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1 week ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Theo Panayides |Gwynne Dyer
I was just idly looking at the casualty numbers the other day, and I noticed that there was something badly wrong with them. This will take a little time and a few stats, but it’s worth staying with it. The number of civilians killed in Ukraine in three years of war, most of them from rockets, bombs and shells but a small proportion by bullets, is 12,605.
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1 week ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Theo Panayides |Alix Norman
Eight years ago, on my first day living in Latsia, I lost my credit card!I didn’t know I’d lost it – I’d been scoping my local kiosk, dropped it outside, and driven off in total ignorance. Not five minutes later, as I was pulling into my driveway, I got a call. In the time it had taken me to get home, a passing stranger had noticed my card, picked it up, and handed it in to the police station! ‘I’m going to like Latsia!’ I thought.
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1 week ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Theo Panayides |Charles Ellinas
In an article in MEES, Peter Stevenson reveals that ExxonMobil’s Electra well in block 5 was unsuccessful. It encountered gas, but not in commercial quantities. There were high expectations that Electra could contain as much as 30tcf gas. The drilling rig will now move to block 10 to drill the Pegasus well, with more moderate expectations.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Will Hawkes |Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Theo Panayides
By Will HawkesAs I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, pelting like bullets past me. I hauled open the car door and breathed a sigh of relief once inside. I was surrounded by millions of flies, amid the most incredible migration event I have ever seen. The migration cameras my team and I use to monitor these insects counted nearly 6,000 flies per metre per minute.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Johanna Pauls
With renewed fears of a prolonged downturn in the crypto space, many investors are shifting their attention away from high-cap tokens and toward utility-based projects showing steady growth. While broader market sentiment remains cautious, especially as Bitcoin struggles to maintain momentum, certain low-cap tokens like Mutuum Finance (MUTM) are gaining traction for their real-world use cases and long-term potential.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Johanna Pauls
The much-anticipated REALTYon 2025 is set to take Cyprus by storm this year, returning for its third edition, at the spectacular City of Dreams Mediterranean in Limassol. Scheduled to take place on May 8th & 9th, this year’s event promises to be the largest one yet, uniting key players from the region’s real estate market in one location. What is REALTYon?
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Johanna Pauls
President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey is not expecting a negative situation for its trade, production and exports as a result of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which went into effect on Wednesday. Turkey is among the economies that escaped with the lowest “reciprocal” US tariff of 10 per cent and is viewed as being among a handful of countries emerging as potential winners.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Johanna Pauls |Rebekah Gregoriades
The police have issued a warning about yet another scam, this time about scammers posing as the Cyprus Post and calling on people to pay postal fees. The scammers inform potential victims that their parcels cannot be delivered due to insufficient information and encourage them to fill in their details by following a link. People are urged not to disclose personal details in any links online. The police said scammers are still sending out messages for unpaid fines.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Johanna Pauls |Charalambos Stylianou
In a landmark ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Constitutional Court has struck down the country’s 2024 copyright management law in its entirety, declaring it unconstitutional. The unanimous judgement found that the legislation, passed last July by the House, violated three key articles of the constitution, articles 23, 26 and 179.1, which protect property rights, freedom of contract and the supremacy of the constitution, respectively.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Tom Cleaver |Constantinos Psillides |Johanna Pauls |Charalambos Stylianou
Nicosia Criminal Court approved on Wednesday an amended charge sheet, during the trial of Simon Aykut, the businessman accused of unlawfully exploiting Greek Cypriot properties in the north. The approval followed a request by the prosecution service. The defence raised no objection to the changes, which were presented alongside a list of 12 new witnesses the state intends to call. Defence lawyer Maria Neophytou also accepted this addition without dispute.
