Archive 2022

The European Union’s top court on Wednesday cleared the way for the bloc to potentially cut billions of euros in handouts to Poland and Hungary where populist rulers stand ...

Following a joint exhibition titled Autobiographical in 2018 in Amsterdam, the work of Lefteris Olympios and Johannes van Vugt meets once more, this time at Gloria Gallery in Nicosia. The two ...

The health ministry on Wednesday reminded citizens that they can obtain their free Covid-19 self-test kits. Beneficiaries are citizens who have completed their vaccination scheme with two doses for the ...

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world’s most valuable automaker to a charity from Nov. 19 to Nov. 29 last year, its filing with the ...

Activist and volunteer Alexis Sophocleous will participate in a 130-kilometre hike which will start next Tuesday in Paphos and finish on Sunday in Larnaca to support leukaemia patients. The event ...

Yianno Koumoudjian, Cyprus’ only participant in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, failed to finish the Men’s Slalom on Wednesday morning. The 25-year-old recorded a ‘Did Not Finish’ on his first ...

The Cyprus Consumers Association on Wednesday urged authorities to take action following a three per cent increase in the cost of fresh pasteurised milk it says is unjustified. In a ...

An “important development” has been made in the investigation centered on the Al Jazeera expose, which implicated top Cypriot politicians in corruption within the controversial citizenship by investment programme. The ...

Police on Wednesday were investigating whether human traffickers assisted the entry to the Republic of two unaccompanied three-year-old twin girls, one of whom was found wandering alone in the buffer ...

Russia said more of its forces surrounding Ukraine were withdrawing on Wednesday but Britain joined the United States in saying it had yet to be convinced the pullout was real. ...

Larnaca’s archaeological museum reopened on Thursday, with new exhibits discovered at recent excavations enriching an already impressive collection showcasing the history of the district. Speaking at the ceremony, Transport ...

Although the pandemic caused delays in plans for the state’s complete modernisation, we are now facing a new reality that acts as a springboard in our drive to reactivate ...

The Council of Ministers has decided that the new action plan for the smooth operation of flights and airports will enter into force from February 21, instead of March 1 as initially ...

In a candle and scent maker THEO PANAYIDES finds a woman who is something of a dreamer, who claims to be a modern witch and a believer that God is ...

Cyprus Energy Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Marios Panayides chaired the 17th Summit of the Executive Council of East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) which unanimously approved its work programme for 2022, including ...

A moderate earthquake rattled the Portuguese island of Madeira in the early hours on Wednesday, scaring residents but causing no damage or injuries, the Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA) ...

Clement Noel scorched the ‘Ice River’ course in a stunning second run to win the men’s slalom event at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday – France’s first Alpine skiing ...

P.J. O’Rourke, the American journalist, political satirist and best-selling author who rose to fame as editor-in-chief of the now-defunct humor magazine National Lampoon, has died at the age ...

Police on Wednesday confirmed reports that a teenager assaulted a high school student earlier this week, the same day that secondary school teachers reiterated their request for guards in schools. ...

Addressing plastic solution and the impact of plastics in the Mediterranean are at the focus of the Plastic Waste Free Islands Med Final Event (PWFI) being organised in Nicosia on ...

It’s not you, it’s me. I just need some time alone right now. I need space. Sound familiar? If you are part of the hunger game, sorry, dating ...

It’s hard to find something to new to say about a book – or rather, a short story – that is already well known. Recitatif was first published in 1983, and has ...

In today’s episode, a search that lasted much of the day for a missing three-year-old girl after her twin was found alone in the buffer zone early on Tuesday ...

Appointments at the cardiology clinic of Paphos general hospital will need to be postponed, as only two cardiologists are working there since Monday. The understaffing of the clinic was announced ...