Limassol and Paphos districts will enter an almost complete lockdown, beginning Thursday night and lasting until November 30, with the focus on restricting movement. The curfew in those two districts will be from 8pm to 5am while movement in or out of the districts will be prohibited almost entirely...
Mont Saint-Michel emerges from the tides in Normandy, France, like an ancient village from a fairytale. The coastal town built on a massive granite rock cuts a dramatic silhouette against the sky, rising from disappearing marshes to a Gothic Abbey at its height. With a permanent population of around 50,...
Cyprus were beaten 2-1 by Greece in an international friendly at the Giorgios Kamaras stadium in Rizoupoli Athens on Wednesday afternoon, extending their winless run to over a year. The visitors got off to a terrible start, conceding twice in the opening 20 minutes Greece opened the score in the...
There are some extremely strange phenomena caught in the sky on camera you’ll be amazed by. Here are the strangest phenomena in the sky caught on camera.
The health ministry announced 165 new cases and four more deaths on Wednesday, bringing the total of Covid-19 related deaths in the past two days to seven. The new cases were discovered out of 3,291 tests and raises the total number recorded since March to 6,461. The latest data also...
A 38-year-old man is in critical condition following an accident along the Emba-Tala road in Paphos after he lost control of the car. According to the police, the accident occurred at 05:55 on Wednesday when the man’s car fell a metre onto a field below the road. After the fall,...
Most opposition parties warned on Wednesday that it would be risky for the Greek Cypriot side to attend an informal five-party summit on the Cyprus issue, to be convened by UN secretary-general, given Turkey’s insistence on a two-state solution. They were speaking after political leaders met with President Nicos Anastasiades...
The European Union has struck a deal to initially pay less for Pfizer’s PFE.N COVID-19 vaccine candidate than the United States, an EU official told Reuters as the bloc announced on Wednesday it had secured an agreement for up to 300 million doses. The experimental drug, developed in conjunction with Germany’s BioNTech 22UAy.DE,...
A 37-year-old man who was in Cyprus illegally was arrested by the counter-terrorism unit on Wednesday for threatening President Nicos Anastasiades online. Police confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that investigations include terrorism related suspicions. The arrest was made at a village in Limassol district. Due to the sensitive nature of...
Heavy rain flooded streets in Nicosia on Wednesday with the met office forecasting more unsettled weather for tomorrow. Photos published on social media showed flooded streets in Nicosia’ Ayios Andreas and Ayios Dhometios’ neighbourhoods after a heavy downpour. Earlier, the met office had issued a yellow alert warning of isolated...
MPs decided on Wednesday to set up an ad hoc committee to examine the various proposals submitted to improve the legislation governing the submission of officials’ asset statements, a practice that has been dubbed a farce. Ethics committee chairman Zaharias Zahariou said the existing framework does not allow people to...
A 47-year old man was remanded for two days by Limassol district court on suspicion of shooting and killing a woman’s cat. According to a police announcement, the complaint was filed by a woman who said that a little after 3 pm yesterday afternoon as she was in her apartment,...
The Government should take note of the results of this survey and respond to the views of the people and not just try to protect the status quo by bowing to the ultra-selfish personal desires of the political and business “elite”. The Government must improve its clarity and performance in...
This October, HR Innovate was awarded a Digital Transformation Grant by the Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry of the Republic of Cyprus. The grant is officially known as the “Funding Scheme for the Digital Transformation of Companies” and is designed to aid in the digital transformation of local companies....
Bahrain‘s Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, the world’s longest serving prime minister who put down opposition unrest repeatedly during his near half century in power, has died, authorities said on Wednesday. Sheikh Khalifa, a dominant figure in the Gulf Arab island’s politics, passed away on Wednesday morning at Mayo...
The new justice and defence ministers have significant assets, according to their capital statements submitted to authorities under transparency law and published on the website of the House of Representatives. Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides and deputy shipping minister Vasilis Demetriades were appointed in the summer as...
Opposition Diko MP Pavlos Mylonas on Wednesday handed the justice minister documents containing allegations of corruption against officials at various government departments relating to migration and asylum. Mylonas said afterwards that this was information he had collected himself and it was his view that it should be probed by criminal...
Kenny McLean vowed to savour the occasion as he looks to help Scotland end a 23-year wait for qualification for a major tournament. The hopes of a nation rest on the shoulders of the players Steve Clarke entrusts in Thursday’s Euro 2020 play-off final against Serbia in Belgrade. But McLean...
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Dozens of volunteers got to work cleaning the seabed at Larnaca Marina and fishing haven collecting more than 1470 kilos of rubbish including tyres, batteries, bicycles, fans, chairs, kitchen appliances and tins. They were joined by volunteers who collected bottles, cigarettes butts and plastic straws from Mackenzie beach. The clean...
The Weeks of the German Language, organised by the Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe Institut in Cyprus, continue with two more films to be screened at Rialto Theatre this week. The first film, on tonight is Lara, a German film produced in 2019. The storyline begins with...
Hong Kong‘s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers said on Wednesday they will resign in protest against the dismissal of four of their colleagues from the city assembly after Beijing gave local authorities new powers to further curb dissent. The Chinese parliament adopted a resolution earlier in the day allowing the city’s executive to...
A four-member panel tasked with investigating the island’s controversial citizenship by investment programme since its inception by the previous administration has started probing cases deemed high risk, one of its members said on Wednesday. Demetra Kalogirou, who is the head of the securities and exchange commission (CySEC), told the Cyprus...
By Richard Dickenson There has always been hate crime. No prizes for guessing which team we Welsh rugby fanatics hated most. If we could inflict any punishments in the scrum that was always good news. The French got a bit of the same, but the Irish and the Scots, never,...
A newly developed ‘liquid window’ can block sunlight to keep a building cool but also absorb heat to be gradually released during the day or night to cut energy costs, scientists said. The window, invented by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), uses a hydrogel-based liquid between glass panels...
