Archive 2022

MPs approved the government’s second supplementary €345m budget on Friday with 49 votes in favour and one abstention. The key points of the additional budget are €150m to be spent ...

One of the suspects in the murder of Turkish Cypriot inmate, Tansu Cidan, has entered the witness protection programme in order to testify against the main suspect, reports said on ...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party secured a resounding victory in a vote for a parliament seat in northwest England on Friday, showing the scale of the challenge facing Prime Minister ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday addressed the House plenum during his presentation of the government’s economic policy for the coming year, saying that the current administration is submitting ...

Where do you live? Nicosia, alone for now as I am single 😊 What did you have for breakfast? Usually, my breakfast does not contain carbohydrates, I try to avoid them. ...

The supreme court unanimously approved the attorney-general’s appeal over the 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier ...

The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to “weaken Ukraine ...

Winegrowers in Paphos blocked central Neophytos Nicolaides Avenue in Paphos on Friday morning in protest to the government compensation scheme which they deemed incomplete and unsatisfactory. Prior to the protest, ...

Watching the seven episodes of The Watcher, the Netflix thriller series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan – the same minds behind the platform’s hugely successful show about Jeffrey ...

Elton John will headline Glastonbury next summer in the last British show on his lengthy global farewell tour at the renowned music festival on Worthy Farm. One of the biggest ...

Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that will penalise sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, officials ...

Wargaming Group Limited on Friday announced that on November 30 2022, it reached an agreement to sell a holding of 13.41 per cent (55,337,721 shares) in Hellenic Bank Public Company Limited (“Hellenic Bank”) to ...

Cyprus will reap €4.4 billion from the ‘Cyprus Tomorrow’ plan, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday during the first event over the country’s Recovery and Resilience plan. As part of ...

Unions on Friday accused state health services organisation (Okypy) of delaying talks to reach collective agreements with staff working at state hospitals. In a statement from all the labour unions: ...

Dec 1 (Reuters) – 2022 has been a rough year for the crypto industry. The price of bitcoin has dropped 65 per cent since the start of the year, the cryptocurrency Luna suffered a ...

Plenty of music nights are happening this month amid the Christmas craze. Several bars in Nicosia and Limassol continue their events schedule with local musicians doing what they do best. ...

The upgrade of the National Guard’s capabilities and equipment is a priority for Cyprus, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday, speaking as he awarded green berets to this ...

Two students at a high school in Larnaca were expelled after a fight that saw one of them threaten the other with a knife. The incident occurred on Friday morning. ...

The radiology team of the Paphos general hospital staged an impromptu two-hour work stoppage on Friday morning, citing heavy workload and staff shortages. According to the employees, eight people are ...

NatWest (NWG.L) has offered the bulk of its 41,500 staff in Britain a pay rise and one-off cash sum to help them cope with soaring prices, after a backlash from ...

JPMorgan (JPM.N) will join HSBC (HSBA.L) in storing bullion for the world’s biggest gold-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF), the fund’s operator said on Thursday, ending its rival’...

France’s Stephanie Frappart made history on Thursday when she became the first woman to take charge of a men’s World Cup finals game during Costa Rica’s Group ...

Leading indicators for the second half continue pointing to a slowdown in growth due to the weakening foreign demand, the Turkish central bank said on Thursday, a week after it ...

An Eastern lunch Chickpea Filo Triangles This is one of the dishes that’s on my vegan menu for The Real Greek. It has proved to be very popular as ...