Azerbaijan declared on Monday it had seized dozens more settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after proclaiming victory in the battle for the enclave’s strategically positioned second-largest city. After six weeks of heavy fighting, Azerbaijan said on Sunday it had captured Shusha, known by Armenians as Shushi, which sits on a...
Amid a protracted and worrying spike in the number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalised patients, President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday evening held an urgent meeting with his team of experts but held off announcing new measures – at least for tonight. He told reporters that the situation, both as...
UN envoy Jane Hall Lute will visit Cyprus towards the end of this month for preliminary contacts in view of the secretary general’s plans to convene an informal five party conference on Cyprus, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said on Monday. In a written statement, Koushos said that President Nicos Anastasiades...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had “terminated” Defence Secretary Mark Esper, appearing to use his final months in office after his Nov. 3 election defeat to settle scores within his administration. Trump, who publicly split with Esper in recent months over a range of issues, said...
A nurse at the Eoka rehabilitation centre in Palodia has tested positive for coronavirus but tests among her contacts so far have come back negative, its director Savvas Savva told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. He said the health professional, who works at rehabilitation unit for elderly residents, tested...
Limassol criminal court on Monday handed down an eight year and a four-year jail sentence to two men found guilty on drug charges in two separate cases. In the first instance a 40-year old found guilty of supplying 2 kilos of cannabis and conspiring to acquire 500 grams of MDMA...
The government will keep modernising the armed forces so that they remain a potent deterrent, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Monday. He was speaking after presenting to MPs the ministry’s budget for 2021, beefed up by approximately €70 million compared to 2020. Outlining the ministry’s strategies, Petrides highlighted the...
An emotional Robert MacIntyre revealed how he had struggled to deal with the coronavirus lockdown after producing a brilliant finish to claim his first European Tour title in the Cyprus Showdown. MacIntyre birdied four of his last six holes at Aphrodite Hills to card a seven-under-par 64 and finish a...
CULTURESCOPE is a Cypriot lifestyle and entertainment web show, exclusive to Cyprus Mail’s new interactive web portal, Good Living. Hosted by Paul Lambis, the show places great emphasis on a quality lifestyle that is in keeping with international trends in décor, travel, fashion, glamour, sport, film, theatre, music, art, talent,...
The Health Ministry announced 111 new coronavirus cases from 2111 tests on Monday, as the number of patients in hospital rose to a record 85 and the total number of cases since the start of the outbreak surged above 6000. The ministry said the number of tests is clearly lower...
Since the coronavirus outbreak in March, the health ministry has spent €45.4 million on virus related expenditures, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said Monday while presenting his ministry’s budget for 2021. He said state hospitals are being reconfigured to care for more coronavirus patients, with private healthcare facilities placed on standby...
Nagorno–Karabakh‘s ethnic Armenian leadership said on Monday it had lost control of the mountain enclave’s second-largest city and that Azeri forces were closing in on Stepanakert, its seat of power. After six weeks of heavy fighting, Azerbaijan said on Sunday it had captured Shusha, which is known by Armenians as...
The Cyber Safety help line recorded a 76 per cent increase on the calls received over the third trimester this year in comparison with the same period last year, according to data published by the Cyprus pedagogical institute of the education ministry on Monday. According to the institute, which is...
Sadhguru is interviewed by Simon Kemp, MD of ‘We Are Social’, about marketing, business, commerce and the direction they have taken today. Everything you have done in life so far has been in pursuit of a single thing. Whether you sought a career, started a business, made money, or built...
Joseph Robinette Biden (Jr) was born on the 20th day of November 1942 to his mother, Catherine Eugenia Biden and father, Joseph Robinette Biden (Sr) at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pennslyvania. Biden is the first of four children born of the union between his parents. Joe Biden’s family at...
President Nicos Anastasiades has appointed Persefoni Panayi Cleanthous as the new supreme court president, it was announced on Monday. Cleanthous will succeed Stelios Nathanael who is retiring after around 146 days in office. He took office on June 18. The new president will be affirmed during a ceremony at the presidential...
The football association (CFA) said Monday it has received a notification from European governing body Uefa of suspected match fixing in a second division fixture. The CFA said the notice concerns suspicious betting activity in the October 30 game between Aris and Alki which ended 4-1 to the home side....
Civil society groups said the government was paying lip service and refused to attend the “pointless” anti-corruption meeting held by the president on Monday. “The current political system is directly involved with corruption and is not in a position to discuss and put terms against corruption,” said Constantinos Christofides from...
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday hosted groups and organisations to discuss anti-corruption measures although the meeting was snubbed by others, which deemed it a PR stunt. Monday’s meeting followed one last week where government departments tasked with crime fighting had met with the president. The aim is to collect suggestions...
By Katie Wright Who could have predicted that loungewear would explode into the biggest fashion story of 2020? According to Google data, searches for ‘loungewear’ have increased by 119 per cent in the past year, seeing a 140 per cent spike in recent weeks. With working from home still the...
Moving to pre-empt parents’ associations from taking matters into their own hands, the education ministry has reiterated that health protocols for the coronavirus do not provide for specific schools to close, irrespective of the number of pupils or staff who may have tested positive. Monday’s written announcement follows an outbreak...
One of the most unpredictable, competitive, and intriguing seasons in the Cyprus first division continued over the weekend. After setbacks for all but one of the top five clubs in the league and a stuttering start to Mick McCarthy’s Apoel tenure, it has become nearly impossible to pick a heavy...
The health ministry on Monday said it would investigate the living conditions of Cypra slaughterhouse workers in Kati Moni, where 92 of them tested positive for coronavirus, after a report by Green Party MP Yiorgos Perdikis. According to Cybc, Perdikis made serious accusations surrounding the Cypra slaughterhouse during a meeting...
