Archive 2022

Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate ...

Earlier this month, the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) showcased a number of initiatives in audiovisual tourism at the Conecta Fiction & Entertainment conference which took place in Spain last week ...

The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling ...

Shipping Deputy Minister Vassilios Demetriades on Monday flew to Lisbon to attend the UN Ocean Conference taking place in the city, co-hosted by the Kenya and Portugal governments. A press ...

Even for a veteran meme stock trader like Mike Minutelli, Revlon Inc (REV.N) is a wild bet. The 30-year-old plumber from Oxford, North Carolina, scored a 350 per cent profit ...

AstraZeneca (AZN.L) said on Monday two of its existing therapies were recommended for treating patients with some forms of high-risk breast cancers in the European Union, in a boost ...

The Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) conducts its business with profligacy and has lax bookkeeping, as a result of which it wastes a great deal of taxpayer money, a new report ...

We are just two weeks away from the 11th anniversary of the one of the biggest environmental and human tragedies to hit Cyprus since 1974 and the 2005 Helios air crash, and ...

British hope Emma Raducanu and former champion Andy Murray gave the local fans reason to cheer on the opening day of Wimbledon after they won their first round matches on ...

The face mask mandate may be reintroduced in pharmacies following the health advisors’ recommendation on Monday, amid an uptick in Covid cases. At the request of Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela, ...

The general secretary of Turkish Cypriot movement Sol Hareket was banned from entering Turkey during his recent trip there, it emerged on Monday. Abdullah Korkmazhan was denied entry upon his ...

Police on Monday arrested a 23-year-old man, who was wanted on suspicion of assisting illegal entry into the Republic last year. An arrest warrant was pending against the suspect for ...

Authorities on Monday were investigating the circumstances under which a contract soldier was critically injured during helicopter training. The 27-year-old special forces contract soldier was hospitalised with brain swelling and ...

Western nations on Monday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, including more sanctions on Moscow and air-defence systems, as Ukrainian officials said two Russian missiles struck ...

A “serious disruption” to the European Union’s gas supplies from Russia is likely, the bloc’s energy chief said on Monday as she urged countries to update their contingency ...

A Louisiana judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing Republican-backed laws banning abortion that were set to take effect after the US Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision to ...

Ten people died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan’s Aqaba port, officials and state media reported on Monday, as authorities called ...

There is still a lot of work to be done regarding the rights of people with disabilities, the House labour and human rights committees concluded on Monday after a joint ...

Russia declared eight Greek diplomats unwelcome and gave them eight days to leave the country, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday. Greece in April asked 12 Russian diplomats to leave ...

Norwegian police said on Monday all Pride events across the country should be delayed, citing security concerns after a deadly weekend rampage by a gunman at a gay bar in ...

Credit Suisse CSGN.S was convicted by Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court on Monday of failing to prevent money-laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang in the country’s first ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday gave two doctors found guilty of misusing their licenses in the midst of the US opioid epidemic to write thousands of prescriptions for addictive ...

Mikri Arktos is a new space in Old Nicosia and hosts local artists on its walls and musicians on its floor. Located on Peiraios Street within the walled city, the ...

The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a constitutional right to an abortion is expected to have a disproportionate impact on Black women and other women of color, who ...