CYPRUS BREAKING NEWS

International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Secretary General Thomas Kazakos , the former director general of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC), joined some of the world’s leading maritime organisations in Tokyo as the shipping industry sought answers to some of its most pressing questions, from the…

The FAA lifted a nationwide ground stop on Friday after a communications failure at air traffic control centers caused chaos at US airports and triggered the longest shutdown since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said US airspace reopened at 8:15 p.m. Eastern…

Disney (DIS.N) and Adobe (ADBE.O) have struck a multi-year deal to co-develop custom generative AI models for the media giant with the goal ​of scaling AI tools across its theme parks, studio and sports ‌media businesses. The move, announced this week, will start with speeding up project…

Britain’s construction sector shrank last month at its fastest pace since June as housebuilding suffered its worst month ​of the year, a recent survey has shown. The ‌S&P Global UK Construction PMI fell to 43.6 from 46.1 in September, below every forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, whose…

Alphabet’s has Google introduced two new variations of its in-house tensor processing units, stepping up its challenge to Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) dominance in ‌the booming market for artificial intelligence chips. Alphabet shares were up more than 2 per cent in premarket trading following the…

Thousands of runners from 85 countries will gathering in Larnaca on Sunday morning for the Radisson Hotels marathon, which this year is featuring a renewed route. According to the organisers, the event is divided into categories, with the full 42km marathon, the 21km half marathon, 10km and 5km…

Schoolchildren left their classes on Friday morning for the annual condemnation of Rauf Denktash’s unilateral declaration of independence (UDI), which set up the so-called ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.’ The actual declaration was made on November 15, 1983, when none of the underaged…

US air force personnel at the RAF Lakenheath base in Britain responded to “suspected unauthorised drone activity” on Friday evening, although no personnel, aircraft or infrastructure were affected, a US air force spokesperson said. “We continue to work closely with our host nation counterparts to…

EU leaders have agreed that Europe’s team for Ukraine peace talks will comprise five major military powers – non-member Britain plus France, Germany, Italy and Poland – and EU institutions, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Friday, after months of wavering over who will speak for the…

A Spanish prosecutor on Friday expressed support for a US request to extradite pro-Palestinian donor and multimillionaire US media heir James Cox Chambers Jr, in a case Chambers’ defence says is politically motivated. Spain’s High Court will rule on the case in coming weeks. Government spokesperson…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that speed restrictions remained in place on the US Starshield satellite communications system, hampering the Ukrainian military’s ability to operate inside the country. Zelenskiy said the continued restrictions made it hard to intercept jet-powered and…

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration overstepped its authority in April when it withheld $73.5 million in highway funding from New York over the state’s refusal to revoke some commercial driver licences issued to foreign drivers. The US Transportation Department…

The UN’s human rights chief on Friday demanded the return of the body of a Yemeni staff member of his office who died of unknown causes weeks ago after being held in Houthi custody for more than two years. Mohammad el Shami’s family learned of his death on October 30, more than a month after it…

A woman was taken to hospital on Friday evening after her car overturned at a junction and ended up in the garden of a nearby house in Mesogi avenue, in the Paphos district. The police said the accident happened at 7pm and that the 42-year-old woman was taken by ambulance to the Paphos general…

Greece has sent a clear message to Ankara that it will not tolerate interventions in its electricity interconnection with Cyprus. On Friday, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said from Kurdistan that the Great Sea Interconnector was proceeding and that the Greek side had already given…

Pope Leo held the central event of his 12-day South America tour on Friday, an outdoor Mass in northern Peru where he told a vast crowd of people who once knew him as their bishop that he thanked God he was alive to see them. People arrived on foot and in lines of vehicles at an arid field outside…

Ongoing investigations into fuel prices “to make sure there are no cartels” were scrutinised on Friday by the House finance committee, which discussed the €2.75 million budget proposed for the Commission for the Protection of Competitiveness. The finance committee also looked into the…

Witness testimony on Friday confirmed previous statements that Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life in 2019 at the age of 14, had been beaten with a belt by his father. Speech therapist Niki Prodromou told the court that Stylianos felt safe and loved at school, and would write notes to her…

British police said on Friday they had opened an investigation into allegations against British comedian and best-selling children’s author David Walliams after two media organisations published accusations of sexual misconduct about him. The Guardian and ITV News on Tuesday reported that multiple…

Students staged demonstrations in Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos on Friday to protest the anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence in the occupied north. The rallies took place two days before the November 15 anniversary of the proclamation of the self-declared ‘Turkish Republic of…