Cuba seeks more electricity supply from Turkish powerships
Cuba, mired in an energy crisis that has brought frequent blackouts, is negotiating with a Turkish company to have it double the megawatts it currently produces for the country from ...
Tencent, Sony to take stake in “Elden Ring” publisher FromSoftware
Units of Tencent and Sony will take minority stakes in FromSoftware Inc, which publishes hit action role-playing title “Elden Ring” in Japan, via a third-party allotment of new shares, parent ...
Asphalt plant relocation discussion drags on
The long, drawn-out discussions over the controversial relocation of asphalt plants to the Mitsero and Vasiliko area continued during Wednesday’s session of the House Environment Committee, after Vasiliko and ...
Our View: Gorbachev the man who changed the course of history
Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday, aged 91, was celebrated in the West as a great leader but in Russia he was reviled for causing the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
Qatar central bank issues first license for digital payments
Qatar’s central bank has issued its first license for digital payments services to iPay by Vodafone Qatar and Ooredoo Money, it said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Halland hits another hat-trick, Arsenal keep up 100% start
Erling Haaland continued the blistering start to his Manchester City career by scoring a hat-trick inside 38 minutes as the Premier League champions smashed promoted Nottingham Forest 6-0 on Wednesday.
Haaland ...
UN inspectors near Ukrainian nuclear plant on mission to avert an accident (Wrapup)
United Nations inspectors arrived on Wednesday in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on a mission to prevent a nuclear accident at a Russian-occupied power plant where nearby shelling has ...
MFA says EU member-states retain the right to examine and approve or reject requests for citizens of Russia
The island’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday clarified that the decision in principle by EU Foreign Ministers to suspend the Visa Facilitation Agreement does not mean abrogation or ban on ...
U.S. will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, Biden tells Israel’s Lapid
President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday the United States will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, the White House said, as Tehran seeks ...
Cyprus and Spain to cooperate in organ transplantation
Cyprus and Spain’s Health Ministers met on Wednesday in Nicosia to discuss issues related to a bilateral cooperation in organ transplantation and the set up of a committee to ...
Greek star Sakkari crashes out of US Open after surprise defeat
Greek third seed Maria Sakkari became the biggest casualty in the women’s draw at the U.S. Open when she fell to a 3-6 7-5 7-5 defeat to unseeded ...
The role of science as a peace-building means highlighted at bi-communal STEAM camp
The role of science as a means for peace-building was highlighted in a bi-communal STEAM camp, which was funded by the US Embassy in Cyprus.
The STEAM for Peace and ...
Gazprom head says ‘sanctions confusion’ means Siemens cannot service Nord Stream 1 -Interfax
Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller on Wednesday said Western sanctions mean Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE is unable to carry out regular maintenance on equipment for the Nord Stream 1 natural ...
Media outlets ask court to unseal more records tied to FBI search of Trump’s homes
News media outlets on Wednesday filed a new bid to unseal even more court records tied to the FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, ...
FTSE 100 logs worst day in seven weeks as recession worries mount
UK’s FTSE 100 logged its worst daily performance in seven weeks on Wednesday as warnings of even higher inflation in the coming months raised fears of a deep recession in ...
Lebanon president, amid financial meltdown, returns amended bank secrecy law to parliament
Lebanon’s president on Wednesday returned to parliament an amended banking secrecy law that lawmakers passed around a month ago, saying it needed further tweaks to strengthen it.
Parliament’s ...
Germany says it will expand military presence in Indo-Pacific
Germany will expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific by sending more warships and joining drills with allies as it keeps an eye on the “enormous” build-up of China’s ...
Hackers hit Italian oil company Eni’s computer networks
Italian oil company Eni’s computer networks were hacked in recent days but the consequences appear to be minor so far, the company said on Wednesday.
“The internal protection systems ...
MPs to focus on vocational training and special education
Post-secondary vocational education and training institutes (MIEEK) will be on the House’s education committee agenda for the new session it was announced on Wednesday.
MPs sitting on the committee ...
Lawmakers aim for family law reforms by presidential elections
The House legal affairs committee on Wednesday announced talks will begin early next month in an effort to push through important family law reforms before the presidential elections in February 2023.
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Queen Elizabeth will appoint new prime minister at Balmoral
Queen Elizabeth will break with tradition and appoint Britain’s new prime minister at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London, due to mobility ...
Spanish toddler dies after being hit by giant hailstone
A 20-month-old girl died after being struck on the head during a violent hailstorm that caused havoc in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, authorities said on Wednesday.
Fist-sized hailstones up to 10 centimetres (4 ...
Street party in support of LGBTQ+ community
The summer’s busy fiesta-filled agenda may be coming to an end yet September has plenty of exciting events going on. One of them is another unique evening by the ...
While rest of EU mourns, Baltics recall Gorbachev as agent of repression
Widely praised in the West as a towering statesman who helped end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered in the Baltic states on Wednesday as a repressive autocrat who ...