Archive 2022

The Akamas development plan is expected to be announced by mid-June and the leaked details have been embraced by some of the region’s communities but rubbished by others. The ...

It is astonishing that in the year 2022 that deputies are discussing whether the names of person’s parents should be included on identity cards. What is even more astonishing is ...

Talks between Turkish officials and delegations from Sweden and Finland have made little headway overcoming Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bids, and it is not clear when further ...

Panicked children called 911 emergency services at least half a dozen times from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, while roughly 20 officers waited in ...

Falling ice boulders killed two climbers and hurt nine more on a peak in southwestern Switzerland on Friday, prompting a major rescue operation, police said. Several chunks of ice fell ...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Ukraine‘s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, discussed ways to free up exports to tackle the food crisis that is threatening the world’s poorest countries, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades, expressed the hope that wiser thoughts will prevail on the part of Turkey in relation to its ongoing provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. ...

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him on Friday that Moscow would meet its natural gas delivery commitments to Austria and was ready to discuss a ...

Cocaine weighing 6.5 kilos was found by the police drug squad (Ykan) in Limassol on Friday as part of a large-scale operation which is currently underway. A police statement also said ...

Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf on Friday, shortly after Tehran warned it would take “punitive action” against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the ...

India ordered the transfer of a bureaucrat couple to opposite ends of the country on Thursday, following public outcry over a media report alleging they forced a sports stadium in ...

Bulgaria’s government on Friday approved a plan to join the euro zone as of Jan. 1, 2024, amid concerns within the ruling coalition over the lack of detailed analysis on the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city filled with palaces, pyramids and plazas on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Merida, on ...

Argentina confirmed the first case of monkeypox in Latin America on Friday and reported another suspected case of the disease, the Ministry of Health said in a press statement. Spain, ...

President Nikos Anastasiades told France24 in an interview aired on Thursday that Russian and Turkish revisionism were comparable, that he remains firm on bizonal bicommunal federation, and that seizing Russian ...

A musical summer evening at Kolossi Castle is being put on by NGO KYFA (Kentron Ypostirixis Foreon Aids) to support families, and especially women with children, who have been affected ...

The role of national parliaments in preventing and fighting corruption was discussed on Friday during an international conference organised in Nicosia by the House of Representatives with the support of ...

Opposition Akel’s central committee on Friday announced that it has decided to go ahead and support independent candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis for the 2023 presidential elections. “Akel’s central committee met ...

Bank of Cyprus (BoC) has taken silver in the ‘Best Compliance Team’ category of the 2022 ICA Compliance Awards. The inaugural Awards, held as a hybrid event on May 19, recognise the ...

By Andrea Charalambous An incentive plan for the purchase of protective equipment for motorcyclists was approved by the council of ministers on Friday. The subsidy amount will be €500 or the ...

Italy coach Roberto Mancini insisted his decision to keep faith with the same players who won the European Championships last July for the Azzurri’s disastrous World Cup qualification campaign ...

Cyprus’ Central Bank (CBC) governor, Constantinos Herodotou on Friday projected that an expected rise in interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB) would be manageable. Herodotou’s comments came ...

Labour inspectors will in June focus on photographers, flower shops and weddings and christening services as part of an ongoing campaign to combat undeclared work and ensure compliance with labour ...

By Andrea Charalambous As part of the project ‘Keep our Sand and Sea Plastic Free’ an event will take place on Wednesday, June 1 at Malama Beach Holiday Village, Protaras. The ...