Archive 2022

Dherynia municipality has been awarded as the Green Town of Cyprus for the initiatives it has taken for the environment, it announced on Sunday. The award was given by the ...

By Gabriela Baczynska The European Union executive recommended on Sunday suspending some 7.5 billion euros in funding for Hungary over corruption, the first such case in the 27-nation bloc under a ...

Twelve computer towers were among evidence taken by police on Saturday night during an investigation into a property in Paphos suspected as operating as an illegal gambling operation. After securing ...

Camilla, wife of the Britain’s new King Charles and now queen consort, said the smile of the late Queen Elizabeth was “unforgettable” in a message of tribute to the ...

Cypriot wine exports are up over 60 per cent, Commerce Minister Natasa Pilides said on Saturday night opening the annual Wine Festival in Limassol. “The ministry of commerce, realising the dynamics ...

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping ...

The government has set the bar high for the revitalisation of rural areas, to attract both residents and businesses to these areas, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Saturday night. “...

Since its official launch, Cypress Park, the island’s pioneering development that is scheduled to revolutionise retirement living in Cyprus, has drawn continued investment interest from individuals over 60 who want ...

Typhoon Nanmadol bore down on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu on Sunday with the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warning of gales and high waves “like never experienced before”. ...

By Pavel Polityuk Russia has widened its strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in the past week following setbacks on the battlefield and is likely to expand its target range further, ...

One more person, aged 33, has been charged for offences related to the violence that broke out at a football match last week at the Aek arena, police said on Sunday. ...

Three people have been arrested for the illegal movement of migrants after the arrivals of 19 in the Famagusta area on Saturday afternoon, police announced on Sunday. During police questioning, the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, delivered her annual State of the Union address before the European Parliament, on September 14. This is the occasion ...

The wearable band market has bounced back into growth with shipments rising 2 per cent during the second quarter of 2022, following a contraction of 3.7 per cent during the previous quarter, according ...

US government agencies must double down on digital asset sector enforcement and identify gaps in cryptocurrency regulation, the Biden administration said on Friday, citing their potential for misuse and harm ...

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) will invest over 7 trillion won ($5.02 billion) by 2030 as part of sweeping environmental initiatives aimed at making the company carbon neutral by 2050, the world’s largest chip and ...

Among the detached houses in the Ayios Mamas refugee estate in Lakatamia stand five modern concrete buildings that once housed Greek Cypriot refugee families, but are now abandoned, and in ...

It took 17 years for the state authorities to establish that a 26-year-old National Guard conscript, Thanasis Nicolaou, found dead on the dry riverbed under Alassa bridge, had been strangled. When ...

THE DEVOUT churchgoers and Orthodox fanatics, who have been living on myths spread by monks (also known as prophesies of the holy fathers) about the ‘blond race’ (Russians) liberating Constantinople ...

There is no space for losers at the head of the Conservative party A week is a long time in politics but it was an eternity last week in the ...

Son Heung-min ended his scoring drought in stunning fashion with a sublime hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur crushed Leicester City 6-2 to move joint top of the Premier League on Saturday. ...

Ukrainian officials said on Friday they had found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, buried in territory recaptured from Russian forces, in what President Volodymyr ...

King Charles and his son William shook hands and greeted well-wishers who had queued for hours in central London on Saturday to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth, asking ...

Three individuals have been charged for offences related to violent incidents that took place on Monday September 11 near Aek’s arena stadium in Larnaca following a match with Nea Salamina. ...