Bases hold proclamation ceremony for King Charles (video)
The Sovereign Base Areas on Sunday held a proclamation ceremony for His Majesty King Charles III. The event featured a parade of military and civilian personnel from across the Bases.
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Saudi Arabia: reducing dependency on mineral wealth
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...
Bus chaos in Ayia Napa
Shoving, pushing and often drunk, crowds fight for buses
The situation with early-morning buses in Ayia Napa has become increasingly lawless and unbearable – though the end of summer will presumably ...
Yet another opportunity that should not be wasted
Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem
You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...
Xi leaves China for first time since Covid pandemic began to meet Putin
Xi Jinping will leave China this week for the first time in more than two years for a trip to Central Asia where he will meet Vladimir Putin just a ...
Turkey accuses Greece of harassing vessel, firing shots in the Aegean
The Turkish foreign ministry has made new allegations against Greece, claiming that Greek coastguard vessels on Saturday harassed the Comoros-flagged Ro-Ro ship Anatolian, and fired warning shots some 11 nautical miles ...
A bank for the ‘little’ people
The founding fathers of the Bank of Cyprus would surely be horrified at the turn of events.
“Thrift” and “savings” for little people were the Victorian watchwords in the 1890s.
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Buffer Fringe eradicates borders through art
Bicommunal festivals starts diversity at the top with range of curators
There’s just a few weeks to go until the Buffer Fringe Festival’s ninth edition will take artists ...
Cyprus: A very troubled flag
But it’s special in many ways and the source of much creativity among vexillologists
What would the Republic of Cyprus flag look like if ice caps melted and sea ...
Cyprus preparing request to register ‘red potato’ as a PDO
After the success halloumi registration as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product, the government is already preparing an official request to register the island’s second most important agricultural ...
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin travels through Scotland, mourners line streets (Update 5)
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin arrived in Edinburgh on Sunday after a six-hour journey from her summer home in the Scottish Highlands, past tens of thousands of mourners lining the route, ...
Chinese President Xi congratulates King Charles on accession to throne
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory message to King Charles on his accession to the British throne, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
Xi said in the ...
Wrong article put Baltic states in bad light
I would like to comment on your article of August 30 (Cyprus Mail – Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic state treated as ‘second class people’, says Moscow).
As a person from Baltic ...
UK Cypriots send letter of condolences to King Charles
Politicians and organisations in Cyprus may have been silent following the death of Queen Elizabeth but the UK diaspora issued it condolences.
In a letter to King Charles, the president ...
Temperatures to fall midweek
Above-average temperatures across the island will continue to prevail on Sunday with a gradual drop expected by Wednesday, the met office said.
On Sunday, temperature will rise to around 39C ...
Muted response to death of queen
A troubled history with the UK saw a distinct lack of reaction to the news this week compared to other countries around the world
Justifiably or not, the reaction in ...
Explainer: Understanding Ethereum’s major ‘Merge’ upgrade
Ethereum, the blockchain that underpins the world’s second-largest crypto token ether, will soon undergo a major software upgrade that promises to slash the amount of energy needed to create ...
Cafe employee arrested on suspicion of embezzling €41,000
A 48-year-old Limassol cafe employee has been arrested on suspicion of stealing around €41,000 from his workplace.
The suspect, a shift manager allegedly fiddled the receipts for July and August.
The ...
Hundreds evacuated in west Indonesia after magnitude 6.1 earthquake
About 200 people evacuated to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck islands in western Indonesia on Sunday, causing some property damage, the country’s disaster mitigation agency BNPB said.
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Rising costs fuel worries about US airlines’ heavy debt loads
A scramble by US carriers to fill empty cockpits is fueling cost pressures just as mounting economic worries have cast a shadow on travel demand, sparking concerns about debt-laden airlines’ ...
US ban on Nvidia, AMD chips seen boosting rivals
The US ban on exports to China of Nvidia and AMD’s flagship artificial intelligence chips will create new business opportunities for domestic startups jockeying for a piece of China’...
Cost of living crisis? Just go without
I wonder why Judge Riza, wrote about profiteering (Sunday Mail, August 21, Everyone knows that profiteering is criminal).
Has he just bought a designer shirt and realised a near identical shirt ...
Tennis-Swiatek swats aside Jabeur to claim maiden U.S. Open title
World number one Iga Swiatek swept to a 6-2 7-6(5) victory over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in the U.S. Open final on Saturday to clinch her maiden trophy at ...
Swedes head to polls in close-run election marked by crime, energy crisis (Update 1)
Swedes voted on Sunday in an election pitting the incumbent centre-left Social Democrats against a right-wing bloc that has embraced the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats as it tries to win back ...