Arrest for use and possession of laughing gas
A 20-year-old man was arrested early Sunday for possession and use of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) in Ayia Napa, police said.
At around 1.15am officers spotted the man inhaling from ...
Motorcyclist, 21, killed in Larnaca
A 21-year-old motorcyclist from Larnaca was killed in the early hours of Sunday on the section of highway from the Rizoelia roundabout to the airport, police said.
The accident happened ...
G7, Nato summits lay bare deep divide between Russia, China and the west
By Stefan Wolff
Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food ...
Buckle Up: How investors can deal with crypto turbulence
When Doug Milnes started buying cryptocurrencies in January of this year, he felt like it could become an entirely new asset class for investors.
Right now what it is making ...
Despite what they have endured recently, garden stalwarts are thriving
By Patricia Jordan
At this time of year when I long to be cool I know that I can go indoors and put on the air con and cool down ...
Ferrari to churn out gas guzzlers on its slow road to electric
Ferrari (RACE.MI) makes some of the fastest cars on the road, but the luxury Italian automaker is taking the slow lane to an electric future as it tries to ...
Hezbollah sends drones toward Israeli gas rig in disputed waters
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Saturday it had sent three unarmed drones towards an Israeli Mediterranean gas rig, which the Israeli military said it had intercepted.
The Iranian-backed Shi’ite ...
‘U.S. Supreme Court asks Maryland to bar ‘threatening activity’ at justices’ homes
The U.S. Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests ...
Uvalde schools police chief resigns from City Council following shooting
The head of the Uvalde, Texas, school police force quit his City Council seat amid criticism over his response to a mass shooting at an elementary school, according to a ...
Jacobi Asset Management to launch Europe’s first bitcoin ETF on Euronext
Jacobi Asset Management said on Thursday that it would launch Europe’s first bitcoin exchange-traded-fund (ETF) on the Euronext exchange, in a sign of the cryptocurrency’s appeal despite its ...
The Turkish Cypriots who are paying the price of speaking out against Ankara
Observers draw attention to the fact that all seven Turkish Cypriots, who were deported, are intellectuals or opinion leaders who advocate a federal solution in Cyprus
By Esra Aygin
A ...
Our View: An urgent need to scrutinise excess deaths
With so much going on – inflation, migration, Covid, the Cyprus problem, next year’s election – it’s easy to miss the issue of excess deaths in Cyprus. And of course ...
Nato states see Ukraine fatigue set in
Unlike their leaders who love grandstanding on the world stage, most people are not prepared to pay any price in support of Ukraine
Being the British prime minister has its ...
Live music in Larnaca and Limassol
Adding to July’s musical agenda are a couple of events in the island’s coastal cities. At Larnaca’s The Tudor Inn Bar on Wednesday will be a jazzy ...
Top Russian general inspects troops involved in Ukraine operation- defence ministry
The chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected divisions of Russian troops involved in Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, the defence ...
Blasts rock Ukraine southern city as Russia grinds out gains in the east (Update 3)
Blasts shook Ukraine‘s southern city of Mykolaiv on Saturday as Russia’s artillery helped grind out gains in the east, after a week when the civilian death toll from ...
Fiscal council sounds the alarm, issues gloomy outlook
The fiscal council has sounded the alarm over delays in securing EU funds from the bloc’s recovery plan, casting a gloomy outlook against the backdrop of record inflation and ...
Ryanair cabin crew in Spain announce 12 new days of strikes in July
Spain-based cabin crew at Ryanair RYA.I plan to strike for 12 days this month to demand better working conditions, the USO and SICTPLA unions said on Saturday, raising the prospect ...
Ireland hopeful over Sexton after post-match check on head injury
Ireland head coach Andy Farrell revealed captain Johnny Sexton could be available for next weekend’s second Test following a resounding 42-19 loss to New Zealand in the series opener.
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Foreign firefighters arrive in Greece for summer wildfire season
Several dozen Romanian and Bulgarian firefighters took up their posts in Greece on Saturday, the first members of a European force being deployed to the country to provide backup in ...
12-month sentence for fatal hit-and-run a ‘huge insult’, victim’s family says
The 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver in a fatal Ayia Napa crash has been decried by the victim’s family as a “huge insult” in a statement issued ...
A minute with Adrianella Nicolaou Singer
Where do you live?
In Nicosia with the man I love, he supports me and he is always by my side.
What did you have for breakfast?
Whole grain cereal ...
Astronaut study reveals effects of space travel on human bones
A study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station is providing a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and ...
Anastasiades says rebuffed suggestion by Erdogan that they meet in the north
President Nicos Anastasiades offered to meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Paris, who instead suggested that a meeting could take place in the north – to which Anastasiades replied: “no ...