President Volodymyr Zelensky has routinely ended his nightly wartime addresses by announcing state awards for Ukraine’s soldiers. On Sunday, he honored a fighter who is perhaps the country’s smallest — a little dog named Patron....
One in three women (33%) in the EU has suffered physical or sexual violence, according to the President of the House of Representatives Annita Demetriou, stressing that these numbers are "shocking and troubling."...
The issue of euthanasia and the need for information and social dialogue in Cyprus were discussed on Monday at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights....
Local charities and participants in the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II next month in Cyprus have turned their backs on the concert following political controversy linked to EOKA, as more participants are now refusing to take part ahead of an election year...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his Victory Day speech before a military parade in Moscow's Red Square, defended his ongoing invasion of Ukraine as the "only right solution," without mentioning the neighboring country by name....
A proposal to lift safe pass checks will be submitted this coming Tuesday during the weekly Cabinet meeting. According to Health Minister, Michalis Hadjipantelas, experts will recommend the abolition of safe the safe pass since the numbers of Covid positive cases and hospitalizations are decreasing on a daily basis....
The Russian ambassador to Poland was doused in a red substance on Monday by people protesting against the war in Ukraine as he went to lay flowers at the Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw to mark the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany....
Bono, the frontman of the Irish rock group U2 and his bandmate the Edge performed a 40-minute concert in a subway station in Kyiv and praised Ukrainians fighting for their freedom from Russia....
The construction industry is suffering as the price hike of raw materials continues, with developers crushed under higher costs as they are deprived of Russian money....
Hermes Airports unveiled its Summer 2022 flight schedule to/from Larnaca and Pafos airports marking the return of various connections to and from Cyprus....
EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange reserves to cover the costs of rebuilding Ukraine after the war, the bloc’s top diplomat has said, as the west debates how to force Moscow to pay for some of the damage the conflict has caused....
A driver is facing charges for fleeing the scene of an accident after a video on social media showed a car turning left in front of a woman on an electric bicycle, with additional charges possibly including negligence...
Quite a few times I found myself receiving messages and having to pause and google search an acronym to understand its meaning. I’m sure I’m not alone, and it’s surely not just a Gen X symptom....
Eight years after the signing of a bilateral Arrangement between Cyprus and the UK, the SBA is today lifting restrictions on property development on 200 square kilometers of non-military areas within the bases....
Limassol police are seeking the public’s help in connection with a fatal accident over the weekend, when a young man was killed after his car crashed and flipped over on the highway...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will address his nation from Moscow during the country’s Victory Day celebrations against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, including Mariupol where the holiday was recently unbanned but resistance fighters still held out at a steelworks plant...
Cyprus' Justice Minister, Stephie Dracos, expressed on Friday her satisfaction with a constitutional amendment to allow the use of the English language by two new Courts that are expected to be created, the Commercial Court and the Maritime Court....
The Parliament of the European Union has given the green light to the Member States to keep the EU Digital COVID Certificate in place until June next year....
The cases underscore how difficult it is to stop the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant as China clings to its zero-COVID policy, perpetuating a cycle of lockdowns, as well as bafflement, anguish and anger....
The two flagship models from Mercedes-Benz, the S-Class and the all-electric EQS, will soon be able to be ordered with conditional self-driving tech in Germany. ...
Under the auspices of the Limassol Municipality and in conjunction with strategic partners from the private and public sector, the organizing team of the Limassol Book Fair announces the first annual book fair in Limassol. The event will be held on November 25-27, 2022 at the Carob Mills venue, in the historic medieval castle area of Limassol....
Picking a side is rarely an easy task. It means disappointing one side and committing to a particular course. It means putting aside tactics such as maintaining a policy of equal distances or prevarication....
Reacting to the prospect of Sweden and Finland joining NATO in the wake of the war in Ukraine, Moscow escalated its warnings by simulating a nuclear-tipped missile fired at the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
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Cypriot authorities plan to submit in June an official request to the European Commission for the implementation of a mortgage-to-rent scheme, aiming to address non-performing loans collateralized by primary residences and SME business premises with an estimated contractual value of €3 billion....
Sweden has logged one of the lowest pandemic death tolls in Europe despite its refusal to impose lockdowns, World Health Organization estimates suggest....
Almost three times as many people have died as a result of Covid-19 as official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far....
Illegal immigration and the war in Ukraine were the focus of a meeting held on Thursday between Minister of Interior Nicos Nouris and Chairman of the Czech Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, Ondřej Benešík, who was heading a delegation of Czech MPs and members of the Committee....
EY has been recognized by research and advisory firm, Verdantix, as a leader for environmental, social and governance (ESG) services and sustainability consulting services in its latest report, Green Quadrant: ESG & Sustainability Consulting 2022 (pdf)....
