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“Growing up, in the old days, we had good vegetables” It’s a truism that sun-ripened fruit and vegetables in Mediterranean countries are among the best in the world. The ...

Landowners from the Akamas community of Ineia said on Sunday they would block the roads in and out of the Lara area next Sunday as part of measures they’ve ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Recent developments suggest that the US and the EU are moving towards stagflation, that is the coexistence of inflation and low economic growth, with ...

By Gregoris Savva Debt restructurings in Cyprus declined to €545 million in the first half of 2022, with loan renegotiations slowing down following a record 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and as ...

Israel and Palestinian militants have agreed to a truce in Gaza from Sunday evening as mediated by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend-long pounding of Palestinian targets by Israel triggered ...

The body found on a beach in Paphos early Sunday has been identified as 57-year-old Greek Cypriot Andreas Katsaris who went to the area daily to swim, police said. His ...

When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year’s summer holiday in 2021, she chose the tropical southern island of Hainan because of its nigh-perfect COVID track record. The island ...

Amnesty International apologised on Sunday for “distress and anger” caused by a report accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians which infuriated President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and triggered the resignation of its Kviy ...

The EU has punished Turkey for its behaviour towards Cyprus by freezing several chapters of the accession negotiations, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola was quoted as saying on Sunday. In ...

Professional fishermen in Paphos have been insistently calling for a new port to dock their boats, the head of the town’s fishermen’s association Leonidas Leonidou said after repeated ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Sunday defended expenditure by his ministry after a public spat with the health insurance organisation (HIO) from whom it is claiming back €120 million for using ...

At a massive cost to us all – except the oil companies “I urge people everywhere to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry and their financiers: that this ...

Turkey’s resolve in the eastern Mediterranean should not be tested, the leader of Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Sunday. Referring to the new mission ...

Seven people, contacts, of Cyprus’ first monkeypox case, were in the process of being vaccinated on Sunday, a day after a quantity of the jabs arrived in Cyprus. Cyprus detected ...

The people of Famagusta are tired of 48 years of false hopes of return and everything the government is doing is leading nowhere, the mayor of the occupied town has said. ...

Four more ships carrying almost 170,000 tonnes of corn and other foodstuffs sailed from Ukrainian Black Sea ports on Sunday under a deal to unblock the country’s exports after Russia’...

Four new cases of illegal hiring and employment are being investigated by Famagusta police, they said on Sunday. On Saturday night, police carried out checks on clubs and pubs in ...

Temperatures on Sunday and for the coming days will be slightly down on what it has been over the past two weeks, the met office said on Sunday. Sunday should ...

Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Sunday, causing no casualties but signalling new reach and resolve as Israel pressed air strikes in the Gaza Strip and admitted Jewish visitors ...

The shortages of computer chips that forced global automakers to scrap production plans for millions of cars over the past two years are easing – at a new and permanent cost ...

In the world of cryptocurrency, new players are emerging onto the scene. Some of these players are here to stay, while others quickly fizzle out. It can be difficult to ...

The only way forward in Cyprus is dialogue and there is no alternative, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said. Addressing an annual event on Saturday night in the Famagusta region, ...

Elon Musk on Saturday challenged Twitter Inc TWTR.N Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the percentage of bots on the social media platform. “Let him ...

By Michele Groppi The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were ...