UN envoy returning to Cyprus for talks
The UN secretary-general’s special envoy for Cyprus, Angela Holguin Cuellar, is expected to visit the island on Tuesday for a new round of contacts.
Deferred May Day to affect services, shops
Business will not be resuming quite as usual on Tuesday after the long Easter break, as the May Day holiday was deferred by a week in observance of Good Wednesday.
Property prices expected to start easing soon
Real estate market professionals believe that a moderate reduction in house prices is possible in the coming months.
Countless life forms in the universe
“Teachers who make physics boring are criminals.” With this quote, the famous physicist and former MIT professor Walter Lewin summarizes the meaning of his lectures.
GNO Ballet on a new path with a new ‘Coppelia’
The Greek National Opera Ballet is set to stage a ‘sensitive and minimalist’ new take on Leo Delibes’ comic ballet ‘Coppelia,’ in a production choreographed by the multi-award-winning Edward Clug and with additional music by Milko Lazar.
Campaigning for Euro elections resumes after Easter break
After the Easter respite, party leaders resume their pre-election campaigns on Tuesday, as we enter the last stretch before the European Parliament elections.
14 historic confectioneries that are a reason to travel around Greece
For all of us Gastronomos travelers, no mission is complete without a stop for something sweet at a local confectionery.
Cyprus rejects Chevron’s ‘Aphrodite’ plan
Cyprus’ Energy Ministry announced on Thursday that it has rejected the proposal Chevron, the managing company of the “Aphrodite” natural gas field.
Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece.
Greek MEP decries ‘baseless’ incarceration of Himare mayor-elect
The conviction by the Albanian authorities of Himare mayor-elect Fredi Beleri is “flimsy and baseless,” the chairman of the EU-Albania Joint Parliamentary Stabilization and Association Committee and New Democracy MEP Manolis Kefalogiannis reiterated on Monday after visiting the jailed ethnic-Greek politician.