Archive 2024

One person drowned in southwestern Poland, a rescue worker was killed in Austria and thousands were evacuated in the Czech Republic after heavy rain continued to batter central Europe on ...

Football is a healthy sport and games should not be turned into a hotbed of conflict, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Sunday ahead of an Apollon-Ael match deemed high ...

Sir, Tony Milligan’s article in Thursday’s edition of the Cyprus Mail (Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control – here’s why that’s so ...

An eventful day at the park awaits with the upcoming Up To YOU(th) Festival. Performances, discussion events that break down stereotypes, an NGO Fair, a tech corner, exhibits, games ...

A 43-year-old man in Limassol died early on Sunday morning while driving away from the general hospital where he presented with chest pain. Alkis Michail crashed into a parked vehicle ...

On Sunday at 5pm two Cypriot Youths turned up at my ancestral home in Droushia Village and stopped their khaki green Mercedes saloon vehicle on my drive to let the ...

Dozens of blood transfusions to thalassemia patients were postponed due to low reserves in Cyprus’ blood bank, head of the national thalassemia association Miltos Miltiadous said on Sunday. His statements ...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Heather Timmons Global pop star Taylor Swift’s support for Kamala Harris may have boosted the Democratic vice president’s hopes of attracting young voters, but ...

If you live in a populated area, you will have seen or heard the laughing dove, the small lilac pigeon with a pinkish underside, which sounds as if it is ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for ...

By Richard Denniss, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Apparently, the world is about to get its first trillionaire. A report from the business intelligence agency Informa Connect ...

Dear Sir/Madam  After reading the article about footballers and clubs complaining to Fifa and others that there are too many games being played, I think they should start by ...

Police on Sunday warned the public that a football club protest would affect traffic in Limassol’s city center after 6:30pm. Main roads will be closed, and driving will be ...

Before saying anything about the Great Debate in the US last week between the best-looking old man Donald Trump and the best-looking fifty-something woman, a few words about the way ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting September 9: Influencers in Cyprus are currently facing increased scrutiny as authorities ramp up checks on tax compliance and ...

THE BIG DAY is nigh. On Wednesday the supreme constitutional court will announce its decision about the Odysseas-general. His future depends on the half a dozen judges who have probably ...

Russia’s digital development ministry plans to allocate nearly 60 billion roubles ($660 million) over the next five years to improve the system used to censor web traffic, a government proposal seen ...

If three years ago someone had predicted that in 2024 the Cyprus Republic would be signing a roadmap for bilateral defence cooperation with the United States they would have been dismissed ...

It is hard for Dogan Duman to see how he can keep his garment factory in central Turkey running much longer, even after firing a third of his staff to ...

The energy unit of Japan’s Panasonic Holdings (6752.T) has finalised preparations for the mass production of its 4680 electric-vehicle batteries, the company said this week, as it seeks to start ...

A surface-to-surface missile fired at central Israel from Yemen hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries, Israel’s military said on Sunday. Moments earlier, air raid sirens had sounded in ...

Samsung Electronics, the world’s top maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips, is cutting up to 30 per cent of its overseas staff at some divisions, three sources with direct ...

Japan’s economy grew at a slightly slower pace than initially reported in the second quarter, hurt by downward revisions in corporate and household spending that point to a bumpier ...

Demetrios Bestitzanos is a doctor, specifically an internist. A few years ago, around the time he turned 50, he decided to relocate from Athens – where he’d been studying and working ...