INEOS offers to develop test shale gas site in Britain
Chemicals and energy giant INEOS has offered to develop a shale gas test site in Britain to demonstrate to the government that extraction by fracking can be performed safely.
The ...
London market blocks newly refined Russian platinum and palladium
Newly refined Russian platinum and palladium was suspended from trading in London from Friday, denying access to the metals’ biggest trade hub in the latest in a growing list of ...
Passenger traffic to Cyprus expected to see 50% rise in 2022
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos estimates that Cyprus will see 50 per cent more passenger traffic this year compared with 2021.
“I want to send the message that although we expect to lose ...
Man City and Liverpool share spoils in pulsating title clash
Manchester City remained one point clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League standings after the highly-anticipated clash of the giants ended in a pulsating 2-2 draw at ...
British finance minister Sunak requests review of his financial declarations
Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday he had asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a review to determine whether he had stuck to the rules on ministerial ...
Dead baby found in a bag in old Nicosia
Authorities were alerted after a dead baby was found in the capital Nicosia’s old town on Sunday evening.
According to CyBC, the baby was discovered inside a bag in ...
France’s Macron and Le Pen head for cliffhanger April 24 election runoff (Update 3)
French leader Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen qualified on Sunday for what promises to be a very tightly fought presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic ...
Archbishop turns 81, thanks God and doctors for ‘stable health’
Archbishop Chrysostomos turned 81 on Sunday saying that his health was stable “with the help of God, and his doctors”.
During the day the archbishop, who has been diagnosed with cancer ...
Austrian leader to meet Putin in Moscow on Monday
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, an Austrian government spokesperson said, in what would be the first face-to-face meeting between Putin and ...
Battle looms in Ukraine’s east, Washington commits to weapons supply (Update 2)
Russian forces continued shelling targets in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, as Washington said it would meet Kyiv’s request for more military aid by providing “the weapons it needs” to ...
Coronavirus: Two deaths, 1,459 test positive on Sunday (Updated)
The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,459 had tested positive from 57,728 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.53 per cent.
The deaths concerned ...
‘Nowadays, escapism is all we need’
April is one of the best times to escape and go hiking and nowhere more so than the Akamas
Some of us travel to explore the sites, while others do ...
Price increases: The government cannot set profit margins
Controlling prices by getting civil servants to draw a line between legitimate and illegitimate profit is a futile exercise
What is the margin of profit? On the face of it, ...
U.S. will supply Ukraine with ‘the weapons it needs’ against Russia
The United States is committed to providing Ukraine with “the weapons it needs” to defend itself against Russia, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Ukraine ...
Biden will speak to India’s Modi as U.S. warns India on imports of Russian energy
President Joe Biden will virtually meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the White House said, at a time when the United States has made clear it does ...
Anastasiades and Tatar to attend same event on Wednesday
President Nicos Anastasiades will attend an event on Wednesday the Ledra Palace, which will also be attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar under the aegis of Colin Stewart, Special ...
TUI kicks-off Cyprus summer 2022 with new flying ambassador
Just in time for the start of the summer season, Cyprus is getting a new flying ambassador, a plane that was christened ‘Larnaca’ at a special ceremony on Sunday.
Larnaca, ...
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian woman in W. Bank, military investigating
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, after a string of deadly Arab and Palestinian attacks in ...
Russian rockets destroy Dnipro airport -Ukraine officials
Russian forces fired rockets into Ukraine’s Luhansk and Dnipro regions on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, completely destroying an airport and wounding at least five people.
Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of ...
East Med gas – a new message
With tectonic shifts on the world stage, now really is the time to solve the Cyprus problem and put Cyprus’ energy finds to use
In a fast-changing geopolitical world – following ...
Nicosia keen on Nato membership but Turkey remains an obstacle
Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides on Sunday suggested that Nicosia was keen on joining Nato in light of the current status quo on the island, if it wasn’t for Turkey.
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Polling station for French presidential elections operating at Nicosia embassy
As presidential elections got underway in France on Sunday, the French Embassy in Nicosia was operating a polling station for individuals who are registered to vote.
A French Embassy spokesperson ...
Russia confirms prisoner exchange with Ukraine
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova confirmed on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday.
Moskalkova said that among those returned to Russia were ...
Iran MPs set conditions for reviving 2015 nuclear deal amid stalled talks
Iranian lawmakers have set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the U.S. Congress that Washington would not quit it, Iranian state media ...