The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing stricter legislation to clamp down on the excess or illegal use of pesticides after the Financial Mirror highlighted that Cyprus tops the EU list for bug killer residues in food. A European Food Safety Authority report released last month placed Cyprus at the top after 353 EU samples were
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. Ever feel like the older you become the more invisible you are, deemed archaic or irrelevant while society prefers to walk around the elderly, ignoring them, pretending not to see them. They are the pre-digital generation that WhatsApp, Instagram and twitter forgot, greying-out figures that clutter supermarket aisles, hospital wards and pay no attention
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. Tiny Cyprus will never be invited by the big boys to play on the top table of the regional geopolitical game, no matter how hard we try, despite the momentum of trilateral or quadrilateral alliances the Republic may embark on. At best, we can be a friendly bystander watching the game from afar, without
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A meeting between Halloumi industry stakeholders took place on Friday to discuss the traditional cheese’s future, a few days before a deadline for filing objections against Cyprus’ bid to reclaim the UK trademark. The informal meeting comes just days after a UK court extended the deadline for objections to Cyprus reclaiming the UK trademark. It
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. By Makis Georghiou Just when the Greek Energy Minister thought he could take a short August break, after a hectic first 30 days of the Mitsotakis administration, a stern warning from Brussels has exposed the wavering attitude Athens has chosen by succumbing to pressure from Chinese-controlled transmission system operator ADMIE over the Attica-Crete
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Cypriot leaders on Friday failed to break the deadlock in resuming stalled UN-backed peace talks that collapsed 25 months ago but agreed to meet UN chief Antonio Guterres in September. “The two leaders also decided to announce their readiness to hold a tripartite meeting with the Secretary-General after the United Nations General Assembly in order
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Some 650 kilos of waste was collected from the Cyprus coastline and its seabed during the three-month `Zero Waste Beach’ campaign. A total of four cleaning campaigns took place at the sea bottom and 17 along the Cyprus coastline from May to July. The program is organised by AKTI Project and Research Centre and Coca-Cola
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were meeting in Nicosia’s UN compound on Friday in an effort to resume peace negotiations that collapsed in Switzerland two years ago. Their informal morning meeting is the first since February and takes place amid tensions surround Turkey’s illegal drilling activities in Cyprus’ exclusive economic
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APOEL FC have signed German manager Thomas Doll, soon after losing 2-1 at home to Azerbaijan’s Qarabaq in a Champions League qualifier in Nicosia on Tuesday. Doll is a well-known German manager and footballer who wore the jersey of teams likes Hansa Rostock, Hamburger SV, Lazio, and Eintracht Frankfurt and Bari, while playing 43 times
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Natalie Christopher, a British-Cypriot woman, found at the bottom of a ravine on the island of Ikaria after going missing for two days, died as the result of a fall, said a Greek coroner. The 34-year-old, who was last seen going for a run on Monday, was found down a ravine close to where she
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