Typhoon Haishen battered Japan’s southern mainland with powerful winds and drenching rain, cutting power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting authorities to call for some 1.8 million people to evacuate. Haishen was drawing closer to the main southern island of Kyushu. At 12:45 a.m. (1545 GMT on Sunday)...
France’s Pierre Gasly won an astonishing Italian Grand Prix thriller for Italy-based AlphaTauri on Sunday in a topsy-turvy race packed with suspense and none of the usual top teams on the podium. McLaren’s Spaniard Carlos Sainz finished a close second at Monza after a nail-biting chase to the flag, with...
Nicholas Karides reviews Justin EH Smith’s book Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason How is it possible after centuries of forward leaps in rational thinking, decades of scientific discovery and the steady spread of democracy and education that, suddenly, it feels as though we’re on the...
Two new coronavirus cases were detected on Sunday, both of them, asymptomatic. The latest cases bring the total at 1,509. One of Sunday’s news cases is a flatmate of a man from India who tested positive this week after returning from his country. He has no symptoms. On Saturday, another...
Pope Francis urged the faithful on Sunday to steer clear of gossip, calling it worse than the coronavirus and saying it could be used to divide the Roman Catholic Church. “Please, brothers and sisters, let’s make an effort not to gossip. Gossiping is a worse plague than COVID,” the pope...
Once a secret idyll known only to locals, the Kremmiotis waterfalls have become the must-have post on social media By Bejay Browne Summer 2020, and the Kritou Terra waterfalls have become the essential Instagram post during a year when we were all stuck in Cyprus and desperately looking for somewhere...
Does your pet have white ears and a short nose? Take extra care of them in the heat By Annette Chrysostomou Much has been written about what we should do when confronted with temperatures as high as 45C, but what about our pets? Many of them are just as vulnerable...
The President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer, is due to hold meetings with the Cypriot government in Nicosia on Monday, to discuss new ways to support the economy during the challenging conditions created by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a press release by EIB, Hoyer is due...
Before the crisis of 2013, the economy was founded on huge piles of risky debt. Little has changed since then By Les Manison Prior to the financial crisis of 2012/13 and during the recent recovery, the Cyprus economy has relied mainly on the tourist and construction sectors to generate growth....
And its impact on Cyprus’ aspirations to export its gas By Charles Ellinas The future of global gas demand was the subject of the Global Gas Report 2020 (GGR) published last month by the International Gas Union (IGU), in collaboration with Bloomberg NEF (BNEF) and Italian gas company Snam. In...
A 24-year-old man from Nicosia was remanded on Sunday for three days after fireworks, thousands of firecrackers but also tobacco were found in three establishments he manages. The man was arrested on Saturday after police located 100 fireworks, 2,500 firecrackers, almost six kilogrammes of tobacco and €6,000 in cash in...
By David Stanway The Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, believed by many to be the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, is sealed behind a blue perimeter fence. A large team of security staff chases away anyone who lingers. “We are just doing our job,” said a...
The defence ministry has told the Sunday Mail it does not expect a huge uptake in the offer of deferrals to conscripts to allow them to leave behind the military service they recently started to take up places in UK universities later this month. For the first time ever, some...
It was inevitable that the comments about US-Cyprus relations made by American ambassador Judith Garber at a news conference on Wednesday would draw a response from Russian ambassador Stanislav Osadchiy. Garber had explained that the legislation allowing the partial lifting of the US arms embargo also envisaged, among other things,...
HAVING tried to counter Al Jazeera’s attempts to harm Kyproulla’s reputation, our political leaders seem to have decided to do the job themselves, the message being we can do it better. For the last 10 days or so they have been throwing dirt, exchanging accusations and threats. The comrades of...
By Alper Ali Riza Casus Belli is a Latin tag used by diplomats and political leaders to mean a hostile act that justifies use of force against the perpetrator state. The most egregious example was Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour that caused US to declare war on Japan on December...
