Archive July 2024

Firefighters were called to the village of Arsos in the Limassol district late Wednesday night to tackle a large fire that broke out shortly before 1am. According to Fire Service ...

In true summer fashion, this weekend is dedicated to the island’s festivals. A handful of them are on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, bringing festive, cheerful times to every ...

Maru Mora-Villalpando had been living in the United States for 21 years when a letter arrived at her door with a deportation notice. It was 11 months into Donald Trump’s presidency, ...

A 54-year-old man from the Philippines, a crew member of the Singapore-flagged cargo ship ‘Maersk Calabar’, was airlifted to the Paphos general hospital on Wednesday. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (...

The met office has issued a yellow warning for heavy thunderstorms and hail for Thursday, valid from 12:00 until 18:00. According to the met office, isolated heavy thunderstorms are expected to affect ...

Barcelona cannot absorb an ongoing, unbridled growth in the number of tourists and has to impose restrictions so as not to become a “theme park” without residents, the mayor of ...

Israeli forces recovered late Wednesday the bodies of five hostages killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and held in Gaza since, the Israeli military said. Maya Goren, a 56-year-old kindergarden teacher, ...

President Joe Biden addressed the nation for the first time since dropping his reelection bid, saying he decided to forgo personal ambition to save democracy in a sedate Oval Office ...

Recent reports in the Daily Express about a supposed “panic” in Cyprus’ tourism industry due to a “huge drop” in bookings have been deemed outdated and sensationalist by local industry ...

Shares in French luxury giant LVMH (LVMH.PA) fell more than 6 per cent on Wednesday and were on track for their biggest one-day drop since October 2023 after its second-quarter sales ...

A week of hot summer weather at the end of June, England reaching the final of the Euro 2024 soccer championship and promotions on branded goods drove UK grocery sales over ...

Years of dumping tonnes of rubbish in a waste management plant that does not have the capacity to process municipal waste from the Limassol district it was built to serve, ...

It was difficult to understand the indignant reaction of tourism stakeholders to a report that appeared in the UK’s Daily Express claiming there was panic in the sector because ...

Protesters demanding the U.S. stop military aid to Israel hoisted Palestinian flags and burnt American ones outside Washington’s Union Station in demonstrations against a visit on Wednesday by ...

A fan invasion in the opening match of the Olympic football tournament between Argentina and Morocco on Wednesday caused chaos, with Argentina eventually beaten 2-1 following a VAR review after ...

Limassol medical centre director Andreas Pantazis on Wednesday called for private ambulances to be included in Gesy. In an explosive letter written to Health Minister Michael Damianos, he said the ...

More than 1,000 people are currently incarcerated at the north’s prison, Cyprus Turkish civil servants’ trade union (Ktams) leader Guven Bengihan said on Thursday. Speaking to news website Kibris Postasi, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday announced his intention to seek re-election next year. Speaking to Turkish television channel A Haber, he said, “having achieved all I have achieved, ...

The sporting action at the Paris Olympics kicked off with two soccer matches on Wednesday, two days before thousands of athletes and artists are set to take part in an ...

Inspiring stories are coming to Kalopanayiotis village as the second edition of Pop Up Talks, Stories That Inspire is set to take place in the first week of August. Following ...

 Greece’s Council of State has ruled in favour of extraditing a Turkish businessman, legal sources told Reuters on Wednesday, who is wanted by Ankara to serve a prison sentence ...

European Leagues and FIFPRO Europe will jointly file a complaint to EU antitrust regulators against FIFA’s international match calendar, the sports organisation and players union said on Tuesday, intensifying ...

World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Paris Olympics due to tonsillitis, the Italian said on Wednesday. Sinner won his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open earlier ...

The K-Cineplex cinema at the Mall of Cyprus closed for good on Sunday. The cinema had been open for 17 years. Announcing the closure, the Mall of Cyprus expressed its “gratitude” ...