Turkey says world cannot ‘burn bridges’ with Moscow
Turkey and other nations must still talk to Russia to help end the war in Ukraine, Turkey’s presidential spokesman said on Sunday, adding that Kyiv needed more support to ...
Streaming showdown and a ceremony shakeup set stage for Oscar Sunday
A dark Western, “The Power of the Dog,” will battle feel-good deaf family drama “CODA” for the film industry’s top honor on Sunday when, free of last year’s ...
Poland’s support for Ukraine unequivocal, says ambassador
“We don’t know how many more Ukrainian refugees will come to Poland – what we do know is that we will take all of them in.” The speaker is Irena ...
Some 30,000 Ukrainian refugees reach France
Some 30,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in France, with half of them travelling through the country to other places such as Spain, French housing minister Emmanuelle Wargon said Sunday.
Wargon told ...
Call for recipes to help feed the needy
Participants required for international cookbook
Fifty women in Cyprus will see their favourite recipes published in a book, alongside a photo and a short biography to raise money for good ...
UK may provide more help to households on energy bills -Sunday Times
The British government could provide another multi-billion pound package to help shield households from a further jump in energy bills later this year after its latest budget was criticised for ...
Ahead of visit, Lagarde optimistic Cyprus can weather current storm (Updated)
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde is optimistic that Cyprus will use the flexibility it has shown many times in order to face the current difficulties as a result ...
U.S. envoy not confident Iran nuclear deal is imminent (Update 2)
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday he was not confident that a nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran was imminent, dampening expectations after 11 months ...
Man 74, killed in traffic accident
A 74-year-old man was killed in a traffic accident on Saturday night in Limassol after his vehicle collided with car driven by a 46-year-old on a busy street.
The accident ...
War in Ukraine causes German business morale to collapse
German business morale plummeted in March as companies worried about rising energy prices, driver shortages and the stability of supply chainsin the wake of the war in Ukraine,pointing to ...
Quake of magnitude 5.8 strikes Ecuador coast, damaging buildings Source: Reuters
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near the coastal region of Ecuador late on Saturday, damaging buildings and striking down light poles on highways.
The quake was at a depth of 40 ...
Environment commissioner calls for individual and global action
Never before has the need to comply with the wishes of the planet been so imperative worldwide, Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou said during the annual Earth Hour event on Saturday ...
Hard landing: Lessors lose hope of getting Russian planes back
As the clock runs down to Monday’s sanctions deadline for Russian airlines to hand back more than 400 leased planes worth almost $10 billion, foreign lessors are fast losing hope that ...
Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to build a new social media platform
Tesla Inc TSLA.O Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday.
Musk was ...
Could the US ship more LNG to Europe?
The United States, the world’s top natural gas producer, wants to send more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe to help its allies break their dependence on Russian gas ...
Russian forces are firing at Kharkiv’s nuclear research facility – Ukrainian parliament
Russian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian parliament said in a Twitter post on Saturday.
“It is currently impossible to estimate ...
Turkey’s current account deficit seen rising to 4 per cent of GDP this year
Turkey’s current account deficit is expected to rise to $32 billion or 4.0 per cent of GDP this year, more than the 2.5 per cent previously forecast, Goldman Sachs said, citing rising ...
Predictions for the Oscars 2022 best picture
By Ari Mattes
There were some extraordinary films released in 2021: Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, an electric neon romp through the porn world, Ildikó Enyedi’s period epic, The Story of ...
Potatoes fall victim to war and weather
A series of late frosts will cost potato producer Avraam Venizelos dear
Sitting at Peristerona’s kafeneio just opposite the church of St Barnabas and Hilarion, I take a quick ...
Our View: We must all adapt and learn to cope with the higher prices
High prices of fuel, grain, meat and vegetables have become a popular subject for the media. Indignant stories about the the constantly rising price of fuel, the soaring cost of ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Cue the ribbon of silent defiance
NONE of our courageous politicians has yet broken the vow of silence they took with regard to the unveiled threats issued by Mother Russia’s ambassador Stan Osadchiy 10 days ago. ...
Biden calls Putin a ‘butcher’, Russian forces take Chernobyl workers’ town (Update 6)
US President Joe Biden, visiting Nato ally Poland on Saturday, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher”.
Biden said he was not sure Russia was changing its strategy in Ukraine ...
Coronavirus: Two deaths, 5,172 people test positive on Saturday (Updated)
The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 5,172 had tested positive from 82,488 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 6.27 per cent.
The deaths concerned ...
Turkey defuses mine after Russia warns of strays from Ukraine ports
Turkey’s military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had drifted in from the Black Sea, setting off a loud explosion north of Istanbul, days after Russia warned several of ...