Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday is set to wrap up his visit to the USA with a meeting with his counterpart, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 10.30am local time. It will focus on deepening of bilateral relations, the Cyprus problem, as well as developments in […]
Monday will be hot and clear after dissipation of early morning fog, with some intermittent clouds and slightly cooler temperatures expected. Temperatures will rise to 35C in the interior, 28C on the west coast, 30C on the remaining coasts, and 27C in the higher mountains. Winds will be mainly south- to north-westerly, light to moderate, […]
The EU drive towards green energy is seeking to harness a traditionally clean power source – with some tweaks. By Tom Cassauwers Dr Jeremy Bricker, a hydraulics and coastal engineer, is dreaming big. Somewhere on the North Sea coast, he imagines construction of a dam to manage the supply of clean energy to Europe’s “lowlands”. […]
By Michalis Sarris The euro, a symbol of European unity and economic integration, will soon welcome Bulgaria into its fold. Bulgaria, a “partial” member since the introduction of the currency board, is on the verge of full membership in the eurozone. However, as history has shown, meeting the Maastricht criteria alone is not enough to […]
By Maria Demertzis Last week’s European election results were a mixed bag. The European People’s Party and the Social Democrats, traditionally the biggest parties in Europe, held on to their respective first and second positions in the European Parliament. Meanwhile, Renew Europe (the party of liberals) and the Greens both saw substantive losses. The extreme […]
Last week, CEO Tim Cook’s Apple (AAPL.O) announced a splashy deal with OpenAI to include its powerful artificial intelligence model as a part of its voice assistant, Siri. But in the fine print of a technical document Apple published after the event, the company makes clear that Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has emerged as another winner […]
Driving up to the forestry service headquarters in late May it is easy to see why the former department director likened the Paphos forest to a church, with Stavros tis Psokas as its altar. On the route up through the villages of Peristerona, Meladia and Lysos, dry cultivations give way to vistas, peaks and a […]
An early header by Jude Bellingham was enough for England to beat Serbia 1-0 in their Group C opener at the European Championship on Sunday as they ground out a victory from a contest they initially dominated. England took the lead in the 13th minute when Bellingham burst into the six-yard box to power home […]