Archive 2022

Italy plans to set aside more than 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) until 2030 to boost domestic chip manufacturing and support innovative technologies, a draft decree seen by Reuters showed on Tuesday. The ...

By Marilena Evangelou & Yiannis Seitanidis The imposition of severe economic sanctions in Russia has made the daily life of those Cypriots who are in the country for work or ...

One of the main reasons for failing public education is excessive power wielded by the teaching unions. This union power has created a public school system that primarily exists to ...

Almost 20 per cent more rain than normal fell between October 2021 and February 2022, significantly boosting water stocks in the dams which on Tuesday were 85.5 per cent full. According to the Meteorology ...

Many people start reading about Bitcoin to learn about it and hear people referring to cryptocurrency as a religion. In fact, some promoters of Bitcoin claim that they are Friars, ...

As Russian rockets pounded targets in eastern Ukraine, men of fighting age lined up for hours outside gun shops in the western city of Lviv on Tuesday to buy hunting ...

World Athletics on Tuesday joined a growing list of sporting bodies to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes, while tennis’s governing bodies barred players from competing under the name or ...

The leaders of the two largest opposition parties met on Tuesday to sound each other out ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, while other such exploratory discussions are scheduled for this ...

Two British men have been charged by federal prosecutors in New York with defrauding people into investing nearly $100 million in loans supposedly backed by an inventory of expensive wine that ...

Meta Platforms FB.O is globally demoting content from Russian state-controlled media outlets’ Facebook pages and Instagram accounts, as well as posts containing links to those outlets on Facebook, the ...

The Taliban’s spokesman on Tuesday said that Afghans with legal documents could travel abroad, after the United States and United Kingdom raised concerns over previous comments that travel restrictions ...

US President Joe Biden, who has earned praise for his efforts to rally European allies and other nations against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, will turn to ...

Further easing of coronavirus restrictions will reportedly include the lifting of SafePass requirements to enter certain places, and are expected to be announced later this week, a health ministry spokesman ...

A number of Ukraine-based companies have expressed an interest in headquartering their business in Cyprus, according to the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev). Speaking to news outlet Stockwatch, Oev’s ...

Concerns are rising about the effect cryptocurrency is having on the environment. Most people find that shocking because it’s a digital currency. However, the blockchain has a poor sustainability ...

One death from coronavirus and 1,986 new infections were announced by the health ministry on Tuesday from 102,159 tests, a positivity rate of 1.94 per cent. The new death, which concerned an 82-year-old ...

A woman whose rescue of two dogs from a cage led to their owner being convicted of animal abuse and four volunteers who saved a dog and her six puppies ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia expressed a common will to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, during a meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday. ...

Flights abroad increased by 263 per cent in January 2022 over the previous January although they were down 64 per cent on pre-pandemic January 2020. According to the Cypriot statistical service, trips abroad for ...

Any improvement between Israel-Turkey relations will not be to the detriment of Cyprus or any other country in the region, Israeli ambassador to Cyprus Oran Anolik said on Tuesday. “We ...

Russia warned Kyiv residents to flee their homes on Tuesday and rained rockets on the city of Kharkiv as Russian commanders intensified their bombardment of Ukrainian urban areas in a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the EU on Tuesday to “prove that you are with us” in Ukraine’s war with Russia, a day after Kyiv officially asked to join ...

Climate change is warming Arctic waters By Yereth Rosen With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted ...

The first evacuation of 42 civilians from the Ukraine, including children and elderly, has been successfully completed, Cyprus foreign ministry spokesman Demetris Demetriou said on Tuesday. On Twitter, he said the ...