Archive 2022

Ottawa police vowed on Friday to crack down on an “increasingly dangerous” protest by hundreds of truckers who have shut down the center of the Canadian capital for eight days ...

Italy’s double Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs marked his return to action for the first time since his shock win in Tokyo last year with victory in the 60 metres ...

The first main U.S. forces are expected to arrive in Poland on Saturday, defence sources told Reuters on Friday, in order to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank as the ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday he was having intensive consultations with all stakeholders to agree on changes to be forwarded to the European Commission regarding halloumi, which was ...

The health ministry announced 2,907 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths on Friday. The deaths were a man aged 85 and a woman aged 80, who died at Larnaca and Nicosia hospitals ...

A concert with works by Cypriot composer Faidros Kavallaris titled Of Transcendence will be held by the French Institute of Cyprus later this month in the context of the French ...

Digital intruders broke into News Corp email accounts and compromised the data of an unspecified number of journalists, the company disclosed Friday. The media firm’s internet security adviser said ...

A 21-year-old man is in critical condition in Nicosia General Hospital with multiple head injuries after falling some eight metres to the ground as he was installing air condition units ...

Let’s Go Tours by Amathus, preferred sales representative of Royal Caribbean Cruises in Cyprus, is now taking Summer 2022 bookings for Royal Caribbean ‘Rhapsody of the Seas’ cruises from Limassol. ...

Parents on Friday expressed their “sadness and displeasure” at the situation leading to teaching union Poed’s decision to stage a one-hour work stoppage, which is set to last from 7.30 ...

The early diagnosis and treatment of cancer can help us defeat it, the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre said on Friday in the context of World Cancer Day. Introduced in 2000 ...

A local bakery has started selling heart-shaped biscuits over Valentine’s month to support children with leukaemia. On the occasion of the month of love, Karaiskakio Foundation and Thimonia bakeries ...

Paphos police are warning of a new scam after a 73-year-old woman reported that she had given €10,000 to a man who had telephoned claiming to be a hospital director so ...

Some €2.2m will be spent on upgrading track and field facilities, while special emphasis will be given to bringing football stadiums into line with the requirements of the licensing authority, ...

For tourists, Beijing (the city’s 16th name in its 3,000-year history) is a dazzling place, a city that’s all spectacle: there’s the Forbidden City, the Temple of ...

Work to build the LNG terminal at Vasiliko is expected to start around the end of February with a view to delivering the multi-million-euro project by July 2023, the Cyprus News ...

In Cyprus, following the recent trend prevalent in almost all advanced countries, there has been a steep increase in the number of people conducting their banking online, quickly and free ...

The national Covid vaccination programme has stalled in recent days, health officials said on Friday, as the island saw a slight increase in daily positives. There has been a noticeable ...

The euro was on track on Friday for its best week versus the dollar since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, after a hawkish turn by the European Central Bank (ECB) sent ...

By John Dixon There’s no question about it. Wordle, the simple English-language word game created by software engineer Josh Wardle, is a viral hit. If you’ve tried Wordle, ...

Two more coronavirus deaths were announced on Friday, as the health ministry issued an announcement amending the number of coronavirus infections and deaths. The additional deaths raise the total fatalities ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the opening of the Beijing Winter Games, triggering a burst of fireworks that marked the start of an Olympics whose preparations were beset by the ...

Faced with deal fees in the Gulf region a fraction of those in markets elsewhere, many Dubai bankers are handing in their notices, attracted by the lure of cashing out, ...

Turkey and Israel can work together to carry Israeli natural gas to Europe and the two countries will discuss energy cooperation during talks next month, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was ...