Archive 2022

The drafting of the bill for the restructuring of the anti-doping authority has been completed and is being put up for public discussion, according to Law Commissioner Louisa Zannetou. Zannetou ...

Turkish Cypriot trade unionists were demonstrating on Wednesday morning over the law pushed by the ‘government’ to consolidate ‘municipalities’ According Kibris Postasi, ‘municipality’ staffers were mobilising to protest “the (special) ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela has travelled to Helsinki for discussions on the pandemic, bilateral cooperation and issues related to e-health. An announcement said the visit was within the framework of ...

A 16-year-old was found driving in Paphos on Tuesday according to police. He was stopped during a regular traffic check. It was found that he was driving the car of ...

Police arrested an 18-year-old man early on Wednesday for speeding along the Nicosia-Limassol highway at 182 km/hr instead of 100km/hr, which is the limit. The 18-year-old was taken to ...

Police arrested a 36-year-old man on Tuesday in the context of investigating a series of cat thefts, according to an announcement. The 36-year-old was arrested on the spot after police ...

Six months ago, Vladimir Putin ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine on a “special military operation” – a mass invasion on a scale unseen in Europe since World ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi On August 24, 2022 Ukrainians celebrate Independence Day, marking the 31st anniversary of the country’s declaration of independence. It was our biggest national holiday, celebrated by millions of ...

Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production and the yields ...

Ukrainians mark 31 years since they broke free from the Russia-dominated Soviet Union on Wednesday in what is certain to be a day of defiance against the Kremlin’s six-month-old war ...

External geopolitical uncertainty and soaring inflation continue to trouble the Cypriot economy, causing a decline across a number of leading economic activity variables for the second month in a row, ...

AstraZeneca may not stay in the vaccine business in the long run and is looking to buy small and mid-sized companies specialising in oncology and cardiovascular treatments, Chief Executive Pascal ...

The DeFi dream is shaken. And stirred. The grand crypto project has declined in 2022: total user funds deposited in decentralized finance has shrunk to about $61 billion from over $170 billion at ...

Cypriot company Point Nine on Tuesday announced that it has been selected as one of the 50 best companies to watch in 2022 by The Silicon Review, one of the world’s ...

Climate sceptics have now moved away from climate denial to climate delay By Georgia Savvidou Cypriots are expected to experience the effects of climate change sooner and to a higher ...

When Noble Energy made its first discovery in the Aphrodite field in 2011 there was rejoicing and expectations, encouraged by politicians, that Cyprus would be selling natural gas a few years ...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) plans to start making the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its release out of China, in a move that will narrow the gap from ...

A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least ...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog will visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine within days if talks to gain access succeed, it said in a statement on Tuesday. ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides reaffirmed Cyprus’ principled stance and the unwavering commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in his address to the Second Summit of Crimea Platform. “Ι ...

Turkey said on Tuesday that Palestinian authorities, including different political factions, welcome the normalisation of ties between Turkey and Israel and that they want the dialogue to continue. Last week, ...

The United States will announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion as early as Wednesday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, in what would be ...

Turkey’s leading TUSIAD business association has received a letter from U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo warning of possible sanctions risks if companies establish relations with sanctioned Russian ...

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Cyprus have risen steadily in the past three decades from 1990 to 2020 compared to the rest of the European Union, which recorded a decline in most ...