an additional 1.2 per cent of the world’s land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263 ...

China’s BYD launched its third electric vehicle in Japan, it said on Tuesday, a sedan that will be its most expensive model so far in a market where consumers ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a third suspect in connection with the discovery of what authorities have described as the largest weapons cache found on the island. The 42-year-old man, is ...

Novak Djokovic is encouraged by his progress after undergoing minor knee surgery less than three weeks ago but the seven-times Wimbledon champion said he will only play in the grasscourt ...

Employees at the Limassol state hospital pharmacy on Tuesday announced a work stoppage this week to protest severe understaffing which has left the pharmacy unable to function effectively. Pharmacists from ...

Three Cypriot newspapers, including the Cyprus Mail, featured on a list of EU media outlets that Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said it was banning access to inside the ...

AEGEAN has been named the “Best Regional Airline in Europe” at the prestigious World Airline Awards 2024, for the 13th consecutive year and the 14th overall in its 25 years of operation. ...

The Cyprus Association for People with Autism and XM have proudly inaugurated their pioneering Center in Limassol, welcoming all children on the autism spectrum to enhance their quality of life. ...

EMEA Finance awarded Bank of Cyprus the Best Financial Institution Bond in Southeastern Europe award in the 2023 Achievement Awards for its highly successful €220mn AT1 bond issuance in June 2023. This ...

Cyprus is a hotspot for real estate growth, which is the focus of this weekend’s Cyprus 4.0 supplement, free with the Sunday Mail. With a booming economy, favourable investment climate, ...

Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature on Tuesday, with at leastfive protesters killed and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed ...

Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanolis announced at the Cyprus International Business Association (CIBA) forum on Tuesday that the fleet of Cypriot-flagged ocean-going vessels has grown for the first time ...

A man found dead on a beach in Ayia Napa on Monday died from drowning, an autopsy showed on Tuesday. Georgios Senekkis, 57, from Dasaki Achnas died while harpoon fishing in ...

Press emphasising safety concerns for tourists after Hezbollah threats last week are “a bolt from the blue” and the only way out is to defuse the situation, the Hotel Professionals ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it was banning access inside Russia to the broadcasts of dozens of European Union media outlets in what it said was retaliation for ...

The government has plans to improve the infrastructure at Pournara migrant reception centre, where “excellent work” is being done, Deputy Immigration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Tuesday. Speaking after his ...

An Albanian player leads fans in chants against North Macedonia. Rival supporters unite to chant “Kill the Serbs”. A journalist from Kosovo receives death threats for an eagle gesture. The ...

Huge differences have been found in petrol retail prices around the island, some exceeding 14 cents per litre, the Cyprus consumer’s association said on Tuesday. The association published a report ...

The president of the Cyprus Borrowers Association (Syprodat) Costas Melas on Tuesday welcomed the recent decision by the Cabinet to extend a range of government support measures, noting that it ...

Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession ...

In an era where technology and art are increasingly intertwined, visionary artist Michalis Charalambous explores the boundaries of human experience through innovative mediums. His latest collaberation, Love, Death, and Meta, ...

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary into the military, a decree with the potential to divide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...