Archive December 2022

Two new art exhibitions are opening in mid-December offering a glimpse of Parisian flair and plenty of local talent. Lumiere Contemporary Art Gallery in Limassol organises a black and white ...

Customs officers arrested a 59-year-old man at Paphos aircport who tried to travel to London with undeclared cigarettes and tobacco. After his luggage was searched, 8.85g of tobacco was found ...

Russia is considering three options, including banning oil sales to some countries and setting maximum discounts at which it would sell its crude, to counter the price cap imposed by ...

A 35-year-old man was remanded for six days on Wednesday, after a violent car crash that caused the death of the 62-year-old driver he collided with. Limassol traffic police deputy ...

China on Wednesday announced the most sweeping changes to its resolute anti-COVID regime since the pandemic began three years ago, loosening rules that curbed the spread of the virus but ...

Two people were beaten and robbed in Paphos on Tuesday night, after eight people broke into their home and threatened them with guns, knives and bats. Police are now searching ...

The European Union agreed on Tuesday on a new law to prevent companies from selling into the EU market coffee, beef, soy and other commodities linked to deforestation around the ...

Donald Trump’s real estate company was convicted on Tuesday of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U....

Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the U.S. Senate in a hard-fought Georgia runoff on Tuesday, strengthening his party’s razor-thin majority as he fought off a challenge by ...

The Council for Registration of Real Estate Agents on Tuesday said that an important measure will soon be implemented that will have a bearing on the Cypriot property market and ...

A third Russian airfield was set ablaze by a drone strike a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometres into Russia with attacks on ...

The Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry Natasa Pilides on Tuesday departed for Cairo, where she will preside over the eighth ministerial meeting of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF), ...

“I’m nearly bankrupt,” says Jad Fawaz, a crypto trader in Abu Dhabi. “I’m laughing because there’s no point in exerting more depression and more frustration about it.” ...

Euro zone inflation may have peaked but will subside so slowly that it could be years before it gets back to the European Central Bank’s 2 per cent target, keeping ...

US weapons maker Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) and Israeli contractor Rafael have teamed up to create a high-energy laser weapon system, based on a technology already under development in Israel ...

Environmental groups on Tuesday called for more to be done to protect stray animals in Cyprus, with the Greens calling for food, and the Animal Party saying cat sterilisations need ...

It is very convenient for everyone to blame bad policing for the violence and vandalism by football hooligans, because then they can go on pretending that they have no responsibility ...

Goncalo Ramos scored a stunning hat-trick as a slick Portugal thrashed Switzerland 6-1 on Tuesday to storm into the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time since 2006. Portugal ...

It is unacceptable that state broadcaster CyBC is not streaming parliament’s live session and is instead broadcasting the World Cup, House President Annita Demetriou said on Tuesday. To this ...

Achraf Hakimi calmly converted a penalty to send Morocco through to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time with a 3-0 shootout win over former champions Spain after a ...

Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha was punched in the face by a male bystander as he led a crowd of his party’s supporters to central Tirana on Tuesday for ...

Junior opposition party Dipa on Tuesday confirmed they would be voting for the 2023 state budget, making parliament’s passage of the bill all but a foregone conclusion. Speaking on the ...

Air connectivity and tourism make up 20 per cent of Cyprus’ GDP, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday, as he criticised Turkey’s increasing violations into Cypriot airspace. His speech, ...

A man was arrested on suspicion of common assault after an egg was believed to have been thrown in the direction of Britain’s King Charles during a walkabout on ...