Archive 2022

Iran-backed Hezbollah has been dealt a blow in Lebanon’s parliamentary election with preliminary results showing losses for some of its oldest allies and the Saudi-aligned Lebanese Forces party saying ...

Juvenile crime remains very low in Cyprus, but we still need a designated detention centre A law establishing a criminal justice system catering to juvenile offenders was voted in a ...

The Premier League title race looks set to go down to the final day after Manchester City dropped two points with a 2-2 draw at West Ham United on Sunday. ...

A seven-point plan for the Walled City of Nicosia By Glafkos Constantinides The Walled City of Nicosia has been attracting idle attention for years while the area continues to suffer ...

White brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in what a British military expert said looked like either ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Turkish economy has repeatedly been described as totally directed by President Erdogan’s inner circle. Economic decisions which are obviously political, such as ...

The public response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compares unfavourably with the rest of the EU I was lucky in that I was born in 1945 at the end of ...

NATO and the United States said on Sunday they were confident that Turkish concerns would not hold up bids by Finland and Sweden to join the Western military alliance in ...

The multinational civil-military exercise Argonaftis 2022, will take place between May 16 and 20, the defence ministry announced on Sunday. Argonaftis is an annual sea, air and land drill. It has not taken ...

Shanghai will gradually begin reopening businesses such as shopping malls and hair salons in China’s financial and manufacturing hub from Monday after weeks in strict COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing ...

Two years into the pandemic, the government is still keeping older adults locked down in care homes The main concern following the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak was to protect the elderly, ...

The latest bout of dust in the atmosphere was due to dissipate on Sunday after expected light rainfall, the head of the met office said. Kleanthis Nikolaides told CNA on ...

Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto confirmed on Sunday that his country would apply for membership of the NATO military alliance, in a historic policy shift prompted by Russia’s invasion ...

Italian police thwarted hacker attacks by pro-Russian groups during the May 10 semi-final and Saturday final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, authorities said on Sunday. Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra ...

Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in ...

Limassol Avenue in Larnaca, which links the coastal city with Aradippou has been renamed Vassos Lyssarides Avenue in honour of the founder of socialist Edek who died last year aged 100. ...

The government and banks issue deceptive statements and statistics and the media blindly report them without question By Les Manison According to Reporters Without Borders, Cyprus ranks 69th on the “...

Diplomat Menelaos Menelaou on Sunday takes over the duties of Greek Cypriot negotiator for Cyprus talks replacing Andreas Mavroyiannis who will run in the presidential elections with the backing of ...

More than 3,300 traffic violations were clocked in the past 48 hours, the majority for speeding, police said on Sunday. The majority of the complaints concerned offences which have been proven to ...

Former negotiator and ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis meets all of opposition Akel’s requirements to foment change in Cyprus, the party’s general-secretary Stefanos Stefanou said on Sunday. Stefanou was speaking ...

By Charalambos Sergiou, Alexandros Vacanas and Nikolas Stratis Blockchain technology is based on the establishment of a decentralised network of trust between unknown participants, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions in a cost-efficient ...

NATO is confident that it can overcome objections by Turkey and quickly admit Finland and Sweden, its deputy chief said on Sunday, as the alliance prepares for a historic enlargement ...

By Jo Adetunji In the context of work, the digital divide has become less about access to devices and connectivity and more about skills and mindset. Many experienced professionals have ...

Both the US and Russia have come unstuck on the legal differences between preventive and pre-emptive self-defence By Alper Ali Riza In his speech on Victory Day over Nazi Germany ...