Ryanair says flights to and from Greek island Rhodes operating as normal
Ryanair RYA.I said on Sunday that its flights to and from the Greek island of Rhodes are operating as normal and unaffected by a wildfire that forced thousands of ...
Cyprus: policies to narrow inequalities
An enforceable tax on wealth, a serious clampdown on tax evasion, combatting the public sector payroll and improving the minimum pay system are all crucial
Income inequalities are dominated by ...
Cyprus ‘warmly welcomes’ amendment to extend renewal period on arms sales to the island
Defence Minister Michalis Georgallas on Sunday welcomed the US Senator Robert Menendez’s proposed amendment to the National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) extending to three years from one the renewal ...
UK’s Gove warns against treating tackling climate change as ‘religious crusade’
British housing minister Michael Gove warned on Sunday against making tackling climate change “a religious crusade”, days after the governing Conservatives narrowly won a local election by opposing charges for ...
Treatment of wheelchair users a disgrace
While the wheelchairs are rolling over the Cyprus Mail pages this week, in Larnaca we just putter along the sidewalks without dropped curbs. Often cars block them where they exist – ...
Teenage girl rescued after was found unconscious at sea
An officer was slightly injured during the rescue of a 17-year-old girl who was found unconscious in the sea area of Paphos over the weekend.
Information about the missing teenager ...
Will this consensus scaling effort cement Ethereum’s and DigiToads role in DeFi and Gaming?
The Ethereum Consensus Scaling Effort is a series of projects that are designed to improve the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain. The goal of these projects (which include sharding, rollups, ...
Geri blaze another nail in coffin for Cyprus recycling
And that’s aside from the health and building zone concerns
When one of only two paper and plastic recycling processing plants burnt down in Geri, Nicosia last week, it ...
Spanish election: Franco’s ghost?
“Europe is threatened by anti-European mobs who destroy police stations, burn libraries and stab babies,” explained Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox Party and the bogeyman in ...
Stroke patient who waited for hours at A&E ‘receiving full medical care’ says Okypy
A stroke patient who waited for about seven hours on a stretcher at the Paphos accidents and emergency department “is receiving full medical care” state health services organisation (Okypy) said ...
UK band The 1975 cancels Indonesia, Taiwan shows after Malaysia LGBT controversy
British band The 1975 said on Sunday they have cancelled shows in Taiwan and Muslim-majority Indonesia, a day after Malaysia banned them from performing there after their frontman kissed a bandmate ...
Documentary festival announces this year’s line-up
More than 20 ground-breaking documentaries will take place at the 18th edition of the Lemesos International Documentary Festival this summer. From August 1 to 8, a line-up of cinema screenings and parallel events ...
Annual impact of Turkey’s economic embargo on RoC at 1% of Cyprus GDP
The impact of Turkey’s economic embargo on the Republic of Cyprus amounts to around one percentage point of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually.
According to the data collected ...
Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral postponed due to Netanyahu’s surgery (updated)
The Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery on Saturday.
The prime minister’s office said planned trips to Cyprus ...
Five dead after heavy rains in eastern China, crops damaged in northeast
Five people died and two were missing, after heavy rain burst a river bank in a village near eastern China’s Hangzhou city on Saturday, flooding houses and carrying away ...
Spain votes in election that could see Socialists lose power (updated)
Spaniards began voting on Sunday in a potentially close-run general election that could see Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s governing Socialists lose power and a far-right party make up part ...
Lythrodontas fire destroys crops, pine trees
A fire that broke out in Lythrodontas burned 5,000 square metres of pine trees, agricultural crops and wild vegetation, the forestry department said on Sunday.
The agriculture ministry’s department said ...
Why the 2024 US presidential election will likely be a choice between Biden and Trump again
By Victoria Cooper
Why, in a country of more than 330 million people, does it appear that Americans will have to choose between Joe Biden or Donald Trump at the 2024 US ...
Orange alert as temperature hits 44C
An orange weather alert was in force on Sunday for extreme heat, as temperature reaches 44C.
The warning for extreme high temperature is valid from 12 to 6pm, the met service ...
Elon Musk says Twitter to change logo, adieu to ‘all the birds’
Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”.
In ...
Cyprus Business Now: weekly wrap-up
Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 17:
Tourist arrivals in Cyprus experienced a significant increase of 22.7 per cent in June 2023 compared to the same ...
In praise of summertime
Those songs of summer say it best
These days the heat of the summer months is too much for anyone to venture out while the Sun beats down at temperatures ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Black anniversary cliches fall like torrential rain
THE EUROASIA Interconnector that will link our electricity grid with that of Israel and Greece has run out of funds and the project promoter is seeking assistance from the state ...
Meta opens AI model to commercial use, throwing nascent market into flux
Meta (META.O) is releasing a commercial version of its open-source artificial intelligence model Llama, the company said on Tuesday, giving start-ups and other businesses a powerful free-of-charge alternative to ...