Archive 2022

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was back in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin and had recently exchanged “sweet letters” with him, according to an audio released ...

Omonia announced the sacking of their coach, former Northern Ireland and Celtic midfielder Neil Lennon soon after their fourth defeat to Nea Salamina in the Cyprus championship. Neil Lennon, was ...

More effective measures need to be adopted in an effort to crack down and eradicate human trafficking, said Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights Protection, Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Tuesday on ...

Russia has destroyed almost a third of Ukraine’s power stations in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as Moscow rained more missiles down on infrastructure in ...

Germany’s interior ministry fired the country’s cybersecurity chief on Tuesday and launched an investigation into his conduct after media allegations that he may have come into contact with ...

The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine acknowledged on Tuesday that his troops were under broad pressure and faced hard choices, as the Russian-appointed governor of occupied Kherson province ...

Nothing contributes more to the unification of Cyprus than expanding trade and business ties and providing the infrastructure to support them, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus, Colin ...

Hamas leaders will visit Syria on Wednesday, in a move by the Palestinian Islamist group to rebuild ties after shunning President Bashar al-Assad for years over his violent crackdown on ...

The European Commission proposed a new raft of measures on Tuesday, aimed at pulling down high gas and power prices that are stoking inflation, hampering industrial activity and hiking citizens’ ...

The Health Ministry on Wednesday announced a change in opening hours of Covid-19 vaccination centres across the island from Wednesday, October 19, 2022 in an effort to improve the service offered to ...

Lebanon’s parliament passed another round of amendments to a banking secrecy law after the International Monetary Fund said a previous draft retained key deficiencies. The IMF has laid out ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II’s health is stable, his personal doctor, Joseph Kashios, told the Cyprus News Agency (Cna) immediately after his evening visit to the Archbishopric on Tuesday. “The archbishop ...

The island’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a preliminary national action plan in an effort to establish a mechanism to prevent and combat social exclusion and child poverty. The national ...

One of the four independent presidential contenders announced on Tuesday he has dropped out of talks aimed at putting forward a common candidate. Christodoulos Protopapas said he was withdrawing from ...

Two evenings of thrilling classical music are coming up in Nicosia and Limassol as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra prepares for new concerts. The next performance series celebrate 60 years of diplomatic ...

The Turkish Cypriot community must demand from the EU the right to get on board the prospective EuroAsia Interconnector project “without political preconditions,” head of the Turkish Cypriot Energy Efficiency ...

By Tom Wilson And Angus Berwick As 2022 dawned, Changpeng Zhao was riding high. In less than five years, the founder and chief executive of Binance had turned his young company ...

A United Nations commission found Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, including attacks on civilians ...

Now is not the time to roll out a carbon tax, as the country’s tax base is already reeling from the rising cost of living, the finance minister said ...

Britain summoned China’s Charge d’Affaires on Tuesday to explain an incident in which a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was seen being pulled into the grounds of the Chinese ...

Portugal have been dealt a blow ahead of the World Cup with forward Diogo Jota ruled out of the tournament in Qatar due to a calf injury, Liverpool manager Juergen ...

Manchester United have been charged by the Football Association (FA) for failing to control their players during the goalless draw against Newcastle United at the weekend, the governing body said ...

Electricity authority unions got the green light on Tuesday to further consult with their members on taking measures – typically meaning strike action – should their grievances not be addressed. Their concerns ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said he will probe Washington’s interest in brokering talks between Cyprus and Turkey for a possible maritime border deal following the United States’ role ...