Archive December 2022

UK retail destinations enjoyed an almost 40% rise in shopper numbers on Monday after the first Christmas in three years with without pandemic restrictions, data compiled by Springboard showed on Tuesday. ...

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an arch loyalist of Vladimir Putin given a new job this week, predicted war between Germany and France next year and a civil war in ...

Unions will be consulted before the material to be taught in sex education classes is decided on, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Tuesday. His statements were made in a ...

Tuesday was the last day for people to register on voter rolls for the 2023 presidential elections, although by midday only a fraction of those eligible had done so. Speaking on ...

Lionel Messi will return to Paris St Germain at the beginning of January, the Ligue 1 club’s manager Christophe Galtier said on Tuesday. The Argentine forward, seven-time Ballon D’Or ...

The death toll from Christmas day rains in southern Philippines has risen to 13, authorities said on Tuesday, with the search still on for 23 people as floods started to recede. Most ...

One of Cyprus’ best known actresses has worked across mediums, with her latest project putting the spotlight on the women of the island finds PAUL LAMBIS Nedie Antoniades is a ...

A Minsk court sentenced in absentia former Olympic swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia and political activist Alexander Opeykin to 12 years in prison for calling for sanctions and actions aimed at harming the ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) on Tuesday said Cyprus’ economy growth rate in 2022 amounted to 6 per cent, adding that the current unemployment rate is now at the same level ...

Dikomo ‘mayor’ Yüksel Çelebi was shot by a ‘municipality’ employee and had to be taken to hospital, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Tuesday. The armed attack followed a warning Ç...

Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by stringent COVID-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening next month, even ...

The “indifference” shown by the public about taking part in elections for the new Archbishop are a matter for concern, the new prelate said on Tuesday although he added that ...

CRAIG GUNN on why genetics, personality and coping mechanisms can make a difference After a good night out you may not be surprised when you wake up feeling rough the ...

Protesting Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo erected new barricades on Tuesday, hours after Serbia said it had put its army on the highest combat ...

Two more private hospitals are set to start operating within the national health scheme Gesy in 2023, director of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Tuesday. Speaking to ...

The Christmas markets are in full swing and gleaming ice sculptures greet visitors to Gorky Park, but some Muscovites admit they are struggling to feel festive ahead of traditional New ...

New technical schools will be built in 2023, general secretary of the union of technical school teachers’ (Oeltek) Lenos Loizou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said ...

The average rainfall from the beginning of December to 8am on Tuesday amounted to just 32 per cent of the normal precipitation for the month, the met service said in a ...

Over recent months, sets of sturdy, brightly-branded battery swapping stations have cropped up around Kenya’s capital Nairobi, allowing electric motorcyclists to exchange their low battery for a fully-charged one. ...

The four-year-old girl who was transferred to Israel with Strep A infection remains in critical but stable condition, health ministry spokesperson Constantinos Athanasiou told Alpha News on Tuesday. The girl ...

Among the first new art showcases of the New Year is a photography exhibition at the 6×6 Centre for Photography in Limassol. The Mirror of Conflict exhibition will open on January 20 ...

Oil prices rose to three-week highs on Tuesday as China’s latest easing of COVID-19 restrictions spurred fuel demand hopes, while concerns that winter storms across the United States are ...

Traditional centralized marketplaces need to adequately address the need for direct and secure interactions between participants across disparate geographies. A website is a wholly automated cryptocurrency trading platform offering the ...

Cyprus and India will sign bilateral memoranda of understanding and agreements in the fields of military cooperation, energy, and immigration, as part of a visit by the Indian Foreign Minister ...