Archive November 2022

African leaders have declared a cessation of hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo starting Friday, in particular attacks by the M23 rebel group, they said in a joint statement ...

Cyprus and Germany both want to strengthen and broaden their consistently excellent relations, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In post on social ...

Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday he had asked Germany to send Patriot missile launchers offered to Poland to Ukraine. “After further Russian missile attacks, I asked Germany ...

Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some are fierce – guzzling surrounding material ...

Journalist Kazim Denizci was arrested in the north on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation, reports said on Wednesday. According to the newspaper Avrupa, Denizci, who writes for their paper ...

Spain thrashed Costa Rica 7-0 on Wednesday, their biggest ever winning margin at a World Cup, helped by two goals by Ferran Torres and strikes by five other players to ...

Brazil faces a new wave of COVID cases just as the football-crazed nation is gathering en masse to follow the World Cup, with new coronavirus sub-variants and delayed vaccine boosters ...

Two concerts with musicians from abroad are set to take the stage of The Shoe Factory. The Pharos Arts Foundation opens the last month of the year with a cello ...

The interior ministry issued an apology on Wednesday, after letters went out to dead people to register to vote. The issue came to light, after a father published a letter ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey’s air operations against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and it would launch a land operation when ...

Strikes by British postal workers in the run up to Christmas look set to go ahead after Royal Mail’s largest labour union rejected the latest pay offer from the ...

Hundreds of bills were submitted to the parliament in the past year, while the most critical bills dealt with the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund, local government, civil service ...

The House education committee said on Wednesday they believe to have found the compromise for compulsory pre-primary education, even as teachers union Poed held a strike outside the presidential palace ...

Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos said on Wednesday he was pessimistic about achieving a collective agreement on the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), after meeting with trade union Deok. He called on all ...

Deputies on Wednesday were discussing a mechanism aimed at protecting – and preventing – trapped buyers, after Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides submitted a bill to the House legal committee. The aim is ...

As the crypto castle crumbles, some true believers say the answer is to double down on DEX. Decentralized exchanges, that is. The spectacular collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, a ...

Goals from substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano in the last 15 minutes gave Japan a stunning 2-1 upset over four-times champions Germany in their World Cup Group E opener on ...

Russia rained down volleys of missiles across Ukraine on Wednesday, hitting infrastructure in the capital Kyiv and other cities as Moscow pursued its campaign to knock out Ukraine’s power ...

By Karen Lury The 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert is much like a Christmas present from a relative who doesn’t know you well. Well-meaning, beautifully wrapped, but you kind of ...

Cyprus societies at universities overseas can help students feel more at home. PAUL LAMBIS meets the leaders of one that is an example for all It can be a struggle ...

The European Commission has approved a €7.75 million Cypriot scheme to support workers in the agriculture sector who have been affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. According to a statement ...

A three-day conference aiming to explore the conservation, management and governance of protected areas and its application in the Akamas peninsula began on Wednesday. Some of the core themes being ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday described the recent decision by the House of Parliament to suspend the foreclosure bill as “shooting ourselves in the foot”, noting that the only ...

Can you make music from your body? You sure can, and a Barcelona duo traveling to Cyprus this November is here to show eager music fans how. On Saturday in ...