Turkey announced Friday, a live fire naval exercise north of Cyprus between September 12 and 14. Ankara issued a navigational warning or navtex saying it would be carrying out a gunnery exercise in the area off the Kyrenia coast. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Cyprus also issued a navtex,...
Colombia‘s defence minister apologised on Friday on behalf of the national police for an incident of police brutality that sparked two nights of protests that rocked parts of capital Bogota and satellite city Soacha, leaving 11 dead and hundreds injured. Demonstrators have taken to the streets for consecutive nights to...
Police said Friday they have detained a 42-year-old man from Limassol on suspicion of possession and distribution of material showing child sexual abuse. Acting on intelligence, police searched the man’s home and seized three computers, one mobile phone, four external hard drives, and five memory sticks. Police said the man...
The departure of Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques over the destruction of ancient Aboriginal heritage sites in Australia has put mining executives globally on notice – ignore cultural and social issues at your peril. Tens of billions of dollars have been poured into companies based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors...
A group of migrants sent back to Lebanon on Tuesday have filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against the Republic of Cyprus, fearing some may be returned to Syria, migrant support NGO, Kisa said on Friday. According to Kisa, it informed migrants on the boat sent...
Spain’s High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador on Friday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American country’s civil war. Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, 77, was also found responsible by the judges for the murders...
Citing keen interest, the labour ministry said it is making another €200,000 available to extend a holiday scheme at hotels in the mountains and in Kato Pyrgos area for low-income pensioners. The subsidised holidays are for the period September 14 to November 15. With the extra funds, the total budget...
Around half a million people in Oregon were ordered to evacuate as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched US West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 24 people, state and local authorities said. In southern Oregon, an apocalyptic scene of burned residential subdivisions and trailer parks stretched...
Pupils will be given a bamboo drinking straw, a water bottle and a cloth school bag when they go to school on Monday as part of government efforts to combat plastic and raise environmental awareness among the young. This was announced by Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou at a press conference...
Works on the Zouhouri mosque area complex in Larnaca began this week, the municipality announced on Friday, despite complaints from Turkish Cypriot imams that they were not consulted. The revamp on the complex area, which includes the old Turkish Cypriot market, the garden, and the mosque will finish in 18...
The health services announced three new coronavirus cases on Friday, out of 3,108 tests. The cases concern a Cypriot who tested privately without having any symptoms and two individuals who had come into contact with a previously confirmed case. The total number of cases since March has reached 1,520. Three...
A second protest centred on opposition against the Covid-19 restrictions is set to take place at 6pm at Eleftheria Square on Saturday. The demonstration is understood to involve various groups with grievances related to Covid-19 measures and policies. The protest will include groups such as those against masks, vaccinations, 5G...
A political crisis in Australia’s most populous state ended on Friday as one of the parties in the governing coalition abandoned a threat to leave the alliance over policies designed to protect koalas. The clash erupted a day earlier when the Nationals party of New South Wales (NSW) state objected to...
Cyprus and Israel aim to cooperate for the promotion of the Eastern Mediterranean as a top cruise destination, despite the temporary lack of progress due to the COVID19 pandemic. This was reaffirmed during Thursday`s visit of Israeli Ambassador to Cyprus Shmuel (Sammy) Revel at the port of Limassol, with the...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due in Cyprus on Saturday amid moves to defuse tension in the eastern Mediterranean as Turkey refuses to withdraw its maritime assets from disputed areas. Pompeo was initially scheduled to visit earlier this year, but this was postponed as tension between Tehran and...
Palau is a tropical paradise: an archipelago of 340 islands over an area of 466 square kilometres. Over the years, its belonged to the Spanish, the Germans, and the States before the islands gained independence in 1994, and became a presidential republic in free association with the United States. Today,...
UK and Swedish tour operators appear to be overcoming misgivings over a requirement that visitors present a negative Covid-19 test on arrival and are beginning to bring tourists to Cyprus, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Friday. Passenger traffic at Cyprus’ two airports was 39,874 in June, 196,000 in July...
The situation in the eastern Mediterranean is becoming increasingly alarming and the EU needs to act swiftly and decisively to address Turkey’s threats against the bloc’s collective interests, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Friday. He was speaking after talks in Nicosia with Malta’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs...
An Ayia Napa-based band has stormed the iTunes charts in the UK, Sweden and Cyprus with an EP of five original songs recorded during the lockdown. Released on August 28, Lost Vegas’ EP titled Mexico (containing a single of the same name) reached number ten in the UK iTunes chart,...
The Larnaca district office on Friday rejected criticism from the lifeguards association, saying that the number of lifeguards and the hours they work on each beach was governed by the national scheme Salamis, drawn up by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in 2018 and updated each year. The announcement...
By Alexia Saleem “Mama, I want something to eat.” I look at my four-year-old son, Leonidas, who has eaten half an hour earlier. I bite my lip and sigh inwardly, while simultaneously scrambling to get creative because I know we don’t have anything he’s going to be in the mood...
