Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the newest national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced Monday a highly anticipated new route to Larnaca starting on 3 October. Tickets are already on sale on wizzair.com and the airline’s mobile app with fares starting as low as €29.99 (one way). “The addition of another route to Wizz Air’s
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Cyprus is sweltering under another July heatwave with the met office issuing an extreme weather warning for Monday with maximum temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius. The Department of Meteorology issued an extremely high-temperature alert, awareness level “Yellow” as the three-day heatwave continues to grip the island. The new yellow alert comes into force
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Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides joins his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday at the Foreign Affairs Council to discuss regional moves by Turkey. The Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the issue of Turkey will be the focus of the meeting with EU Foreign Ministers holding a strategic discussion in light of developments in
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Cyprus health authorities reported a jump in new cases of the Covid19 virus with seven instances reported on Sunday, breaking the month-long pattern of single or no cases of the pandemic reported daily. This brings the total of coronavirus cases in the Republic to 1,021 and 19 deaths since the March lockdown. The new cases
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Cyprus universities pose an alternative choice for Cypriots who face higher UK tuition fees with no access to students loans post-Brexit, argue academics. Following a UK government decision which essentially means that Cypriot students will have to pay higher fees from 2021, many are thinking twice about studying at British universities. In comments to the
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If you look very closely, underneath the sheen of a modern European Cyprus there is the remnant of a Cold War legacy that could quickly come back into focus as the world polarizes. Historians or amateur conspiracy theorists will argue that Cyprus is a victim of the Cold War, collusion by the West for partitioning
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The Cabinet announced this week it is going to establish a new junior ministry, this time for culture, complementing the three new portfolios established in the past two years – shipping, tourism, and innovation. In the case of shipping, the first deputy ministry to be established, it was a necessary evolution of the former government
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Appetite for app-based food delivery services has risen significantly in Cyprus while demand spiked during the coronavirus pandemic attracting new players like Bolt. Cyprus could not be left behind as the business of delivering meals is experiencing a drastic change with new online platforms racing to capture markets across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the
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Cyprus health authorities announced on Saturday one new confirmed COVID-19 case, a close contact of someone who had travelled from Romania recently. The positive case was detected from 1,748 laboratory tests carried out, bringing the total number of infections since the outbreak to 1,014. The individual who tested positive was a close contact of a
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Cyprus is feeling the impact of global warming witnessing extreme climate conditions, unpredictable weather patterns, floods, unseasonal pressure systems, fires, extreme heat and cold, argue scientists. Just in the past month, Cyprus has witnessed four cases of unseasonal weather conditions, with experts warning these are signs of climate change. A low-pressure system this week had
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