Archive 2022

Security concerns raised by Turkey in its opposition to Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership applications are legitimate, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday during a visit ...

A new book on the island’s leaders says the first president was incapable of taking decisions that did not have general and universal acceptance Poor leadership, which takes decisions ...

Cyprus’ Olympic champion, Karolina Pelendritou, went through to the finals of the Women’s 50m Freestyle S11 at the Madeira 2022 Para Swimming World Championships taking place from 12-18 June 2022. The ...

By Judith G. Garber For 109 days, the people of Ukraine have courageously and fiercely defended their homeland against Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and unjust war. Even before Russia fired the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the focus on the war in Ukraine, the public often overlooks other crises, especially in regions whose impact on global food supplies and ...

Burglars netted around €30,000 euros in cash from a house in Yeroskipou, police said on Sunday. Paphos CID is investigating. Police said the culprits had also taken the CCTV system set ...

Cyprus, for the third consecutive time has won the track and field Championships of the Small States of Europe (CCSE) held in Malta on Saturday. According to a press release ...

Pope Francis apologised to the people of Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on Sunday for having to cancel his visit because of walking problems, and said he was ...

In a secular state the Church cannot relinquish its spiritual role for cheap politicking I have been led to the conclusion that there is no God by Archbishop Chrysostomos, with ...

Beijing’s most populous district Chaoyang announced three rounds of mass testing to quell a “ferocious” COVID-19 outbreak that emerged at a bar in a nightlife and shopping area last ...

Legislation that Britain will unilaterally bring forward on Monday to scrap some of the rules that govern post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland will not break international law, minister Brandon Lewis ...

The Sakura Japanese Cherry Park in of Kambos was inaugurated on Saturday as part of celebrations to mark 60 years of diplomatic ties between Cyprus and Japan. Japanese ambassador Izumi Seki ...

Ukraine has established two routes through Poland and Romania to export grain and avert a global food crisis although bottlenecks have slowed the supply chain, Kyiv’s deputy foreign minister ...

Is it right to have national health policy being dictated, top-down, by a global entity asks Theo Panayides The annual summit of the World Health Assembly – the decision-making body of ...

The war in Ukraine and China’s increasingly tense relationship with the United States featured in nearly every session of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, which ended on Sunday after ...

Ruling Disy’s presidential candidate Averof Neophytou took swipes at his rivals in the February 2023 elections honing in on the Cyprus issue and the energy crisis. In an interview with ...

Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the nation faces shortages amid an unprecedented economic crisis, its prime minister told the Associated Press. Prime Minister ...

McDonald’s MCD.N restaurants flung open their doors in Moscow once again on Sunday under new Russian ownership and a new name: Vkusno & tochka, which translates as “Tasty ...

Analyst says the level of anti-Greek sentiment in Turkey right now is historically high. ‘We haven’t seen anything like it in some 30 years’ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly ...

French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first of two rounds that will decide whether President Emmanuel Macron gets a working majority in parliament or ends up ...

The rouble soared on Friday to its strongest level against the dollar since late May, close to multi-year peaks, after Russia’s central bank cut its key interest rate by 150 ...

Beachgoers who headed out of the city for the holiday weekend should expect cloudy weather and isolated showers at least on the south-eastern end of the island on Sunday, the ...

Stubbornly hot US inflation is fueling bets that the Federal Reserve will get more aggressive about trying to cool price pressures and even potentially ditch its own forward guidance by ...

There is no such animal as an ideal prime minister I was woken up by the earthquake on Friday morning and decided to stay up in case there was another ...