Archive 2022

Adored by travellers and locals alike, Agros village has plenty to offer visitors on any given day. Agrotourism stays, cafés serving homemade sweets and jams and picturesque spots pull ...

In today’s episode, business leaders have called on President Nicos Anastasiades to urgently boost the island’s self-sufficiency in terms of the food supply, warning that based on current ...

Paphos police caught a man driving under the influence of drugs late on Wednesday. The driver tested positive in a narcotest carried out by traffic police who stopped his car ...

Police on Thursday said they have confiscated a number of firearms and ammunition found in an outdoor space in Larnaca. Following tip off, police found an automatic firearm, a loaded ...

A 28-year-old man has been arrested in Paphos in connection with a kiosk robbery, burglary and theft, police said Thursday. According to Paphos CID chief and spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, evidence ...

Nicosia police on Thursday said they have arrested two men, aged 52 and 25, as well as a 47-year-old woman as part of investigations into cases where scammers posing as doctors extorted ...

Council for Registration of Real Estate Agents president Marinos Kineyirou on Wednesday said that the Cypriot property market is not currently going through a bubble, despite the concession that prices ...

North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the “gravest national emergency” and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been detected ...

European Union leaders said on Thursday that the EU wants to become a bigger actor in Asia, which they termed a “theatre of tensions”, warning of an increasingly assertive China ...

Some Western companies have agreed to sell their Russian assets or hand them over to local managers as they scramble to comply with sanctions over the Ukraine conflict and deal ...

Cypriot banks were presented with bad checks worth a total of €438,000 in April, according to data released on Wednesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). This is the largest ...

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Yannis Matsis as managing director and head of its office ...

Air travel to Cyprus by 2035 could be so prohibitive due to green commitments that the island could lose 15-20 per cent of its tourism and 1.7 per cent of its GDP ...

WITH the UN warning last month of famine in around 80 countries worldwide due to pandemic fallout and the Ukraine war, and with impending shortages and rising prices looming in the ...

Manchester City’s midfield genius Kevin De Bruyne scored four goals on Wednesday in a 5-1 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers to put his team in a commanding position to retain ...

Russian diplomat Sergiy Andreev was feeling unwelcome on the streets of Warsaw even before protesters doused him with red liquid thrown in his face at short range this week. Soon ...

A fourth suspect has been charged in relation to last month’s incidents at Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in Larnaca which left one man with serious burns, police said on Wednesday. ...

The government has always recognised and supported the evolution of the University of Cyprus into an ambitious and proactive centre of scientific excellence, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday after ...

Ukrainian officials issued dire warnings on Wednesday about the fate of civilians and the last fighters in Mariupol after weeks of Russian bombardment which the city’s mayor said had ...

The discovery last week of three dead vultures in Paphos is “a huge blow” to the species’ population in Cyprus, according to a joint statement issued on Wednesday by the ...

The chaotic and violent scenes at last year’s Euro 2020 final at Wembley can never be repeated, according to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. An independent review of the disorder at ...

Greece on Wednesday banned conversion therapy for minors, a practice aimed at suppressing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and which the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community ...

By Antigoni Pitta and Nick Theodoulou Cyprus cannot continue to perpetuate irrational privileges for state officials, presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said on Wednesday, referring to the double appointment of his ...

MPs from the House ethics committee are calling on the government and wider public sector authorities to clamp down on employees who are engaged in private businesses without the requisite ...