Cyprus dog shelters are overwhelmed with a daily intake of abandoned canines due to COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis, while adoptions from the UK – where the majority go – have plunged due to Brexit, volunteers say. Volunteers told the Cyprus News Agency Friday there has been an “unprecedented” rise in dog abandonments and called
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Cyprus reported three new coronavirus deaths this week, raising the toll since the pandemic started to 1,152, while new cases dropped further to 2,130 and hospitalisations down to 73. New cases dropped from last week’s level of 3,611, while hospitalisation dropped from 84 a week ago. The Health Ministry said in its weekly Covid-19 bulletin
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Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has lashed out at authorities over the deportation of the migrant Georgian father of a 15-year-old born and raised in Cyprus. In a letter to Interior Minister Nikos Nouris, Michaelidou criticised the authority for going ahead with deporting the father under inhumane conditions, despite her previous intervention. She said
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Russian anti-war activists in Cyprus have vowed to continue holding protests against the invasion of Ukraine despite, they say, becoming the target of a threat after their faces appeared on a billboard site draped in black ribbons. The pictures of nine activists appeared in late July on the seafront in Limassol, a city popular with
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More than 17% of the population (154,000) in Cyprus were at risk of poverty or social exclusion last year, according to a study on income and living conditions. The Statistical Service said that 17.3% lived in households whose disposable income was below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold or was severely materially and socially deprived or living in
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The University of Cyprus is among the top 501-600 universities in the world this year, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the “Shanghai Ranking”. In a statement issued on Thursday, the UCy said it had improved its ranking compared to 2021 when it was ranked among the 601-700 best
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Turkey’s possible purchase of S-400 missile systems from Russia would violate American sanctions, while any expansion of Ankara-Moscow defence ties would be a grave mistake, declared a senior US senator. US Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned the NATO ally against buying Russian missiles. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin
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The fourth case of monkeypox was identified in Cyprus, with the island’s health authorities confirming it to be the first local transmission. The case involves a 46-year-old man who tested positive for the virus following a molecular laboratory test carried out by the microbiological laboratory at Nicosia General. Health authorities said he had no prior
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Cypriot authorities said attempts to dig up protected sea turtle nests over a land development row in the island’s largest nature reserve were ‘unexcusable’ and undo decades of conservation work. The government’s fisheries department warned residents in the Akamas northwest region that Cyprus sea turtles and their eggs have been protected by law since 1971.
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Cyprus’ tourism sector is holding the fort, keeping the economy running despite blows from the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine, argue government officials, encouraged by July arrivals. According to CyStat data, 454,657 visitors came for a Cyprus holiday in July, up 52.9% from 297,308 in July 2021. Tourist arrivals from
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