NATO to pledge aid to Baltics and Ukraine, urge Turkey to let in Nordics
NATO leaders will urge Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to lift his veto over Finland and Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance when they meet for a three-day summit ...
UN special rep to hold separate meetings with Anastasiades and Tatar
The UNSG’s special representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, will hold separate meetings with president Nicos Anastasiades, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar on Monday.
The meetings take place ahead ...
English school staff stage third protest (Updated)
The English School staff union (ESSA) is held a third protest on Monday morning outside the presidential palace.
In a statement, the organisation said that unfortunately while the minister of ...
Woman arrested in connection with subsidies fraud
Limassol police have arrested a 30-year-old colleague of a 41-year-old woman who is in custody in connection with a subsidies fraud.
The 41-year-old is being held in custody in connection ...
Abortion ruling casts cloud over usual cheer at U.S. Pride parades
People attending Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ+ communities across the United States expressed outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, and a wave ...
UK presses on with changes to Brexit deal despite EU opposition
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government will press ahead on Monday with legislation to scrap rules on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, setting up further clashes with the European ...
Russian forces turn sights on Lysychansk in battle for eastern Ukraine
Russian forces were fighting on Monday to achieve one of their strategic objectives in Ukraine as Moscow-backed separatists said they were pushing into Lysychansk, the last major city still held ...
Crypto exchange FTX in discussion to acquire stake in BlockFi
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is in talks to acquire a stake in crypto lender BlockFi, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The companies had previously announced ...
After pressure from Toyota chief, Japan emphasized support for hybrids
Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T) chief lobbied the Japanese government to make clear it supported hybrid vehicles as much as battery electrics or face losing the auto industry’s support, ...
Apple ready to bargain with its first US store to unionise
Apple Inc (AAPL.O)accepts the outcome of a vote by Maryland store workers to become its first US employees to join a union and is ready to bargain with ...
Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves sufficient for 5.7 months, minister says
Egypt has strategic reserves of wheat sufficient for 5.7 months, Supply Minister Aly Moselhy said in a news conference on Sunday, adding that the country has procured 3.9 million tonnes of wheat ...
Search for remains of nurses killed in Tylliria in 1964
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is carrying out exhumations at the Paphos cemetery as part of efforts to identify the remains of people who perished in the Tylliria area ...
Podcast to show the island’s rich and diverse history
The history of Cyprus is being brought to life in an entertaining new podcast called, surprisingly enough, The History of Cyprus, aimed at both academics and the man on the ...
Israel: it’s all about Bibi
There was a rare moment of grace in Israeli politics last Monday, as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced they would dissolve their extraordinary coalition and ...
Leaders at G7 mock bare-chested horseback rider Putin
Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations mocked the macho image of their absent adversary Vladimir Putin on Sunday, at a meeting in Germany dominated by the Russian President’...
Weekend Escapes: Episode 6 “Loud Music Festival 2022 ”
In the sixth episode of “Weekend Escapes,” series founder, Alexandros Tsangarides, visits the LOUD MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022. For the 7th time in Cyprus the ‘biggest’ and ‘loudest’ festival of Cyprus returns ...
Primary school children involved in protecting under-threat vultures
Spanish experts were on the island this week to share expertise on protecting wildlife from poison baits as part of a wider campaign to bolster the island’s embattled Griffon ...
Post fact figments, sometimes of imagination: The Cyprus Airways crash of the 1960s
Nicholas Karides looks at a new intricately constructed account of a Cyprus Airways crash in the 60s
As if the collective Cypriot mind didn’t have enough trouble distinguishing myth ...
Putin to make first foreign trip since launching Ukraine war
Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader’s first known ...
Thousands protest in Madrid against Nato summit
Carrying the hammer and sickle flags of the former Soviet Union, thousands protested in Madrid on Sunday against a NATO summit which will take place in the Spanish capital next ...
Russia steps up missile strikes on Ukraine as G7 leaders gather (Update 5)
Russian missiles hit an apartment block and kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes U.S. President Joe Biden condemned as “barbarism” as world leaders gathered in ...
PwC survey: ‘Great Resignation’ of workers is set to continue as pressure on pay mounts
Global workforce appears divided, while those lacking skills also lack clout in the workplace
By PwC
The ‘Great Resignation’ will continue apace in the year ahead as one in five ...
Cyprus joining Nato: why not?
Should we not re-evaluate, calmly and unemotionally, the possibility of expressing an interest in admission?
Undoubtedly, the prospect of Cyprus joining Nato is an emotionally charged issue for those who, ...
New forms of employment and policy repercussions
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
During the last decade, important structural changes occurred in the labour markets of advanced economies. These were reinforced by ongoing developments during the prolonged ...