CYPRUS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY FORECAST FOR THE SEA AREA OF CYPRUS (A) FOR THE PERIOD FROM 0600 13/10/2024 UNTIL 0600 14/10/2024 Area covered is 8 kilometers seawards. Winds are in BEAUFORT scale. Times are local times. Atmospheric pressure at the time of issue: 1013hPa (hectopascal) Slack pressure gradient is affecting

ISTANBUL: Ukraine claimed on Sunday that it downed over 30 Russian drones during an overnight attack. A statement by the Ukrainian Air Force claimed that its air defenses downed 31 out of 68 Russian drones over the country’s Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Cherkasy regions. The Air Force claimed that

ISTANBUL: Vessel traffic in the Istanbul Strait has been suspended after a dry cargo ship en route from Israel to Bulgaria broke down on Saturday. “Our tugboat, KURTARMA-5, was swiftly dispatched to assist the 106-meter-long dry cargo ship B LINE, which encountered a mechanical failure near Akintiburnu in the Istanbul

“I am going to New York with the sole aim this trilateral meeting to be the first step in order to put the Cyprus problem back on the negotiating track,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday referring to a dinner he will have on Tuesday with UN Secretary General Antonio

ISTANBUL: A Palestinian prisoner receiving treatment in an Israeli hospital has died, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs announced on Sunday. According to the commission, Muhammad Munir Musa, a 37-year-old resident of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, died at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel. The authority stated that Musa

ISTANBUL: Trkiye on Saturday criticized the US decision to extend Executive Order 13894 on Syria for a further year. ‘The decision by the US Government to extend Executive Order 13894, first issued in 2019 within the context of developments in Syria, for a further year is incompatible with the realities