Archive 2022

British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and dual national Anousheh Ashouri left Iran on Wednesday, ending years of detention, after the UK government paid its $530 million debt to Tehran, Iranian state ...

Spanish club Real Madrid will donate one million euros ($1.10 million) to help those displaced in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, the LaLiga leaders said on Wednesday. Real said the funds ...

A marina for yachts and related facilities will be set up in the area of the fenced-off town of Varosha in the Famgusta area in the north, Turkish Cypriot press ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Ireland, isle of saints and scholars. Glowing PR to which we can add sinners given the past clerical abuse of unmarried mothers ...

The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra is entering the new season with a new range of concert series. Invited conductors, guest musicians and soloists are joining the orchestra to share highlights from ...

The interior ministry said on Wednesday that 32 people have changed their name and gender on their official government documents in the past six years. The data for the years 2016-2021 ...

The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was fully exposed on Wednesday as Vladimir Putin’s sanctions-ravaged government teetered on the brink of its first international debt default ...

The mediterranean island of Cyprus was a one time tax haven which still attracts huge amounts of foreign investment. Its flat, low tax rates, privacy laws and geographical location have ...

European Union regulators have told some banks to scrutinise transactions by all Russian and Belarusian clients, including EU residents, to ensure that they are not used to circumvent Western sanctions ...

One hundred and fifty unaccompanied minors currently at Pournara are to be transferred to other accommodation units in Famagusta, while the interior ministry said that 317 irregular migrants had arrived in ...

The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation is accepting creative collaboration proposals from aspiring artists, science teams and educators, related to a series of actions that are being planned. Collaboration applications ...

Two new grant schemes were on Wednesday announced by the energy ministry totalling € 49 million, for the energy upgrade of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), non-profit organisations (NGOs), local government authorities ...

All four tennis Grand Slams will use a 10-point tiebreak in the final set on a trial basis starting with the French Open in May, the governing body of the ...

Manchester United have gone too many years without trophies and need a more determined collective effort to end their drought, goalkeeper David de Gea said after they crashed out of ...

A 25-year-old woman was arrested at Paphos airport for attempting to leave the country using a stolen passport, police said on Wednesday. Paphos police deputy chief Michalis Ioannou said the ...

The Cyprus Union of journalists said on Wednesday they had held a meeting with government spokesman Marios Pelekanos seeking more access to the palace and called for an end to ...

By Andreas Pavlou Leoni Bella Vassiliou, a student at Aradippou High School, recently came first in the world in a poster competition for International World Food Day. In a written ...

Bad weather may have kept micro-satellite PICO from breaking the world record last month, but congratulations were still in order for the young explorers who attempted it and their teacher, ...

Russia said on Wednesday that some parts of a possible peace deal with Ukraine were close to being agreed after Kyiv agreed to discuss neutrality, raising hopes of an end ...

In a contender for the world title, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man looking for love who has found peace in poetry Argyris Loizou sits in his small first-floor flat off ...

Russian ambassador to Nicosia, Stanislav Osadchiy has warned that Moscow is keeping score and will take everything that Nicosia does as regards the war in Ukraine into account when it ...

In today’s episode, the finance ministry has revised its forecast for inflation this year from an initial 1.5 per cent to 4 per cent, as petrol prices surge in the wake ...

About 20,000 people have managed to escape the besieged port of Mariupol in private cars, the Ukrainian interior ministry said on Wednesday, but hundreds of thousands remain trapped by Russian shelling, ...

Police and the fire service were investigating after a fire broke out and destroyed the car of a 69-year-old woman in Kakopetria, early on Wednesday. Authorities received information about the ...