RAINY WEATHER SET TO CONTINUE - DROP IN TEMPERATURE COMING

 Filenews 26 December 2025

The weather will be cloudy today, while according to the Meteorological Service, rains and thunderstorms are expected.

The temperature will rise to around 18 degrees inland, around 20 on the coast and around 10 degrees in the higher mountains.

SUEZ CANAL RETURN COULD DENT GLOBAL CONTAINER SHIP DEMAND

 Cyprus Mail 26 December 2025 - by Souzana Psara

A potential return to normal Red Sea and Suez Canal routings looms large over the container shipping market outlook, with the shift expected to have a material impact on ship demand and overall market balance in the coming years.

In its Container Shipping Market Overview and Outlook for December, Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) points to an increased likelihood that carriers may gradually resume Suez Canal transits in the not-too-distant future, a development that could lower ship demand by around 10 per cent.

CRIME ROUND UP

Pafos Live 26 December2025

 

A tragic incident occurred on Christmas Day in Nicosia, when shortly after midnight a fire broke out in a storage area on the roof of an apartment building. During the investigation of the scene, a charred body of unidentified identity was found.

According to the first information, members of the Police and the Fire Service immediately rushed to the scene, who proceeded to immediately extinguish the fire.

WHAT ARE THERE 2,962 OF IN CYPRUS?

Cyprus Mail 26 December 2025 - by Morgan West

 Here’s a quick quiz. Ready? Off we go…

1. What are there 2,962 of in Cyprus?

2. What’s another name for Boxing Day?

3. When did Good King Wenceslas look out?

INDIA AND UNITED KINGDOM EMERGE AS TOP NON-EU OUTSOURCING DESTINATIONS

 Cyprus Mail 26 December 2025 - by Kyriacos Nicolaou

European enterprises increasingly reorganised their operations between 2021 and 2023 by relocating business activities to partners abroad, a trend primarily driven by a desire to reduce costs and sharpen focus on core competencies, according to the latest Global Value Chains survey.

International sourcing, often referred to as outsourcing, involves the partial or full relocation of business activities by enterprises to affiliated or non-affiliated partners located abroad, said Eurostat in its summary of how these movements affect production and employment within the bloc.

AFTER YEARS, MYSTERY OF 'CAT COVID' SOLVED

 Cyprus Mail 25 December 2025 - by Theo Panayides

The deadly virus in question, called FCoV-23, is actually a hybrid virus a genetic mix of a cat coronavirus and a dog coronavirus

It was the dogs’ fault – sort of

The cause behind the ‘cat Covid’ epidemic of 2023 has now been established, according to a UK team led by a Cypriot scientist.

‘Cyprus becomes “island of dead cats” after outbreak of feline coronavirus kills 300,000,’ went the headline in The Telegraph in July of that year. ‘Why deadly cat virus in Cyprus could be “potentially catastrophic for UK”,’ catastrophised Sky News in August. ‘New feline coronavirus blamed for thousands of cat deaths in Cyprus’ was the title of an article in Science.

THE LONG-STANDING WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY - THEOPEMPTOU SOUNDS THE ALARM

 Filenews 26 December 2025

The vulnerabilities in the issue of waste management, from the absence of separate collection and the non-formation of old garbage dumps to their burial instead of recycling (even when they reach the recyclers), points out the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Mr. Charalambos Theopemptou, a few months before handing over the baton, given that he will not be in the next Parliament.

It also indicates that liquid waste is being dumped at the Polemidia dam, while the preparation for the management of plastic bottles has not even begun. It refers to the lack of control over the recycling process of electrical and electronic devices, which some dismantle in order to utilize, while at the same time chairs, sofas and furniture that could be used are discarded.