Archive May 2022

Israel’s central bank said on Monday it had received public support for its plans to possibly issue a digital shekel on grounds it would help the economy by supporting ...

Years after its sale to Vodafone, the poorly run CyTA Hellas – the Greek subsidiary of the Cypriot state telecom – continues to haunt public finances. In a just-released special report on ...

The bank employees’ union Etyk has invited all its members to district general assemblies next week to vote on strike measures. The union has been in a dispute over pay ...

Famagusta district court fined two tourists, aged 32 and 38, in separate cases related to breach of the peace while drunk among other offences. The 32-year-old tourist was found drunk by officers ...

Cyprus will have ten aerial firefighting means at its disposal this year, it emerged after a wide-ranging meeting on tackling and preventing fires ahead of the summer season. Reports suggested ...

The UN Security Council is due to meet on Wednesday at the request of the United States to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launches, diplomats said, as Washington pushes ...

Former Haitian Senator John Joel Joseph, a suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last July, appeared in a US court in Miami on Monday on charges of conspiracy ...

Europa Donna Cyprus has given voice to women and men, overcoming prejudice and focusing on early diagnosis and equal access to breast cancer treatment, European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakidou said ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will not carry out the opening of parliament on Tuesday as the 96-year-old monarch has had a recurrence of mobility issues, Buckingham Palace said on Monday, ...

The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece, Israel and the United States reaffirmed their shared commitment to promoting peace, stability, and prosperity in the Eastern Mediterranean during a 3+1 teleconference on Monday. ...

Greece and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday agreed to jointly fund investments worth 4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in the Mediterranean country and explore further cooperation in the energy sector, ...

Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigned on Monday to make way for a unity government that would try to find a way out of the country’s worst economic crisis ...

Short-seller Hindenburg Research warned on Monday that Elon Musk’s $44-billion (€41 billion) offer to take Twitter Inc TWTR.N private could get repriced lower if the Silicon Valley billionaire walked ...

Six out of ten people in Cyprus agree with the legalisation of euthanasia according to a survey by the national bioethics committee presented to MPs on Monday. The survey is ...

Germany and Qatar have hit difficulties in talks over long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deals amid differences over key conditions, including the duration of any contract, three people familiar ...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr was headed for a stunning victory in the Philippines’ presidential election on Monday with double the votes of his nearest rival, putting the son of the notorious ...

A teary Boston-area software worker on Monday testified that celebrity chef Mario Batali groped and squeezed her “sensitive feminine areas” five years ago at a Boston bar while posing with ...

Diseases of the circulatory system remained the top cause of death in 2020, while Covid-19 accounted for two per cent of all recorded fatalities, according to data just released by the ...

The European Commission is considering offering landlocked eastern European Union states more money to upgrade oil infrastructure in a bid to convince them to agree to an embargo on Russian ...

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign if police decide he broke Covid-19 rules, putting pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has refused to ...

The independent union of Cyprus’ public employees (ASDYK) and its police branch on Monday called for the recruitment of permanent officers instead of the proposed recruitment of 300 special constables on ...

Vice-president of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas warned on Sunday that the New Democracy government of Greece would not allow Russia to interfere in next year’s presidential elections in ...

Nursing students at the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) will be able to practise at a Limassol regional medical centre after the signing of three protocols of cooperation on Monday. ...

Barnet-born actor, writer and comedian Jamie Demetriou, the son of an English mother and a Greek Cypriot father, won Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the Bafta TV ...