Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) won a reduced sprint in Cordoba in the seventh stage of the Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain) cycle race to claim his second stage of…
Month: August 2024
New Zealand in control in America’s Cup preliminary round
America’s Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand showed their dominance in the second day of the preliminary regattas in Barcelona on Friday. The New Zealand crew won their opening race against INEOS…
Baltic mutual medical assistance plan being mulled
Officials from the Baltic states — Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania — have been negotiating the provision of critical medicines in crises, reported LETA, Latvia’s national information agency. On Friday, the Baltic States…
Limassol police seize two suitcases full of various types of drugs
Limassol police have seized two suitcases full of various types of drugs in a vehicle, following a tip-off. Officers discovered 10 kilograms of cannabis, 60 kilograms of a substance called “king gummies”…
July 2024 was the hottest July in the climate history of Cyprus
According to the data of the Meteorological Office, July 2024 was the hottest July in the climate history of Cyprus. A high temperature warning was issued for 13 nights in July. Cyprus…
Drying dams in Cyprus is ‘like a nightmare’
The water situation at dams in Cyprus is “like a nightmare” and the capacity rate in some of them had dropped to 10 percent. Phileleftheros reported in his news report titled “The…
Namibia experiencing its worst drought in 100 years
Namibia is experiencing its worst drought in 100 years, with 84 percent of its food reserves already exhausted, UN humanitarians said on Friday. About 1.4 million people, or nearly half of the…
Delaying a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip increases the risk of polio
Delaying a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip increases the risk of polio spreading among children, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) warned…
Biden and Sisi discuss ceasefire prospects in Gaza
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the Gaza ceasefire negotiations on Friday during a phone call, focusing on the mediation efforts led by their countries. The Egyptian Presidency…
Turkey: ‘The high cost of living is a burden for us’
Arda Asrakci, a young man from Türkiye’s capital Ankara, is gearing up for university, but the economic challenges facing the country are casting a shadow over his future. “The high cost of…