Archive 2022

Authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday to control huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Greece and France, with hundreds of deaths blamed on soaring temperatures that scientists say are ...

Open letter to the finance minister By Achilleas Demetriades As part of the ongoing dialogue to tackle soaring prices, I would like to contribute the following ideas. Inflation is the ...

By Steve Keating An excited record crowd poured into rainy St Andrews on Sunday for the climax of the 150th British Open that appeared to be heading towards a matchplay-style ...

A motorcyclist who fell 10m into a ravine in the Troodos mountains on Sunday lunchtime was rescued by police and fire officers. According to the police, the incident happened at ...

The atmosphere around the waste centre in Pentacomo had cleared on Sunday, community leader of nearby Kalavasos Lefteris Foka said after a large fire in the area on Friday. “Today ...

Once the hotel of kings, the Berengaria now has a new lease of life Berengaria, the imposing abandoned mountain hotel with a haunted reputation will be restored to its former ...

A yellow weather warning for “extremely high temperatures” on Sunday night has been issued by the Met Office. The warning concerns the period from 9pm on Sunday to 6am on ...

By Demetrios H Hadjihambis Reading the article of Christos Panayiotides ‘Entry of Cyprus into Nato – Why not?’ published recently, I thought it would be a good idea to continue the ...

The Indian government’s COVID-19 vaccinations hit 2 billion on Sunday, with booster doses underway for all adults, as daily infections hit four-month high, official data showed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus have reached 75 per cent of levels seen in 2019, deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios said on Sunday, describing the figure as “not bad”. Speaking after a ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Sunday launched a complaint that a priest in a Paphos village refused to name a teenager killed in 1973 during a memorial service. “Disgrace and shame. ...

By Guy Faulconbridge The Ukraine war shows that the West’s dominance is coming to an end as China rises to superpower status in partnership with Russia at one of ...

The 7th International Tattoo Convention will be held in Limassol this week. ELENI PHILIPPOU gets an inkling of what will happen Time to get inked? The International Tattoo Convention taking ...

By Christos P Panayiotides The onus of proof of the presidential candidates that they mean business when they claim that they are determined to reunite Cyprus and to combat corruption ...

If other measures are needed against the spread of Covid they will be taken, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Sunday. Our priority is that schools stay open and students ...

A week long police campaign will begin on Monday to check buses and trucks on the roads. Taking place as part of the European campaign Roadpol, members of the police ...

By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after Moscow said its forces would step ...

The problems faced by health centres in the mountains are on the way to being solved, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Saturday visiting the Troodos hospital in Kyperounta. Speaking ...

Chinese technology company Huawei cemented its position as the country’s second-largest cloud service provider in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report released this month by technology analysts ...

A two-pillar solution to stop the ever-increasing rents There has been a change of pace in the real estate sector in Limassol. The increased demand from the local market for ...

A Ukrainian cargo plane carrying munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh crashed in northern Greece late on Saturday, killing all eight crew members on board, Greek and Serbian authorities said on ...

Customers of crypto lender Celsius face a long and anxious wait to know how, when and even if they will get their money back after the company filed for bankruptcy, ...

Rishi Sunak should replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister By Alper Ali Riza It is often wrongly assumed that the political left is the natural home of liberated women, ...

Traditional debt crisis signs of crashing currencies, 1,000 basis point bond spreads and burned FX reserves point to a record number of developing nations now in trouble. Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Russia, ...