Archive 2022

The labour inspection department had secured the conviction of two construction companies for violation of work health and safety legislation, the ministry of labour announced on Monday. The department brought ...

Cyprus missed out on the first wave of punk in the 70s and 80s. But now, one local band is pioneering this unusual genre of soft rebellion on the island. ...

Ten months after launch, NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world’s first planetary defense system, designed ...

A gunman with a swastika on his t-shirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 20 at a school in central Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said. ...

A new space for contemporary art has opened in Nicosia and is hosting an exhibition by a young local artist. Thousand Julys is housed in a former coffeeshop and aims ...

The United States warned Moscow of “catastrophic consequences” if it uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine after Russia promised protection to Ukrainian regions that Moscow look set to annex following widely ...

As a people we are morbidly fascinated by serial killers. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES takes a closer look at what to watch If there’s one thing Netflix has succeeded in, it ...

Paphos hoteliers association president Thanos Michaelides said on Monday that hotel occupancy rates in the district in September ranged from 70 to 75 per cent. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Michaelides ...

A right-wing alliance led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party looks set to win a clear majority in the next parliament, exit polls said on Sunday after voting ...

Russian men of fighting age should not be allowed to travel abroad, a senior lawmaker was quoted as saying on Monday, amid growing public concern that wider border closures will ...

The Animal Party on Monday decried what it described as an unprovoked attack on two activists who were staging a peaceful protest on Ledra Street on Saturday. The activists set ...

Japan has decided to ban exports of chemical weapons-related goods to Russia in an additional sanction against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, and is “deeply concerned” about the possible ...

Oil prices fell for a second day on Monday on fears of lower fuel demand from an expected global recession sparked by rising worldwide interest rates and as a surging ...

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that he had founded the Wagner Group private military company in 2014, the first public confirmation of a link he has previously denied and ...

No interim order is issued unless a guarantee is provided in favour of the person against whom the order is sought The court within the scope of its powers, upon ...

Tourism is currently playing a key role in helping the island’s economy overcome a difficult period, president of the Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe) Haris Loizides said on Monday. In ...

The fire that broke out on Sunday in a two-story house in Paphos, appears to have been caused by burning coals, Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou said on Monday. The ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis is taking part in the EU council of ministers of agriculture and fisheries meeting in Brussels on Monday. Ministers will discuss the current condition and protection ...

U.S. attempts to violate Iran’s sovereignty over the issue of protests triggered by the death of a woman in police custody will not go unanswered, the foreign ministry ...

A 21-year-old man was remanded for eight days by the Larnaca district court on Monday after he was detained at Larnaca airport on Sunday in connection with possession of close ...

Assistant UN Secretary General Rosemary Di Carlo will visit Cyprus this autumn for a fact-finding mission on the instruction of UNSG Antonio Guterres, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos announced on Monday. ...

Fear can do strange things to a person’s brain. People imagine fear as being a very in-the-moment emotion. It’s either going to send you into a rage to ...

Eleven-year-old Lambros Kallenos, who since the age of three weeks had been fighting a rare and complicated type of lymphangiomatosis, lost his battle with the disease on Sunday at Sheba ...

A fifth Covid vaccine dose could be available by the end of October, while the cabinet just under two weeks ago approved the new bivalent jabs for fourth shots. Medical ...