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Today’s weather: Rains and thunderstorms expected inland and in the higher mountains

Today, the weather will initially be mainly clear, but an increase in cloud cover is expected around midday, bringing isolated showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures will rise to 35 degrees Celsius in the interior, around 31 degrees on the west and southwest coasts, around 32 degrees on the rest of the coasts and 25 degrees in […]

19.08.2026 08:20

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Greeks turn to package holidays and foreign destinations as cost pressures reshape travel habits

Greek travellers are shifting decisively toward package holidays, overseas destinations and off-peak bookings this year, as economic strain and geopolitical…

19.08.2026 08:07

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Harvard agrees to pay $53 million over morgue body-parts scandal

Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to resolve lawsuits by families alleging it mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school and whose parts were then sold on the black market by the former manager of its morgue. A state court judge in Boston on Tuesday preliminarily approved a class […]

19.08.2026 08:00

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AI could strengthen financial stability monitoring

Artificial intelligence could significantly improve the monitoring of financial stability risks by identifying potential economic and financial threats before they materialise through the analysis of millions of financial news reports, according to a European Central Bank (ECB) working paper. The research, titled “A SPOT in the dark: using AI to assess financial stability risks“, introduced […]

19.08.2026 08:00

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Shipping through Strait of Hormuz slows amid reopening uncertainty

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed, data showed on Wednesday, as most shipowners avoided the key waterway because of a lack of clear signalling on its reopening from a blockade during the Iran war. Six commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, Kpler data showed by 0258 GMT, down from nine a day earlier […]

19.08.2026 07:53

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Cyprus Business Now: tourism, DP World Limassol, gaming, crypto, digital euro

Cyprus has broken into Europe’s ten largest video game industries by revenue, with more than 400 companies on the island generating an estimated €3.2 billion from games in 2025. The finding comes from the first industry report published by the Cyprus Game Makers Association (CYGMA), which attempts to measure a sector that has expanded rapidly but remained […]

19.08.2026 07:30

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Global video surveillance market reaches $27 billion as AI reshapes sector

The global video surveillance market grew by 4.3 per cent to $27 billion in 2025, according to a repor from research firm Omdia, as rising demand from artificial intelligence data centres and changing regulations reshape the security industry. The report found that the sector is undergoing a major transformation, with new deployment strategies, changing storage […]

19.08.2026 06:00

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Nvidia to provide up to $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI’s Ohio data center

Nvidia has agreed to provide a guarantee of up to $105 billion to help OpenAI lease a sprawling data center in Ohio ​being developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy, in one of the chipmaker’s largest infrastructure financing commitments. The Jensen Huang-led firm said on Monday it will also invest $1.5 ‌billion in SB Energy, months after […]

19.08.2026 05:45

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Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65 billion, source says

Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate topped $65 billion by the end of July, a person familiar with ​the matter said on Monday, underscoring the Claude ‌creator’s rapid growth ahead of a potential public listing later this year. The AI startup’s latest revenue run rate — a ​metric that projects annual performance by extrapolating ​current sales […]

19.08.2026 05:30

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Kidney disease is also a brain disease. Here’s why

Generally speaking, when we think of ‘kidney disease’, we think of dialysis or a kidney transplant. But it is…

19.08.2026 05:18

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Decisions expected next week over Kalo Chorio firing range blaze

Decisions over possible disciplinary action in connection with last month’s fire sparked by the destruction of munitions at the Kalo Chorio firing range are expected next week, defence ministry sources told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the findings of two separate investigations into the fire on July 27, an internal National Guard inquiry conducted […]

19.08.2026 04:24

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Our View: Idea that all beaches must have lifeguards is absurd

The shortage of lifeguards became a big issue after a 35-year-old mother drowned on Saturday while swimming with her two daughters. It was the fifth drowning in the last two months, prompting calls for more lifeguards, because there are many unmanned towers, and longer hours of duty, because most finish work at 6pm. The working […]

19.08.2026 04:20

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Sudanese mothers dying in childbirth as war cuts off access to hospital care, UN warns

Pregnant women in Sudan’s Central Darfur region are losing their babies, and in some cases their own lives, owing to…

19.08.2026 04:02

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New “Ugarit 2” undersea cable to link Cyprus and Syria by 2028, report says

A new undersea fibre-optic cable connection, “Ugarit 2”, is to replace the existing “Ugarit” link between south Cyprus and Syria,…

19.08.2026 03:26

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Turkey’s trade with Turkic states hits $9.4 billion in first half of year, led by Kazakhstan

Turkey’s trade with the Turkic republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan reached $9.4 billion in the first six…

19.08.2026 01:00

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US sanctions International Criminal Court president, senior lawyer

The U. S. imposed sanctions on Tuesday on the International Criminal Court’s president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The move is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against The Hague-based court, which was established in 2002 by the international community to prosecute war crimes, […]

18.08.2026 22:15

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Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from US

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the coming year, and an initial group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive in the West African nation on Thursday, a government statement said on Tuesday. It is the latest such deal struck by the Trump administration with an African […]

18.08.2026 22:08

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Turkey’s oil output hits 23.1 million barrels in first half of year, Gabar leads production

Turkey’s domestic oil production reached 23.1 million barrels in the first six months of the year, while natural gas output…

18.08.2026 22:00

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Meta targeted children to boost Facebook and Instagram use, lawyer says as landmark trial begins

Meta Platforms META.O intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a lawyer for California said on Tuesday at the start of a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet. A bipartisan group of 29 U.S. states is suing Meta, seeking potentially tens or hundreds of […]

18.08.2026 21:05

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Free live music in Cyprus’ Eastern resorts

The Protaras and Ayia Napa region is busier than ever as crowds unwind at their sandy beaches and its evenings are about to get even more fun as the2nd Music Festival continues to bring live entertainment. Throughout August, September and October, live music performances, offered for free, ‘dress’ the season’s evenings with melodies. The Municipality […]

18.08.2026 19:54

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Cyprus and Italy conduct joint military exercise off Limassol coast

The National Guard on Monday conducted the joint military exercise with the Italian Navy off the southern coast of Limassol. During the exercise, designated PASSEX, the navy practiced procedures for the identification and of suspicious vessels, as well as a joint boarding exercise.

18.08.2026 19:46

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Smart traffic lights to be installed in Nicosia and Limassol

The transport ministry announced on Tuesday it has launched a tender for the procurement of ‘smart’ traffic lights to be installed at locations across Nicosia and Limassol, for a project worth an estimated €41.9 million. The project is fully financed by Cyprus. The system in question will use above-ground detectors at 15 traffic light junctions […]

18.08.2026 19:42

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Ecuadorean diplomat nominated as candidate to lead UN

Ecuadorean diplomat Ivonne Baki has joined the race to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, the eighth candidate to replace Portugal’s Antonio Guterres next year, documents showed on Tuesday. Baki, who has served as an Ecuadorean government minister and as ambassador to France, Qatar and the United States, was nominated by the Pacific […]

18.08.2026 19:33

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Violators of proposed AI laws could face fines of €35 million

A legal framework governing the implementation and supervision of EU regulations concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is currently under public consultation, with the proposal as it stands stipulating hefty fines as high as €35 million in some cases. Two bills have been drafted for compliance with EU Regulation 2024/1689 which lays down harmonised […]

18.08.2026 19:23

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