By Steve Lemeshko
On the night of July 23, I stood outside in Limassol, watching ash drift from the sky. It was hard to imagine the chaos unfolding up towards the ...
Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 21:
Sek general secreatary Andreas Matsas on Monday issued a strong defence of the Cost of Living Allowance (...
YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prezniktwo, seeing his dazed and confused look when he arrived at the crisis centre set up in Ayios Amvrosios to deal with wildfire in the ...
The government has been vilified for the perceived failure to contain the wildfire that broke out in Malia village around lunchtime on Wednesday and spread in the hills north of ...
Some of the world’s top tech firms, including US search giant Alphabet, South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix and Indian IT services provider Infosys, have provided upbeat guidance in their ...
OpenAI and Oracle (ORCL.N) will develop another 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding a tie-up that has promised hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment to keep the ...
British consumer sentiment had a marked fall for the first time in nearly three years last month, reflecting increased worries about job security, a Deloitte survey showed this week.
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German business activity continued to grow marginally in July, though at a slightly slower pace than in June, as manufacturing output expanded for a fifth consecutive month and services activity ...
As Cyprus’ largest ever recorded fire raced through villages in the Limassol district this week, destroying houses in its wake and killing two elderly people fleeing the inferno, it left ...
McLaren’s Lando Norris edged out his championship-leading teammate and title rival Oscar Piastri for pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
The Briton blasted around the long ...
A hand grenade was placed outside a television station’s headquarters in Nicosia, the police said on Saturday.
The grenade was discovered after the television station had received a telephone ...
The crypto market is experiencing turbulence as Ripple (XRP) is dropping 6% to $3.23, following the SEC’s abrupt delay of Bitwise’s crypto ETF conversion. This setback is shaking investor confidence, ...
As Ethereum (ETH) slides under the $3,700 mark and Solana (SOL) experiences a downward shift, investors and whales are actively repositioning their portfolios. Their sights are now set on high-yield decentralized ...
Cabinet will approve the first plans to offer compensation to people whose property was damaged or destroyed by last week’s wildfire in Limassol when it convenes on Wednesday, according ...
AC Milan beat Liverpool 4-2 in a pre-season friendly in Hong Kong on Saturday as the Premier League club’s record signing Florian Wirtz made his first start for them.
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The British & Irish Lions stormed back from an 18-point deficit to overhaul Australia 29-26 in front a record crowd in Melbourne on Saturday and seal the series with a ...
U.S. President Donald Trump kept a low profile on his Scottish golf course on Saturday, ahead of meetings with top British and European leaders, as questions swirled at home ...
At least 54 children and about 30 adults swam from Morocco to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta in rough seas and fog, Spanish television reported on Saturday.
Video footage on ...
Binance Coin’s (BNB) impressive 12% rebound this week has reignited excitement across the crypto markets. While BNB’s recovery reflects the strength of established platforms, investors are now looking beyond ...
Speeding fines incurred by people who were fleeing the wildfire which broke out in the Limassol district this week and were caught by mobile speed cameras will be cancelled, the ...
Syrian and Israeli officials agreed to meet again after no final accord was reached in U.S.-mediated talks in Paris on de-escalating the conflict in southern Syria, state-run Ekhbariya ...
A second Greek island is to stage a protest against the planned arrival of an Israeli cruise ship which last week docked in Cyprus after being turned away from Syros.
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A total of 160 people are currently being housed in temporary accommodation after being evacuated from their homes due to the wildfire which has been burning in the Limassol district since ...
They live in the village of Ayia Triada, halfway up the Karpasia peninsula with its sleepy roads set amid thickets of pine, palm and olive – though also in the pages ...