Archive 2022

Temperatures are expected to hit 42C by mid-week, the meteorology department said on Monday. With the thermometer hitting 40C, a yellow weather warning for high temperatures is in force until 6...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela called for a meeting on Monday to take stock of the latest data, as well as Cyprus’ level of preparedness in dealing with monkeypox. The World ...

Firefighters deployed air tankers, bulldozers and hand crews to battle a fast-moving wildfire just west of Yosemite National Park that suddenly and unpredictably grew into one of the largest fires ...

Myanmar’s military junta on Monday said it had executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out “terror acts” in the Southeast Asian nation’s first executions in ...

Two men, aged 19 and 21, were arrested and taken into custody to facilitate inquiries into an attack on a 23-year-old pedestrian in Nicosia on Sunday night. The 23-year-old reported to the ...

Herbert Diess took over at Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) four years ago when the German automaker was in crisis, under pressure to make dramatic changes in strategy and culture, ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is working to get some cryptolending companies properly registered if they operate more as investment firms, the head of the Wall Street regulator ...

A former product manager at Coinbase Global and two others have been charged with wire fraud in the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency, US prosecutors in Manhattan said on ...

Gaps between private and public workers as well as between generations grow ever wider By Les Manison Labour, particularly private sector employees, and the young generation have suffered badly under ...

Greek firefighters battled wildfires on the island of Lesbos for a second day on Sunday as well as new fires in the western Peloponnese and in northern Greece, evacuating nearby ...

By Louisa Borg Haviara When a complex phenomenon is given a name, it becomes more noticeable in our everyday observations and understanding. As a result we seem to remember such ...

Sixteen people are dead after a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized off the coast of The Bahamas, authorities said on Sunday, amid a continuing wave of sea migration toward the ...

Ukraine forged ahead on Monday with efforts to restart grain exports from its Black Sea ports under a deal aimed at easing global food shortages but said a weekend missile ...

Fueled by extreme heat and tinder dry forests and underbrush, a wildfire just west of Yosemite National Park spread overnight, quickly turning into one of the largest fires of the ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the French Grand Prix on Sunday and took a huge stride towards his second Formula One title after Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc made a ...

The resumption of the Cyprus talks will be impossible if Turkey does not cease its provocative actions, director of the President’s press office, Andreas Iosif said on Sunday. Speaking ...

COULD it have been a brave disregard for their personal safety that made the two so-called independent candidates turn down the proposal of the police command to provide them with ...

Domestic violence involving children increased during the pandemic By Andreas Kapardis and Markella Bitsiouni According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states must recognise that the “child, ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered reassurances over Russian grain supplies to Egypt during a visit to Cairo on Sunday, amid uncertainty over a deal to resume Ukrainian exports ...

Paphos mayor Phaedonas Phaedonos said the local authority is going ahead with facelift plans for Ayios Kendeas square to create a point of attraction in the city centre. Paphos is ...

Ukraine pressed ahead with efforts to restart grain exports from Odesa and other Black Sea ports after a missile attack that cast doubt over whether Russia would honour a deal ...

The Cyprus problem, but also energy, security and the humanitarian issue of the island’s missing persons and problems faced by the diaspora, will be among the topics of discussion ...

President Joe Biden, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, is improving in health and none of his 17 identified close contacts have so far tested positive for the coronavirus, White ...

Scorching temperatures will continue through Monday, according to a new yellow warning from the met office. It noted that on Sunday night the minimum temperature is expected to fall to ...