Archive 2022

Human rights defenders in Greece, particularly those documenting the treatment of migrants and refugees, face smear campaigns and are treated like criminals, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary ...

The senior police officer, who allegedly colluded with an inmate to damage the reputation of the central prisons director Anna Aristotelous, was on Wednesday suspended until July 20. Justice Minister Stefi ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Turkey for the first time in years on Wednesday for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan aimed at fully normalising ties that were ...

The fire that broke out in the Kotsiatis area on Wednesday after noon and later spread outside the former landfill was put under control later in the day according to ...

President Anastasiades left for Brussels on Wednesday to take part in the European Council meetings. On the agenda of the European summit, which will be held on Thursday and Friday ...

The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan on Wednesday hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from ...

Europe must keep up its support for Ukraine even as faltering Russian gas supplies raise recession fears, a senior EU official said, adding that a shift towards using coal to ...

More than 1.2 million tickets have been sold for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, organisers said on Wednesday. The most recent phase of ticket sales, a random selection draw, closed at the ...

Nearly two-thirds of Europeans consider membership of the European Union a “good thing”, according to a survey by the bloc’s parliament published on Wednesday, marking the highest result in 15 ...

Tens of thousands of music fans streamed into Worthy Farm on Wednesday for the return after three years of Glastonbury, the beloved music festival that will feature hundreds of artists ...

Pizza: high-end gourmet fare or affordable food for the people? That is the question pitting Italian billionaire Flavio Briatore against chefs in Naples, where pizza making has UNESCO world heritage ...

A month of performances and dance acts is coming to an end on Friday as the Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival wraps up. The final performance is scheduled for this week ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has repeated that a solution based on bizonal federation was non-functional and that there was no turning back from the two-state solution now backed by ...

Confusion reigned the house education committee on Wednesday as deputies discussed state scholarships for university study, with the vague aim of making them fairer. The possibility of amending the legislation ...

Batches of locally produced frozen pork ‘sheftalia’ and chicken burgers were withdrawn from the market due to a salmonella link, the health ministry’s health services announced on Wednesday. The ...

The villages of Flamoudi and Ardana in the north were evacuated by Turkish Cypriot authorities in the early hours of Thursday after a huge fire broke out in Kantara, on ...

More than two decades have passed since Iran’s Mehdi Mahdavikia famously sealed a 2-1 victory over the United States but the thrill of delivering his country their first ever ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 30-year-old woman for illegal possession and carriage of ‘explosives’, the Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Wednesday. The ‘explosives’ referred to by the police ...

If your portfolio has been struggling in recent weeks, you’re not the only one. Everyone’s has. It’s a difficult market right now, and nobody is sure how ...

Bayview High School’s follow-up One of Us Is Lying is a perilous truth or dare game. The TV show is an American young adult mystery drama created by Erica ...

Pastry chef Michael Mavromoustakis created optical illusion desserts during a chocolate master class for professional chefs at Intercollege in Nicosia. During the 10-hour workshop, professional pastry chefs made a set ...

The University of Cyprus has been ranked 473rd in the QS World University Rankings, maintaining its position among the top universities worldwide for a third consecutive year. According to the ...

The council of ministers has given the green light for the creation of a national unit for the enforcement of sanctions. The unit’s overarching aim is to ensure that ...

Lithuania will be prepared if Russia disconnects it from the regional power grid in retaliation for blocking rail shipments of some Russian goods to Moscow’s Kaliningrad exclave, but no ...