Archive 2022

olice handed out fines totalling €500 to a single business for violating health protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus in the 24 hours to 9:26 am Saturday, the Cyprus News Agency reported. ...

The Edit Gallery is getting ready to present Lefki Savvidou’s solo exhibition, titled Cinderella, Don’t Forget to Take Your Meds. Opening on March 11, this will be the visual ...

Paphos police have arrested a 26-year-old woman who is suspected of burglary, theft and the illegal possession of stolen property. According to a police statement, an 82-year-old Paphos resident reported ...

Police expect heavy traffic due to Green Monday excursions and will be taking mitigating measures to avoid accidents and congestion. There will be increased patrolling and checks, mainly to curb ...

In bright sunshine, a long queue of shoppers snaked outside an IKEA store near Moscow this week. Similar scenes were repeated across Russia as families rushed to spend their fast-depreciating ...

By Lauren Taylor You wouldn’t think a top chef would dare serve a Michelin inspector instant custard power – but that’s exactly what Phil Vickery did. “I did a ...

The vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Liliana Pavlova, visited the University of Cyprus this week in order to review the activities and funded projects of the EIB ...

NATO on Friday rejected Ukrainian calls to help it protect its skies from Russian missiles and warplanes, wary of being dragged into Moscow’s war on its neighbour, but Europe ...

KODAP released its 2022 budget in early February. Out of €119million, over €34 million is allocated to the construction of a strategic oil reserve storage at Vasiliko, with another €23million budgeted to ...

Hope Foundation (Elpida) will be hosting war-stricken Ukrainian children with cancer and providing treatment. Most Ukrainian children suffering from cancer have been left without treatment because of the war. Lymphomas, ...

By Ioannis Tirkides This is an unfortunate war and sets in motion significant new long-term processes in the relations between East and West, Russia’s place in the global system ...

By George Pirishis A large number of people based in Russia who work for companies registered in Cyprus have expressed an interest in moving to the island, non-profit organisation TechIsland ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Antigoni Pitta Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos and Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios reassured hoteliers and local authorities in the Famagusta district on Friday that the ...

On Wednesday, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) that operates the national health system, finally announced the measures it would take to put an end to Gesy abuses. The HIO, which ...

A Catholic bishop accused of sexually abusing young men studying to be priests was found guilty by a court in northern Argentina on Friday, capping over a week of often ...

Russia blocked Facebook and some other websites and passed a law that gave Moscow much stronger powers to crack down on independent journalism, prompting the BBC, Bloomberg and other foreign ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reinstated convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more ...

The United States still needs other nations to take Afghans who fled their homeland last year, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, six months after Washington’...

Authorities on Friday announced four more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing detected 2,114 new positives. The latest fatalities were two women, aged 79 and 90, who passed away on Friday; and two ...

Britain’s BBC said on Friday it would temporarily suspend the work of all its journalists and support staff in Russia following the introduction of a new law that could ...

What more could nature teach us if we spent more time with her? What more would we learn about ourselves and the world? Exactly this is what the Forest and ...

Ukraine‘s central bank governor, Kyrylo Shevchenko, called on the United States and the European Union on Friday to freeze the assets of all Russian banks within their jurisdiction and ...

Ukraine still has a “significant majority” of its military aircraft available nine days after Russian forces started their invasion of the country, a U.S. defense official said on Friday. ...

NATO on Friday rejected Ukrainian calls for help to protect its skies from Russian warplanes, wary of being dragged into Moscow’s war on its neighbour, but Europe promised more ...