Archive 2022

Police in Larnaca arrested a 30-year-old man wanted by Moldovan authorities, based on an international warrant. The 30-year-old has reportedly been sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Moldovan authorities ...

Paphos police arrested two people – aged 35 and 26 – in connection to a number of thefts. In the first case, a 35-year-old woman was arrested in connection to a house robbery. According ...

A 23-year-old man is under arrest in connection with a fire which broke out at midday on Friday in a village in the Nicosia district, near the state forest, the ...

By Lauren Taylor You’ve probably heard the saying that dessert cookery is ‘scientific’. One mistake and your cake/tart/meringue will fall into a heap. It’s a reputation ...

A 37-year-old man was arrested on Friday by Limassol police on suspicion of burglary and theft of equipment from a former restaurant, worth about €100,000. According to police, the burglary was ...

One young Cypriot travelled into the depths of Africa’s Limpopo, and there discovered what the West has lost It took Tonia Constantinou two full days to return home from ...

With June just around the corner, Rialto Theatre is preparing another month packed with performances celebrating local productions, international collaborations and the art world in general. Launching June’s events ...

Infections at various beaches in the north have been observed at the beginning of this summer season, according to Turkish Cypriot press reports. According to reports from the north, the ...

The Bank of Cyprus plans to reduce the number of its branches by 25 per cent and workforce by 15 per cent this year. In numbers, this means 500 jobs will go and ...

The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) on Friday announced that it welcomes the positions adopted by the Environment Committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament regarding the revision of the EU Emissions ...

Russia’s Gazprom GAZP.MM on Saturday halted gas exports to neighbouring Finland, in the latest escalation of an energy payments dispute with Western nations. Gazprom Export has demanded that ...

The market size of the global gaming industry as a whole reached $195.65 billion in 2021, according to a report by San Francisco-based market research and consulting company Grand View Research released ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The European Commission has recently published its spring forecasts for the European Union, for the bloc as a whole and also by country, over a two-year horizon. ...

Recognising the need to monitor the buffer zone to avoid the flow of migrants from the north, lawmakers and police on Friday raised questions and serious doubts about plans to ...

During the pandemic, the government would often defend the restrictions it was imposing by citing what was happening in other EU countries. This was used as emphatic proof that it ...

Violent storms buffeting western Germany on Friday killed at least one man and injured some 40 people, 10 of them seriously, when an apparent tornado raked several towns, police and local media ...

Emmanuel Macron retained his finance and interior ministers while appointing only the second woman to head France’s foreign ministry, as the president reshuffled his cabinet ahead of parliamentary elections ...

Germany and Italy told companies they could open rouble accounts to keep buying Russian gas without breaching sanctions against Moscow following discussions with the European Union, sources said. The debate ...

The brand new Palodia primary school has been deemed unsafe for pupils, while class overcrowding was flagged at Parekklisia primary by lawmakers from the House education committee during a visit ...

Russia’s defence ministry on Friday said the last group of Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol’s smashed Azovstal steel works had surrendered, marking an end to a weeks-long ...

Britain reduced its COVID-19 alert level from four to three on Friday, saying the Omicron-variant wave of the virus was subsiding and healthcare pressures continued to decrease in all nations. “...

Lebanon’s government foresees cancelling “a large part” of the central bank’s foreign currency obligations to commercial banks and dissolving non-viable banks by November, according to a financial recovery ...

The “foreign ministry” in the north claimed short staffing for problems with the operation of the Dherynia check-point crossing. According to a report by the Press and Information Office (PIO), ...

The Ukraine crisis grabbed the spotlight in Cannes on Friday as a semi-naked protester painted in blue and yellow was ejected from the red carpet. The unidentified woman ripped off ...