Archive February 2022

Airbus (AIR.PA) hopes to reach an amicable solution in a row with Qatar Airways over damage to the surface of A350 passenger jets, Chief Executive Guillaume Faury said on ...

Pandemic restrictions in 2020 reduced the European Union’s oil and petroleum consumption in energy use to its lowest in 30 years, the bloc’s statistics office said on Friday. Eurostat said ...

Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, and Ambassador of Palestine to Cyprus Abdallah Attari, discussed on Friday bilateral relations between Cyprus and Palestine, developments in the Middle East and the Cyprus problem. ...

Turkish consumer confidence dropped 2.8 per cent to 71.2 points in February, official data showed on Friday, but remained higher than a record low level it touched in December due to a ...

Works on the construction of a roundabout at the junction of Christakis Kranou and Daedalides in Yermasoyia will begin on Monday and will last until August 13, the department of public ...

Cypriots and permanent residents of Cyprus with cancer experience are being urged to participate in an international survey on the socioeconomic impact of cancer. In a press release, the Cyprus ...

A major strike paralysed most of Paris’s metro network and city train grid on Friday, disrupting the daily commutes of millions of people, as workers demand greater pay hikes ...

Dramatisations and documentaries about scammers are taking over our streaming services. Laura Harding appraises the offerings. What is it about scammers that we find so hard to resist? There is ...

On the occasion of Battery Day, the environment department issued a call for the public to recycle their batteries, as they can pose a great risk to the environment “despite ...

A container ship carrying a number of Volkswagen Group vehicles from Germany to the United States caught fire near the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands on Wednesday evening, a ...

A ransomware attack took place every 11 seconds in 2021, as opposed to every 39 seconds in 2019, the National Computer Security Incident Response Team for Cyprus (CSIRT-CY) said on Friday. CSIRT-CY said that ...

By Laura Glitsos The 2020s is the age of the reboot. Without a doubt, one of the most anticipated has been the revival of the iconic TV show Sex and ...

The leaders of the nine communities near Vasiliko will stage a demonstration next Saturday to protest the imminent relocation of two asphalt plants to the area. During the protest on ...

Come March and classical music lovers will have plenty of opportunities to enjoy some live performances in Paphos, starting from the very first week. On March 4, young soprano Ekaterina Savva ...

Paphos domestic violence police unit on Friday said it has investigated 259 complaints with “seriousness and responsibility” during its first year of operations. According to the assistant chief of Paphos police ...

Two more arrests have taken place in Istanbul in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali, the Cyprus News Agency said on Friday, citing Turkish media. This ...

By Nick Theodoulou and Gina Agapiou Knives are out in the Gesy row after the finance ministry drew its scalpel and trimmed €150m from the Health Insurance Organisation’s (HIO) ...

The Cyprus problem and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) proposed by the Greek Cypriot side were among the matters discussed during a meeting President Nicos Anastasiades had with French President Emmanuel ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Friday said the planned Larnaca marina and port development will not only benefit the town but the entire Cypriot economy, adding that works are proceeding ...

The government on Friday welcomed the passing of a law establishing an anti-corruption authority, saying the effort to combat the phenomenon on all levels “must and will continue”. The law ...

Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels reported increased shelling in eastern Ukraine for a second straight day on Friday, an escalation that Washington and other Western allies say could form ...

Ferrari are aiming for a return to competitiveness in 2022, with their F1-75 challenger unveiled on Thursday carrying the weight of history and expectation for the sport’s oldest and ...

Speaker of the UK House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle, paid tribute to the men and women serving in British Forces Cyprus (BFC) during his visit to the Bases earlier ...

A total of 36 rapid testing sites for coronavirus will operate on Friday for eligible groups, according to the health ministry. Eligible for a free rapid test are people fully vaccinated ...