Outdoor yoga season is on
Grab your towel, your yoga mat and your sunglasses and head to the beach for one of the many outdoor yoga classes that are on this season. As summer arrives ...
Israel-Gaza fighting spills into second day with air strikes, rockets
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza and Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israeli cities on Saturday as fighting ran into a second day, ending more than a year ...
Taiwan says Chinese planes, ships carry out attack simulation exercise
By Yimou Lee
Chinese aircraft and warships practised on Saturday for an attack on Taiwan, island officials said, in retaliation for a visit there by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
Two more cases of monkeypox, vaccines arrive (Update 2)
Cyprus has detected two more cases of monkeypox, the health ministry said on Saturday, as the first batch of 1,260 vaccines arrived on the island.
It said two men aged 20 and 30 ...
Uniglo (GLO), Fantom (FTM) and Polygon (MATIC) are likely to become the biggest gainers for 2022
After eight months of steady downward price action, Bitcoin and the bulls have fought back. Bitcoin has pushed through the resistance of the 50-day moving average and turned it into ...
Chasing pack look to close gap on Premier League duopoly
For all the global appeal and excitement the Premier League generates, there is a clear danger that the dominance of Manchester City and Liverpool reaches a level of repetitiveness that ...
Cyprus Business Now
Nexters, an international game development company headquartered in Limassol, this week released its financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2022.
In addition, the company also announced changes to ...
‘HIO has brought Gesy to brink of collapse’
The finance ministry on Friday waded into a spat between the health insurance organisation (HIO) and the health ministry, accusing the Gesy operator of taking the health system to the ...
Our View: Education ministry should be asking smarter questions
Our View: Education ministry should be asking smarter questions
Representatives of two groups supporting the rights of children with disabilities on Monday walked out of an education ministry conference that ...
Amazon’s connected device cart grows with $1.7 billion deal for Roomba maker
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will acquire the maker of robot vacuum cleaner iRobot Corp (IRBT.O) in an all-cash deal for about $1.7 billion, in the latest push by the ...
Crypto lender Voyager Digital gets approval to return $270 million to customers
The US Bankruptcy Court in New York has given crypto firm Voyager Digital Holdings Inc the approval to return $270 million in customer cash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Own goal helps Arsenal win at Palace in Premier League opener
Arsenal battled to beat Crystal Palace 2-0 on Friday as the new Premier League season got underway, with Gabriel Martinelli scoring the first goal before home defender Marc Guehi turned ...
China halts military, climate dialogue with U.S. over Pelosi Taiwan trip
China announced on Friday it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theater-level military commanders and on climate change, in a furore over ...
U.S. readies new $1 billion Ukraine weapons package
The Biden administration’s next security assistance package for Ukraine is expected to be $1 billion, one of the largest so far, and include munitions for long-range weapons and armoured medical ...
‘Early signs’ monkeypox outbreak plateauing in UK, health authority says
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Friday there were “early signs” that the monkeypox outbreak is plateauing across the country and that its expansion has slowed.
“While the ...
Russia bans Western investors from selling banking, key energy stakes
Russia has banned investors from so-called unfriendly countries from selling shares in key energy projects and banks until the end of the year, stepping up pressure in the sanctions stand-off ...
Man accused of racist attack claims right to fair trial has been violated
A Greek Cypriot man who was recorded assaulting a Congolese woman holding her infant last month, on Friday claimed he should not be prosecuted due to a violation of his ...
As satellites and space junk proliferate, US to revise rules
With Earth’s orbit growing more crowded with satellites, a US government agency on Friday said it would begin revising decades-old rules on getting rid of space junk and on ...
Traffickers shipping drugs in containers caught in joint operation
Attempts by drug traffickers to import narcotic substances into Cyprus through containers arriving at the island’s ports, is a growing concern, according to police spokesman, Christos Andreou.
Meanwhile, a ...
Putin and Erdogan agree to boost cooperation, some rouble payments for gas
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Friday to boost cooperation in the transport, agriculture, finance and construction industries, they said in a joint statement after ...
Ukraine war making 40 mln people go hungry, Africa to bear brunt, says US
The United States’ ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Friday said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause 40 million people to become food insecure and that sub-Saharan Africa ...
US labour market defies recession fears as job growth surges in July
US job growth unexpectedly accelerated in July, lifting the level of employment above its pre-pandemic level and pouring cold water on fears the economy was in recession.
The Labor Department’...
Blast in Kabul, Afghanistan kills 8; Islamic State claims responsibility
The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for a deadly blast in a Shi’ite residential area in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the group said.
The Afghan ...
Palestinian militants fire rockets at Israel after Gaza air strikes
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Friday in response to Israeli airstrikes which killed at least 10 people, including a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic ...