Zelenskiy: Ukraine will stop hitting refineries if Russia halts energy attacks
Ukraine is ready to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries if Moscow ceases its own strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, after US President Donald...
View ArticlePope Leo to undergo surgery for ‘small growth on lung’
Pope Leo said on Sunday that doctors had detected a small growth on his lung during a recent health check and he would be undergoing surgery this week to remove it, in the first health scare of the...
View ArticleBear escape at Melios Zoo prompts call for tougher inspections
Animal Welfare Commissioner Elias Myrianthous said on Sunday that authorities should already have enforced court rulings against Melios Zoo, after a bear was found outside its cage on Saturday evening....
View ArticleCyprus to raise planned Turkish natural gas pipeline with EU
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will raise a Turkish plan for an undersea gas pipeline to the occupied north with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg on Monday, the foreign ministry said. Kombos has...
View ArticleFrom kidneys to title deeds: a way through the Cyprus property problem
For 50 years, property has sat at the centre of every negotiation on Cyprus, and every time it has been deferred to a “comprehensive settlement”. In a recent article for the Turkish Cypriot daily...
View Article109 migrants, including 15 children dead after boat from Djibouti to Yemen...
At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and more than 116 are missing after a boat carrying about 350 people capsized while sailing from Djibouti to Yemen, the International...
View ArticlePolish security services meet following threat to PM and defence minister
Polish security services convened a special meeting on Sunday after receiving information about a potential attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, an...
View ArticleAlien ‘phoenix planet’ was born from the ashes of a dying star
In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that...
View ArticleGovt commits €4.7 million to Kyperounda village
The government is spending €4.7 million on projects in Kyperounda, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said at the village’s apple festival on Sunday. Ioannou formally handed over a €462,000...
View ArticlePromised palliative care in Cyprus cannot wait until 2030
After losing her mother to a “a rare and fatal” neurological illness, Mariyana Rakova knows better than most the sometimes appalling levels of palliative care offered by the state. Her mother Rayna...
View ArticleHouthis warn against using Saudi airports after deadly Riyadh attack
Yemen’s Houthis warned airlines, travellers and airport workers on Sunday to stay away from Saudi airports, a day after an attack on Riyadh’s international airport killed 12 people and wounded more...
View ArticleCyprus ‘receives invitation’ to COP31 summit in Turkey
Cyprus has reportedly received a letter inviting it to the UN climate summit in Antalya, a government source informed the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday. The source was responding to an article in...
View ArticleWhy is Cyprus taking such a risk for Maccabi Tel Aviv?
There is something deeply troubling about the decision to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv to make Cyprus its home for its EuroLeague basketball matches this season. There is nothing inherently wrong with...
View ArticleAthienou bread and loukoumi expected to win EU protected status
Athienou bread and loukoumi are expected to receive European protected geographical indication status within the next year, Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis said on Sunday. The status ties a...
View ArticleThree workers seriously injured after falling at Strovolos building site
Three construction workers fell nine metres at a building site in Strovolos, leaving one in a critical condition, police said on Sunday. The men, aged 33, 45 and 49, were working on a building under...
View ArticleRubio in Athens: Greece’s strategic value and the challenge for Cyprus
US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens was significant in both substance and symbolism. It was more than another high-level diplomatic visit. It highlighted...
View ArticleChristodoulides heralds Cypriot FBI in fight against organised crime
President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that the new directorate for combating organised crime, dubbed the ‘Cypriot FBI’, dramatically changes how the state will tackle serious crime. In a...
View Article‘Morphou must return’ says Christodoulides
President Nikos Christodoulides said that though he is ready to make certain concessions in a Cyprus settlement, the return of Morphou is “non-negotiable”. Speaking at the 46th anti-occupation event...
View ArticleCyprus’ classic case of strategic entrapment
In an anarchic international system, small states bordering regional heavyweights operate on razor-thin margins of survival. Neither multilateral communiqués, commercial energy concessions, nor...
View ArticleTwo drivers injured in head-on crash near Tsada
Two drivers were taken to hospital after a head-on collision on the Polis Chrysochous to Paphos Road near Tsada on Saturday night. The crash happened at about 11pm, when a car driven by a 20-year-old...
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