Archive 2022

In today’s episode, some 1,300 people will be hired in the police force and the fire department during the course of 2023. According to a briefing to parliament given by Justice ...

A new season of events, joining Cyprus musicians with other professionals from the international music scene, is about to embark. Staying true to what it does and continuing its monthly ...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake was felt in Paphos early Wednesday morning at 4:11 am. According to the department of geological survey, the earthquake’s epicenter was offshore, 20 km west of Paphos, at ...

Police on Tuesday night in a coordinated operation in Paphos, cracked down on ten people found gambling. According to police spokesperson, Michalis Nikolaou, between the hours of 5.30 and 6.30pm the ...

A 42-year-old man was taken into custody on Tuesday night in Paphos for assault with grievous bodily harm and threats. According to the police statement the alleged perpetrator, who had ...

Limassol police at dawn on Wednesday arrested a 44-year-old man for illegal possession of large quantities of duty-free cigarettes and petrol. According to a police announcement, the suspect’s car ...

The Japanese government has requested insures to take on additional risks to continue providing marine war insurance for liquefied natural gas (LNG) shippers in Russian waters, a senior official at ...

On Wednesday the weather will be mostly clear with increased cloud cover at intervals. Winds will blow mainly south-westerly to westerly, weak to moderate, up to 4 Beaufort. The sea will ...

Israel’s banking regulator on Sunday approved a conditional licence and control permit to a group of entrepreneurs to establish a new online bank, the second addition to the highly ...

Vietnam’s central bank said on Tuesday it was making efforts to shore up foreign exchange reserves by buying up more US dollars, after it was forced to sell a ...

SoftBank-backed Paytm (PAYT.NS) said on Wednesday that going ahead there will be no more cash burn in the business and that the Indian digital payments firm was far ahead ...

Some 1,300 people will be hired in the police force and the fire department during the course of 2023, raising the government payroll. According to an earlier briefing to parliament by Justice ...

Minister Yiannis Karousos is promising significant improvements in the public transport sphere in the coming year with more and better roads and smart technology, according to an interview published on ...

A Belgian appeals court decided on Tuesday to keep Niccolo Figa-Talamanca, an Italian suspect in a European Parliament corruption scandal, in detention after prosecutors objected to a decision to release ...

The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices, according to the House’s administration arm, mimicking a law soon to go ...

Chelsea returned to winning ways as they scored early to ensure a 2-0 home triumph over Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday in their first Premier League victory since mid-October. ...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal case over the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange has been reassigned to a judge recently known for handling defamation lawsuits against former U.S. President ...

‘Mayoral’ elections in the north were overwhelmingly won by opposition parties, indicating Ankara’s losing touch with what Turkish Cypriots want in their daily lives, analysts said on Tuesday. The ...

Just before the year ends, Limassol’s bars and live music venues offer some groovy entertainment to keep the festive spirit going. More than just Christmas carols and tunes, however, ...

Russia retaliated on Tuesday against a price cap on its oil imposed by Western countries, while its forces were involved in heavy fighting around the bombed-out ghost town of Bakhmut ...

Global Restructuring Review (GRR) has released its 2022 guide to the world’s leading law firms for cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, with Elias Neocleous & Co LLC included on the ...

Three-quarters of Cypriots are unsatisfied with the justice system, while many retain reservations about the impartiality of judges, a new survey has shown. Conducted from December 9 to 14 by IMR and ...

Turkish Cypriot publisher and writer Sener Levent, editor-in-chief of newspaper Avrupa, has filed a lawsuit against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for alleged violation of his ...

Deputy prison director Athena Demetriou took on the role of acting director of the central prison as of Tuesday, Justice Minister Stephie Dracou said. She said that Demetriou would continue ...