Archive 2022

At the end of the summer we like to write a lighter column based on conversations that caught our attention during our daily swimming in the Pernera-Protaras area. One group ...

A performance-installation conceptualised, written and choreographed by Annie Khoury will take place at Goethe-Institut on Thursday and Friday evenings. Performed by Khoury herself and Panagiotis Tofi, Don’t Forget to ...

Sweden‘s right bloc inched into the narrowest of leads with around 90% of votes counted after Sunday’s general election, with results pointing to a new government after eight years ...

Police arrested a 50-year-old man on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigations into a stockpile of weapons and explosives found in Nicosia in May. The stash, located on May 19 ...

Ukraine accused the Russian military of attacking civilian infrastructure in response to a rapid weekend offensive by Ukrainian troops that forced Russia to abandon its main bastion in the Kharkiv ...

European Central Bank policymakers see a rising risk that they will have to raise their key interest rate to 2 per cent or more to curb record-high inflation in the euro ...

Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz completed his rapid rise to the top of the tennis world on Sunday, claiming his first Grand Slam title and taking the number one ranking with ...

Visa Inc (V.N), the world’s largest payments processor, said on Saturday it will implement a new merchant category code for US gun retailers, which will identify transactions at ...

The Turkish central bank’s foreign currency reserves are getting stronger as friendly countries are providing support, President Tayyip Erdogan said, broadcaster Haberturk reported on Friday. The central bank’s ...

The United Arab Emirates’ tourism revenues were 19 billion dirhams ($5.17 billion) in the first half of 2022, its vice president said on Sunday in a tweet. Numbers of hotel guests rose 42 per ...

Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves of unprecedented intensity and duration, droughts, dust storms and torrential rains, are expected to hit the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region (EMME) by ...

I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written ...

U.S. President Joe Biden invoked the memory of America’s united response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda and vowed to “never give up” in the face of ...

It is time for Cyprus to move from words to action As we approach winter the global energy crisis is getting worse and worse. It has shifted from a situation ...

After many months of difficult negotiations, the EU has recognised the instrumentalisation or ‘weaponisation’ of migration by Turkey through the Green Line, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The ministry ...

‘Ethnic Russian minorities in Baltic states treated as “second-class people” says Moscow’ As a Lithuanian I have many things to say about what is being said there. This article is ...

he death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 11, most of them Tunisians, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, TAP state news ...

France’s transport minister said on Sunday he would sign an agreement with Romania to help increase Ukrainian grain exports to developing countries including to the Mediterranean. Ukraine’s grain ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dashed Ferrari’s home hopes and won the Italian Grand Prix behind the safety car on Sunday to move potentially a race away from his ...

The Sovereign Base Areas on Sunday held a proclamation ceremony for His Majesty King Charles III. The event featured a parade of military and civilian personnel from across the Bases. ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...

Shoving, pushing and often drunk, crowds fight for buses The situation with early-morning buses in Ayia Napa has become increasingly lawless and unbearable – though the end of summer will presumably ...

Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...

Xi Jinping will leave China this week for the first time in more than two years for a trip to Central Asia where he will meet Vladimir Putin just a ...