Pele to spend Christmas in hospital as cancer advances
Brazilian soccer legend Pele’s cancer has advanced and he requires care related to renal and cardiac dysfunction, according to a medical report, and his family said he would remain ...
Man arrested for theft in Paphos
A 31-year-old man was detained in Paphos in connection with a break-in and theft.
According to Paphos police chief Nicos Tsapis, officers found a number of watches, laptops and other ...
Urgent plea for blood donations
The health ministry on Thursday said it was in urgent need of type AB+ and B+ blood. Calling on the public to donate, it said they needed 120 vials of blood ...
Shanghai hospital readies for ‘tragic battle’ with Covid
A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people to get infected by the ...
Two Bankman-Fried associates plead guilty to fraud as FTX founder heads to U.S.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried left the Bahamas on a U.S.-bound flight to face fraud charges as federal prosecutors announced that two of his former associates had pleaded guilty ...
Invoking World War Two, Zelenskiy tells Congress aid is not charity
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that aid to Ukraine is an investment in democracy, not charity, and invoked American victory over the Nazis in a ...
€12 million scheme to improve internet access for households
The European Commission has approved a €12 million voucher scheme for Cyprus, aiming to help households gain access to faster internet.
According to the commission, the scheme will benefit approximately 82,000 households ...
Our View: No one would dare to rein in well-paid bank workers
Bank employees who left their jobs on the ultra-generous voluntary exit schemes have been complaining because the labour ministry has put their applications to collect unemployment benefit for six months ...
Prisons director quits after AG decision not to prosecute official
Anna Aristotelous and assistant Athena Demetriou on Wednesday evening announced their departure from their posts at the central prisons following the Attorney-General’s (AG) decision earlier in the day not ...
Zelenskiy, in Washington, seeks major U.S. aid against Russia’s invasion
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy began a dramatic visit to Washington on Wednesday, saying he would seek help from President Joe Biden in bolstering Kyiv’s defences against Russia’s devastating ...
Football fan banned for 4 months for violent incidents
Larnaca district court on Wednesday banned a 32-year-old man from sports venues for four months, for his involvement in violent incidents during a football match in September.
The incidents, which ...
9 artists participate in the Forms of Expression art exhibition
EVOHK artist-run space presents Forms of Expression, a group art exhibition, opening on Friday. At the Larnaca venue, the exhibition showcases the works of nine local artists from different disciplines, ...
Scheme for low-income pensioners aims to streamline application process
The new allowance scheme for low-income pensioners will simplify application and evaluation processes, resolving key time-consuming weaknesses in the existing system, deputy minister for social welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on ...
First foreign COVID vaccines head to China from Germany
erlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech 22UAy.DE COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first ...
Cypriot expedition to Antarctica’s highest peak
The Cypriot flag will be flown on Antarctica’s highest peak on Christmas day, in a historic first, the Olympic Committee said on Wednesday.
The expedition to Mount Vinson, which ...
Attorney-general says no evidence of corruption against Katsounotos
There has been no evidence to support corruption claims against the drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, after he was accused of colluding with a convict in the central prisons, the ...
Hearses queue at Beijing crematorium, even as China reports no new COVID deaths
Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the ...
Over €1 billion invested in Nicosia over the past decade
Over €1 billion has been spent in the past decade to improve Nicosia’s development and business drive, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday during a tour of the capital.
Between 2013 – 2022 ...
Planned breakwaters in Paphos will damage the marine habitat, say environmentalists
The plan to construct breakwaters in coastal tourist areas of Paphos and Yeroskipou will cause significant destruction of the south-west coast and marine environment, the federation of environmental organisations (Opok) ...
Russian protesters gather in front of Larnaca court, demand justice
Protesters with Russian flags gathered outside Larnaca district court on Wednesday which held the latest hearing against the 55-year-old Ukrainian woman who is facing charges of carrying a weapon to ...
Suresh and Kulwinder star in Cyprus cricket quarter finals
By Richard Boxall
Sri Lanka Lions and Punjab Lions have progressed through the quarter finals of the CCA BAOFinancial Autumn 2022 T20 Cup at the Ypsonas cricket ground.
Suresh Gedara’s 91 ...
Bye-bye to the year that broke bitcoin
Bitcoin staggered into 2022. It ends the year slumped in an alleyway, robbed of its cocktail of cheap money and leveraged bets, shunned by the establishment.
The preeminent cryptocurrency has lost 60 ...
Limassol municipality to provide care packages to those in need
Limassol municipality will provide 450 “packages of love” so that no family goes without the essentials for Christmas.
Limassol mayor Nikos Nikolaides said that in collaboration with the district’s food ...
US Capitol riot probe to release final report on assault by Trump backers
The congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol wraps up its work on Wednesday with a final report outlining its case that former President Donald Trump ...