The chairman of Ireland’s tourism authority, former Ryanair Chief Operating Officer Michael Cawley, resigned on Saturday after going on holiday to Italy, contrary to government advice to avoid non-essential travel abroad. Cawley, a Ryanair director who also served as finance chief and deputy CEO at the airline, faced calls from...
Fourteen new coronavirus cases were recorded on Saturday, the health ministry announced. The new cases, most of which are local, were detected among 3,813 lab tests. The total is now 1,332 cases. Three of the news cases, which were asymptomatic, are linked with the hen party cluster which now numbers...
A man jumped onto a great white shark and punched it to save his wife when it attacked her on Saturday at a beach in Port Macquarie in the Australian state of New South Wales, media and officials said. The Sydney Morning Herald said that Chantelle Doyle, 35, was attacked...
Britain‘s Queen Elizabeth paid tribute to the sacrifice of soldiers on the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, which marks victory over Japan and the end of World War Two, as she recalled the anguish of the war and joy of its conclusion. Japan signalled its intention to surrender on August...
The fire service on Saturday said it was assisting the bases to put under control a fire raging southwest of Episkopi. According to fire service spokesperson Andreas Kettis, the fire erupted at around 2pm. The fire is within the British bases, he said, and the Republic’s fire service has sent...
The United Arab Emirates has made a “huge mistake” in reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech furiously condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state. The Iranian hardline daily Kayhan, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by Supreme...
A Nicosia café was fined €8,000 because it did not follow the social distancing rules for its tables while its staff had no masks on. Three other businesses in Paphos were each fined €1,000 for over-crowding. In total, police fined 26 businesses and 16 individuals during 953 checks between Friday...
Struggling British department store chain has appointed Hilco Capital to draw up contingency plans for a possible liquidation of the chain in the unlikely event that an attempt to sell the business ends in failure. Debenhams on Tuesday said it would cut a further 2,500 jobs, while taking “all necessary...
Pope Francis called for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Saturday, urging them not to let a dispute over a dam on the Nile lead to conflict. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is being built some 15 km (9 miles) from Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, has become a...
Where do you live? At my place, by myself What did you have for breakfast? A cold sandwich with Philadelphia cheese and salmon, and as always a double shot, Lavazza Columbia Black Freddo Espresso Describe your perfect day Wake up at 9:00, have breakfast, go straight to the...
Violation of the status of Varosha, the fenced-off area of the occupied town of Famagusta, will be the cause of interruption of Turkey’s European course, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday calling on Ankara to consider the cost. He was making statements to members of the press after a church...
By Andrei Makhovsky Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday issued an appeal to long-term ally Russia as he faced growing pressure to step down following a disputed election that has triggered protests at home and condemnation abroad. Lukashenko is grappling with the biggest challenge to his 26-year rule as tens...
By Gwynne Dyer “India is emotional as decades of wait has ended,” declared India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laying the cornerstone of a new temple in Ayodhya a week ago. “For years our Ram Lalla (the infant Lord Ram) lived beneath a tent; now he will reside in a grand temple.”...
By Alexia Saleem I used to worry about my children’s education, what school they’d get into, how well they’d do academically. Would they be happy? What university would they go to? What career path would they choose? And they still hadn’t been born yet. I wouldn’t have given it much...
A senior U.S. official called on Saturday for a “thorough, transparent and credible” investigation into this month’s Beirut port blast that killed 172 people and injured 6,000. “We can never go back to an era in which anything goes at the port or the borders of Lebanon that had to...
Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said he did not rejoice over having to tell his EU counterparts ‘I told you so’ as regards the negative results of the policy of appeasement the bloc has been following on Turkey. According to the foreign ministry, Christodoulides, addressing the extraordinary EU Foreign Affairs...
Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for COVID-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday, hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing. Some scientists said they fear that with this fast regulatory approval Moscow may be putting national prestige...
Healing comes in many forms. Here in the west, we tend to think in terms of pills and prescriptions, hard-hitting antibiotics and hasty visits to overworked doctors. But away to the east, in the orient and on the subcontinent, healing has – for thousands of years – been a very...
A 27-year-old man from Nicosia is in critical condition after being ejected from his car when it crashed into a traffic signal pole in Lakatamia. The accident occurred at around 1.35 am on Archbishop Makarios Avenue in Lakatamia when the 27-year-old, under conditions that are being investigated, lost control of...
Two young men, both aged 20, were arrested in connection with the bank robbery on Friday in Nicosia by a 17-year-old boy, police said on Saturday. The boy, who police said is 17 years and nine months old, was arrested on Friday shortly after an armed robbery in an AstroBank...
Police on Saturday said they arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with last weekend’s fire in Avdimou, in Limassol. The man was arrested on Friday after police secured a testimony linking him with the fire. A fire on four fronts raged last Sunday afternoon in the Prastio Avdimou area. It...
The EU27 foreign affairs ministers that held an extraordinary videoconference on Friday on Greece’s request after Turkey sent one of its seismic vessels escorted by warships in Greek waters, said they stand in solidarity with Greece and Cyprus. They also called for de-escalation in the eastern Mediterranean, and dialogue with...
By Ella Walker The best kind of marshmallow is toasted on a stick over a fire, the sky overhead glazed with stars, and your body weary from a day spent trudging outdoors. What other marshmallow could even compete?! For Ray Mears, there’s a real magic to the simplicity and communality...
