Archive May 2022

Australia will respond calmly to the Solomon Islands after it signed a security pact with China, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, dismissing a furious response by the leader of the ...

The Russian rouble jumped on Wednesday to around a two-year high against both the dollar and the euro, retaining the support of hefty capital controls as the European Union proposed ...

Sweden has received assurances from the United States that it would receive support during the period a potential application to join NATO is processed by the 30 nations in the alliance, ...

Civilians will need to be dug from bunkers under a steel works that is the last holdout of resistance in Ukraine’s Mariupol, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday, after ...

War may be raging on their doorstep but Central Europe’s economies are outpacing their euro zone peers as consumer spending booms. A reversal could come as soon as this ...

The Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) on Wednesday released the preliminary budget results for the period January-March 2022, with the report showing a general government surplus of €239.3 million. The surplus corresponds to 1 ...

President Anastasiades earlier this week said that Turkey’s ban on Cyprus-flagged vessels is an ongoing source of frustration for the local shipping industry, labelling the embargo a ‘thorn in ...

It would take 500 to 600 years to bring Cyprus’ roughly one million stray cat population under control within the current sterilisation programme, lawmakers heard on Wednesday. Only about 1,500-2,000 cats are ...

JUST over a year ago, the government was celebrating because the European Commission finally registered halloumi as a protected designation of origin (PDO). The registration had waited for years because ...

Real Madrid fought back from the brink of elimination to beat Manchester City 3-1 after extra time and 6-5 on aggregate in an enthralling and dramatic Champions League semi-final on ...

Actress Amber Heard choked back tears on Wednesday as she told a Virginia jury that her ex-husband Johnny Depp slapped her when she laughed at the writing on one of ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark overnight interest rate by half a percentage point, the biggest jump in 22 years, and said it would begin trimming its bond holdings ...

Hefty jail sentences of seven and nine years were handed down to a 31-year-old and 32-year-old respectively for their key role in a meth lab and a subsequent attack on ...

The European Union proposed its toughest sanctions yet against Russia on Wednesday, including a phased oil embargo, as Kyiv said Moscow was intensifying an offensive in eastern Ukraine and close ...

Ukraine’s prosecutor general accused Russia on Tuesday of using rape as a tactic of war and described Russian President Vladimir Putin as “the main war criminal of the 21st ...

Cyprus still suffers from the remnants of English colonial rule and plans to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee must be cancelled, former Diko vice president and presidential candidate Giorgos ...

The blue shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored two momentous goals to knock England out of the 1986 World Cup, including the so-called ‘Hand of God’ goal, has sold ...

The House education committee on Wednesday began discussions on school opening hours and future plans for all-day schools. Lawmakers met to review timetables and curriculums in primary, secondary and technical ...

Arodafnousa palliative care centre will begin the operation of a second ward and a pain management clinic, which will offer services to outpatients, the Cyprus Cancer Association announced on Wednesday, ...

Cyprus’ drive to reduce annual road fatalities to zero will see a near total overhaul of the rules and regulations which are currently enforced, according to statements made on Wednesday ...

Les Insoumuses, meaning the Defiant Muses, is a feminist video collective from the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir. The women’s collective consisted of Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, and Ioana ...

The Russian Orthodox Church scolded Pope Francis on Wednesday for using the wrong tone after he urged Patriarch Kirill not to become the Kremlin’s “altar boy”, cautioning the Vatican ...

Investigators have found new evidence potentially incriminating the key suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 15 years ago, said Hans Christian Wolters, the German prosecutor who has been ...

Amid a storm of protests, CyBC president Michalis Michail on Wednesday attributed a decision to scrap the participation of an Edek MP on a current affairs show to an ‘internal ...