Greece plans to extend the western limit of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 miles, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. Italy and Albania, who also have Ionian coasts, have been officially informed about Greece’s plans and a bill on the matter will be submitted to...
A man was declared dead on arrival at Famagusta hospital on Wednesday after he was pulled out of the sea unconscious. The 65-year-old was spotted by other beachgoers at around 7.30pm floating unconscious in the sea near Sotira. He was in the area with his wife. An ambulance rushed the...
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s illness would not damage Russia’s ties with the West and that it was keen to find out why he fell ill despite declining to open an investigation into the incident. Navalny is in a medically induced coma in a...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he was “really pleased” by the work done to prepare schools for reopening next week, a test of his government after it failed to get children back to class earlier this year. Johnson, whose Conservative government has come under fire for how...
Hurricane Laura was expected to cause catastrophic damage and “unsurvivable storm surge” to the Gulf Coast near the Texas and Louisiana border after strengthening on Wednesday to a Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center said. Laura, located 200 miles (320 km) south-southeast of Port Arthur, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon,...
Ethnikos Achnas began their Cyprus first division campaign with a 2-0 home win over Enosis Neon Paralimni on Wednesday night. The fixture was due to be the opening game of the new season on Friday night, but it was pushed back to Wednesday due to the two positive Covid-19 cases...
England left-back Ben Chilwell has become Chelsea’s third high-profile signing of the summer after leaving Leicester for a fee reported to be in the region of £50million. The 23-year-old has put pen to paper on a five-year deal with the Blues, joining Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner as recent arrivals,...
In one of the areas worst affected by the Beirut blast, volunteers loaded boxes containing food and sanitary items into cars ready to distribute to those in need. Near the port where the catastrophic blast had originated, other volunteers took measurements to replace windows shattered by the explosion. None of...
A number of studies have noted recently that Cyprus needs to improve its reputation and its brand. That kind of improvement takes time, involves ongoing reforms and the gradual emergence of Cyprus as a financial and economic centre in the Levant sees it working to improve the island’s reputation. But,...
The health ministry on Wednesday announced 10 new cases of coronavirus after 3,207 tests, the majority concerning people with a travel history. The total number of cases detected in Cyprus is now 1,484. The total includes 30 cases that are under investigation after it was discovered that the samples had...
Barcelona are working to convince Lionel Messi to stay at the club following the Argentina superstar’s bombshell request to leave. The 33-year-old rocked the Catalan giants on Tuesday night, when it is understood he asked for his contract, which has a year still to run, to be terminated under an...
Iran said on Wednesday it had agreed to grant the U.N. nuclear watchdog access to two sites that the agency suspects once secretly hosted nuclear material or activities, easing a months-long standoff over the issue. Wednesday’s breakthrough in the dispute over the sites near Karaj and Isfahan was announced in a...
Turkey has donated 100,000 US dollars (€84,500) to the committee on missing persons (CMP), it was announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the CMP thanked the Turkish government for the donation which brough Ankara’s financial assistance to the CMP to €1,082,500 over the past 13 years. The contribution to the...
A 43-year-old man was referred to the Larnaca criminal court on Wednesday facing charges in connection with the trafficking of half a kilo of cocaine. Georgios Christodoulou Zavrantonas allegedly committed the offence on May 25 last year. His trial is scheduled for October 5. He had managed to escape to...
Hellenic Bank CEO Yiannis Matsis has resigned and will be replaced by Constantinos Loizides, the current CEO of AstroBank, reports said on Wednesday. No details concerning the apparently unexpected decision were immediately available. Matsis had been appointed as a member of the board of directors in December 2013. He was...
European Union nations, Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a Covid-19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least 40 per cent of their populations, a step that may set back the World Health Organisation’s own vaccine blueprint. The EU target for early vaccinations is twice as high as the...
Two elderly men detained by police in connection with a fire in Platres on Tuesday were expected to be released Wednesday without being charged due to insufficient evidence. The two men, 77 and 80, were arrested on Tuesday night on suspicion of starting a fire in the Platres area, which...
Police on Wednesday opened a premeditated murder investigation after recovering the body of a man reported missing since July in Larnaca. Andrei Popa, 33, who had been missing since July 22, was found buried in a field in Larnaca near the airport after the arrest of a 26-year-old Indian man...
Milwaukee Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was named NBA Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday. Antetokounmpo received 75 first-place votes and 432 points in balloting performed by a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. Power forward Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers was second (200 points, 14 first-place...
The European Commission has approved a €500,000 Cypriot scheme to support the pig sector badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said on Wednesday. The scheme was approved under the state aid temporary framework. The public support, which will take the form of direct grants, will be open to any natural...
British military scientists have discovered that a product found in insect repellent can kill the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, Sky News reported on Wednesday. The product, Citriodiol, could offer a new layer of protection against COVID-19 according to scientists at the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Sky...
The latest member of Test cricket’s 600 club, James Anderson, has revealed he is already plotting with England captain Joe Root to have one last crack at reclaiming the Ashes. When Anderson had Pakistan captain Azhar Ali caught at slip by Root deep into the final day of the drawn...
A violent flash flood killed more than 70 people and destroyed hundreds of homes just north of Afghanistan‘s capital on Wednesday, officials said. The floods swept through Parwan province, which borders Kabul, in the early hours of the morning, washing away men, women and children and destroying 300 homes, according to...
