Archive May 2022

In today’s episode, fiery scenes erupted outside the presidential palace yesterday as sheep and goat farmers held boisterous, disruptive demonstrations. They lit fires, dumped gallons of milk and blocked ...

Jordan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ayman Al Safadi, begins a two-day working visit to Cyprus on Thursday. During the visit, he will have a tete-a-tete meeting with ...

Weekends in May perhaps have an extra touch of festivities and a good mood as more and more events pop up around the island which signals one important fact – the ...

Police on Thursday said they have uncovered a gambling den in Larnaca where 24 people were playing poker. The discovery was made as part of a police operation in the area ...

Israel activated its missile defenses on Thursday after mistakenly identifying a threat near the border with Lebanon, the Israeli military said. The incident also set off air raid sirens in ...

Nicosia police said they were investigating on Thursday after a kiosk was robbed at knifepoint. The robbery took place around 11pm when an unknown man entered the kiosk and threatening ...

Deputy Minister for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos on Tuesday afternoon engaged with the local fintech community, during an event on digital assets, entrepreneurship and financial technology. The ...

Former U.S. President George W. Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as “brutal” and “unjustified” before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia’s invasion ...

The Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday announced the approval of a 20 per cent tax cut for research and development projects. The tax cut is part of the broader strategy of ...

The growth rate of the Cypriot economy in the first quarter of 2022 remained positive, estimated to have risen by 5.8 per cent when compared to the corresponding quarter of 2021, according to ...

The positive year-over-year growth rate of the Cyprus Composite Leading Economic Index continues to slow down in April 2022. The index recorded a year-over-year increase of 2.4 per cent in April 2022, reaching ...

Seven out of ten people who contracted coronavirus in 2020-2021 are still experiencing symptoms, with over half saying they required medication, a new survey on long Covid in Cyprus has ...

On Wednesday morning the sheep and goat farmers arrived outside the presidential palace to protest about the government’s failure to ensure the PDO specs for halloumi were followed by ...

Moscow said nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Russian-held Mariupol as it shored up a key gain in the south, while the United States became the latest Western country ...

Ukraine‘s territorial defence force said on Wednesday its fighters had blown up an armoured train carrying Russian troops, but an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelinskiy later said the attack ...

The price of beer, and not gas, had golf fans fired up at the PGA Championship on Tuesday. With a can of suds going for $18, world number nine Justin Thomas ...

Thomas Tuchel believes Chelsea face a summer of “rebuilding” amid the impact of the Stamford Bridge club’s sale. Chelsea will lose Antonio Rudiger to Real Madrid and Andreas Christensen ...

Russia’s approach to the Cyprus problem has not changed as Moscow says that it continues to advocate for a solution based on UN security council resolutions. The Russian foreign ...

Russia on Wednesday said it was using a new generation of powerful laser weapons in Ukraine to burn up drones, deploying some of Moscow’s secret weapons to counter a ...

Tom Cruise rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, greeted with whoops and hollers from a crowd gathered to get a glimpse of the American star, who is attending ...

Russian artistic gymnast Ivan Kuliak has been handed a one-year ban for displaying the letter ‘Z’ on his outfit during an event in Qatar in March, the International Gymnastics Federation (...

In their battle against proposed layoffs at Hellenic Bank, the bank employees’ union (Etyk) voted almost unanimously in favour of approving a general strike if and when it is deemed ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s life story – from comedian to war-time leader – has been given the graphic novel treatment in TidalWave Comics’ latest biography, ‘Political Power: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.’ The 22-page ...

The House institutions committee continued its discussions on Wednesday about amending the law that regulates private sector employment of former high-ranking state officials from the public and wider public sector. ...