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Special envoy Lute expected back on the island next month
UN special envoy to Cyprus Jane Holl Lute is expected on the island for mid-March ahead of an informal conference tentatively scheduled to take...
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Silbo Gomero: the whistled language of La Gomera island
In this video, we travel to the Spanish island of La Gomera in the Canaries, to encounter an ancient mode of communication. Long before...
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New book from Victoria Hislop is sequel to No1 bestseller The Island
Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long- anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The...
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Bringing island’s biologists together under one umbrella
A group of 46 academics have set up a body titled the Society of Biological Sciences in Cyprus (SBSCy) whose objective is to bring together...
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Joint SAR exercise of Cyprus and France takes place near island’s coast
A joint Search and Rescue Exercise took place on Tuesday near the coast of Cyprus with the participation of units and personnel of the...
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Ports authority says island needs more space for ships
Cyprus needs more ports as there is currently not enough docking space on the island, Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) president Petros Kassas said on...
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‘We create an island within the island’ — eToro CEO
“Working in Cyprus, we create an island within an island. Our focus is implementing our own culture not benchmarking against other companies in...
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades pointed out the problems the island is faced with because of the slow rollout of COVID vaccines,
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades pointed out the problems the island is faced with because of the slow rollout of COVID vaccines, mainly due...
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Number of cigarettes smoked doubles during island’s first lockdown – study
Almost one third of the population in Cyprus are smokers who doubled their daily number of cigarettes during the first coronavirus-related...
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Fixed fares for taxis travelling to and from the island’s airports set
The Transport Ministry has set fixed fares for taxis travelling to and from the airports in Cyprus, starting on March 1. The fares include urban...
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Pilgrims gather for the Makar Sankranti festival at Sagar Island
Women worship to Hindu sun god as they take a dip at the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of “Makar...
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Barbed wire where holes are in divided island’s green line to prevent illegal migration
Cyprus authorities will put barbed wire where there are holes all around the divided island’s green line in a bid to stop entry of illegal...
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UN’s Lute to meet divided island’s two leaders on Monday
Special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Jane Holl Lute, is arriving in Cyprus on Sunday evening for a scheduled morning meeting with President...
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A whole world on island’s stamps hidden in Cyprus Postal Museum
The Cyprus Postal Museum located on Ayios Savva Street within the walls of old Nicosia has exhibits dating from the 18th century onwards,...
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Canary Islands sees more than eight-fold increase in migrants in 2020
The number of undocumented migrants arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands on rickety boats was more than eight times higher in 2020 from the...
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The traffic island that became a community garden
Nina Hamilton is a mother, gardener and wedding photographer living in the suburbs of Hobart, the capital and most populous city of the Australian...
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Covid patients increase island wide, 74 at referral hospital
The health ministry has expressed concern over the rise of patients being treated in state hospitals across the island and a meeting with...
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What’s Eaten Where: Christmas Island
Here’s an island that is both tropical and topical: not only for the season, but also regarding Covid-19… Just 52 square miles in size,...
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Famagusta hospital covid patients rise to 71, 163 island wide
The number of patients being treated for covid at Famagusta hospital, the referral institution, has risen to 71. Five of them are in...
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AKEL: Anastasiades could go down in history as leader of island’s partition
AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said President Nicos Anastasiades would go down in history as the leader of the island’s partition if he continued...