Canada floods cut rail link to Vancouver port; one dead
Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada’s largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port ...
Pollution forces India to shut five coal-fired power plants around New Delhi
India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air pollution, according to an order from the federal ...
Europe’s planned rival to Visa and Mastercard appeals for public funding
A planned pan-European payments network backed by 22 banks to compete with US duo Mastercard and Visa appealed on Tuesday for public money, saying its private backers were not prepared to ...
Cyprus Business Now
Cyprus Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios said that the current level of tourist arrivals has been deemed satisfactory.
Tourist arrivals between January and October of this year amount to 45 ...
Banking digitisation urgently needed says Hellenic CEO
The digitisation of banking services is ‘not an option, but an urgent need’, the Hellenic Bank CEO Oliver Gatzke said on Monday at The Economist’s annual Cyprus Summit in ...
Electricity prices can and must be reduced
By Achilleas Demetriades
There is no doubt that prices in general are rising, and we need to have a plan to tackle this price hike, which is soaring.
This analysis ...
New neonatal ICU to be created at Makarios hospital
A new neonatal ICU is to be created in addition to the full renovation of the existing one, to facilitate the work of medical professionals but also to allow parents ...
Our View: Crans Montana ruckus shows how desperate Anastasiades is
The collapse of talks at Crans Montana may have happened four-and-a-half years ago but it has suddenly become a major issue. It returned to public debate a few days ago ...
Wales hold Belgium to seal runners-up spot, Dutch qualify
Wales held Belgium to a 1-1 draw to guarantee themselves runners-up spot behind the world number ones in World Cup qualifying Group E in Cardiff on Tuesday.
Kieffer Moore cancelled ...
Nine more migrants arrive off Cape Greco
A boat with nine male migrants arrived in Cape Greco on Tuesday afternoon, with one of them arrested as an alleged people smuggler.
The boat was spotted around eight nautical ...
86-year-old crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ in Israeli pageant
An 86-year-old great-grandmother was crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Tuesday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to honour women who endured the horrors of the Nazi genocide.
Ten contestants – ...
Anastasiades says Cypriot Hellenism is under fire
President Nicos Anastasiades asserted on Tuesday that those attacking him over his handling of the peace process are in reality attacking the Greek Cypriots, pointing out that a recently leaked ...
Johnson rebuffs demand for talks on Parthenon marbles, Cyprus on the agenda
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday that the issue of the Parthenon sculptures, which Greece wants returned from London to Athens, was one ...
Britain’s defence minister visits Ukraine as concern over Russian troop movements persists
Britain’s defence minister Ben Wallace met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a visit to Kyiv on Tuesday, a show of support at a time when Ukraine and NATO countries ...
Coronavirus: 386 new cases recorded on Tuesday (updated)
The health ministry on Tuesday announced 386 new Covid-19 cases were recorded.
No deaths were announced.
The new cases were among 59,730 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.65 per cent.
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Cyprus premiere of play Red Sky Morning
Just before festive pop-up events, the Black Friday sales and the general buzz that the coming season brings, the Nicosia International Festival continues to fill the capital with unique performances. ...
UK’s Prince Charles visits Jesus baptism site in Jordan
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla on Tuesday visited the site on the river Jordan where Jesus is believed to have been baptised, at the start of the ...
Greek and Turkish Cypriots in war of words after north’s flag raised in London
The leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest has apologised to the UK’s Greek Cypriot community after the council granted permission to Turkish Cypriots to hoist the breakaway ...
Police investigate reports of body stolen from cemetery
Police on Tuesday confirmed they were investigating reports that a body was stolen from a cemetery near Anthoupolis in the Nicosia district.
A spokesman told the Cyprus Mail that earlier ...
Greek FM accuses Turkey of creating fait accompli in Cyprus
Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Dendias on Tuesday accused Turkey of seeking to create new fait accompli on the ground in Cyprus through illegal actions in Varosha, violating UNSC resolutions in ...
Jury begins deliberating in Rittenhouse murder trial
The judge in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse told the jury on Tuesday to begin deliberating on the prosecution’s argument he shot three men without justification during ...
Akel cries foul as AG remains tight lipped over dropping spy van charges
The attorney-general’s office on Tuesday said it had no comment on its decision a day earlier to drop all charges against three individuals in the case of the so-called ‘...
Racism cost me my career: Rafiq reveals full extent of harrowing abuse
Yorkshire whistleblower Azeem Rafiq has laid bare the full extent of his harrowing experience of racism in cricket during an explosive and emotional appearance in front of MPs.
Rafiq has ...
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree ceasefire after border clash – Armenia (Updated)
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Tuesday to a ceasefire at their border, the Armenian defence ministry said, after Russia urged them to step back from confrontation following the deadliest clash ...