Archive May 2022

Argentina confirmed the first case of monkeypox in Latin America on Friday and reported another suspected case of the disease, the Ministry of Health said in a press statement. Spain, ...

President Nikos Anastasiades told France24 in an interview aired on Thursday that Russian and Turkish revisionism were comparable, that he remains firm on bizonal bicommunal federation, and that seizing Russian ...

A musical summer evening at Kolossi Castle is being put on by NGO KYFA (Kentron Ypostirixis Foreon Aids) to support families, and especially women with children, who have been affected ...

The role of national parliaments in preventing and fighting corruption was discussed on Friday during an international conference organised in Nicosia by the House of Representatives with the support of ...

Opposition Akel’s central committee on Friday announced that it has decided to go ahead and support independent candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis for the 2023 presidential elections. “Akel’s central committee met ...

Bank of Cyprus (BoC) has taken silver in the ‘Best Compliance Team’ category of the 2022 ICA Compliance Awards. The inaugural Awards, held as a hybrid event on May 19, recognise the ...

By Andrea Charalambous An incentive plan for the purchase of protective equipment for motorcyclists was approved by the council of ministers on Friday. The subsidy amount will be €500 or the ...

Italy coach Roberto Mancini insisted his decision to keep faith with the same players who won the European Championships last July for the Azzurri’s disastrous World Cup qualification campaign ...

Cyprus’ Central Bank (CBC) governor, Constantinos Herodotou on Friday projected that an expected rise in interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB) would be manageable. Herodotou’s comments came ...

Labour inspectors will in June focus on photographers, flower shops and weddings and christening services as part of an ongoing campaign to combat undeclared work and ensure compliance with labour ...

By Andrea Charalambous As part of the project ‘Keep our Sand and Sea Plastic Free’ an event will take place on Wednesday, June 1 at Malama Beach Holiday Village, Protaras. The ...

Firefighting exercise Hephestus 2022, part of Forest Protection week, took place on Friday and aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the state’s entire forest firefighting system. The exercise included a ...

Russia is on the cusp of a unique kind of debt crisis which investors say would be a first time a major emerging market economy is pushed into a bond ...

If you’ve read your Kipling, you’ll know of the great, green, greasy Limpopo river, all set about with fever trees. But there’s a great deal more to ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides will travel to the United States on Sunday for a working visit, marking a milestone in Cyprus-US relations as he will be the first Cypriot defence ...

Citing the improved epidemiological situation, cabinet on Friday abolished the action plan at airports and ports, effectively scrapping coronavirus-related entry requirements. The new regime comes into effect on June 1. In ...

By Andrea Charalambous Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides and his deputy Savvas Angelidis are travelling to Luxembourg next week to visit the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). During their ...

Russia’s separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine claimed full control of the important battlefield town of Lyman on Friday, and Ukraine appeared to concede it, as Moscow presses its biggest ...

Cabinet on Friday approved a €103m package to help households ride out a surge in the cost of living fueled by sharp increases in energy prices as a result of ...

A fire which broke out earlier in the afternoon at Panagra (Geçitköy) is now largely under control, while crews continued to work intensively on extinguishing the blaze, authorities ...

The public works department has launched an open tender for construction of a new building for the pancyprian blood centre at Yeri, Nicosia, the transport ministry said on Friday. The ...

An exciting opportunity for women who write short monologues or plays has arisen with the Women’s Empowerment Theatre seeking three to five-minute-long scripts written by females for a series ...

Face masks will no longer be required indoors next month with the exception of high-risk areas such as hospitals, the health ministry announced on Friday. The relaxation will come into ...

The dollar was set for its biggest weekly drop in nearly four months as traders lowered Federal Reserve rate hike expectations amid signs the US central bank might slow or ...