Archive May 2022

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said his squad was not deep enough to challenge for multiple trophies earlier in his reign as they look to end a long FA Cup drought ...

An open letter outlining a range of measures for the government to implement, sent on Wednesday by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve), has sparked a fierce reaction ...

Shanghai was tightening its COVID-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin to ease restrictions, while ...

Police in New Delhi arrested two people suspected of flouting fire safety regulations on Saturday after at least 27 people died in a blaze at a building housing a manufacturing unit ...

Deputy Minister for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos announced on Friday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IDEA Innovation Centre president Charis Pouangare. The MoU ...

Research released earlier this month has shown that the behaviour of consumers and markets in the technology sector is being driven by a number of factors, with several trends being ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering financial support for Ukraine’s transport and logistics companies to help them maintain their exports, a senior bank official said ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Friday unveiled a proposed overhaul in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties he said aimed to weed out distortions, better serve refugees and make the ...

For months now, the labour minister, Zeta Emilianidou has been having meetings with union bosses and representatives of employers’ organisations about the introduction of a national minimum wage, which was ...

Ukrainian forces destroyed parts of a Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video from Ukraine‘s military showed on Friday, as the ...

Over six thousand imitation goods were identified and seized by the police during island-wide inspections between May 9 and 13. The inspections were part of a European campaign to control the illegal ...

Police have arrested a 56-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman after 2.5 kilograms of cocaine were discovered in a briefcase that was hidden inside a cardboard box, Cyprus News Agency (CNA) ...

Foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations backed giving more aid and weapons to Ukraine as they met on Friday in what Germany called a “powerful sign of ...

The United States is working to clarify Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s comments about Finland and Sweden but Ankara’s standing in the Nato alliance had not changed because of ...

A treasury report has revealed that presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis did not receive two salaries as suggested by rival candidate Achilleas Demetriades. Citing sources, Demetriades had questioned whether Mavroyiannis had ...

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a pro-Western moderniser who had aligned the Gulf Arab state closer to the United States and its allies, died on ...

Israeli police officers charged at Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday, before thousands led her casket through Jerusalem’s Old City in ...

The 21st International Pharos Chamber Music Festival will open on May 24 at the Pharos Arts Foundation’s recital venue The Shoe Factory with a cello and piano recital by the ...

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine when he spoke by telephone to his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu on Friday for the first time ...

Croatia aims to become the 20th member of the euro zone in 2023 after its parliament on Friday adopted legislation on introducing the shared currency from Jan. 1, the state news agency ...

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party blocked the restoration of a power-sharing administration in the British-run province on Friday when newly elected members for the Assembly met in the Stormont ...

Caesarean sections in Cyprus reached 61 per cent of total births in 2020, while the acceptable limit set by the World Health Organisation is up to 15 per cent, the head of the ...

A cruise ship carrying around 1,000 passengers from Israel docked at Larnaca port on Friday after a two-year hiatus of the service due to the Covid-19 restrictions. The Crown Iris cruise ...

The village of Lefkara was named among the ‘Best Tourism Villages’ by the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) during a ceremony that took place on Friday in the presence of the ...