Archive May 2021

Cypriot race driver Vladimiros Tziortzis will get his Nascar Whelen Euro Series campaign underway in Valencia on May 15-16. In a press conference this week, the driver, who is backed ...

The Philippines on Wednesday reported what it said were incursions into its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) by 287 maritime militia vessels from China, in a further sign of cracks reappearing in ...

Amazon on Wednesday won its fight against an EU order to pay about €250 million ($303 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg as Europe’s second highest court dealt a blow to ...

Economic activity in Cyprus contracted sharply in 2020, due to the Covid-19 crisis, though less than the EU average. The tourism sector has been severely affected, while the impact on domestic ...

Almost 660 people from 15 political parties, as well as eight independents, officially submitted their candidacies on Wednesday, competing for one of parliament’s 56 seats during the May 30 elections. According to the ...

In the first video of a two-part series, yogi and mystic Sadhguru turns our attention to the limitations posed to our inner progress by our biological, familial, societal and intellectual ...

Whenever Manchester United did not win the Premier League in the glory years of Alex Ferguson, their fans took comfort in teasing their rivals by saying the title was merely ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday announced an inquiry next year into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that is likely to focus on why the United Kingdom suffered Europe’...

Immunity acquired from vaccinations or after an infection is not permanent and the scientific community believes there should be at least one booster coronavirus jab, a member of the team ...

In this video, we view examples of extraordinarily beautiful ‘books of hours’ from the Rosenberg Collection. The book of hours was a Christian devotional book, popular in the Middle Ages, ...

Taliban insurgents captured a key district just outside the Afghan capital Kabul in central Wardak province, forcing government forces to retreat, security officials said on Tuesday. The seizure of Nerkh ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Richard Pine knowledgeably writes Greece Letter for the Irish Times. Earlier this year, examining their long years of war and discord, he ...

The Cyprus High Commission and the Cyprus Centre at the University of Westminster are holding a series of online lunchtime symposia themed on Covid-19 and its diverse impact on people ...

In this video, we learn how to take a standard wire basket and give it new life by transforming it into an attractive macramé equivalent. Macramé is a technique or ...

The EU’s priorities for cooperation with third countries should concentrate on the effective return of third country nationals, on combating smuggling and monitoring EU external borders, Interior Minister Nicos ...

The social insurance office on Athalassa Avenue will operate with reduced staff from Wednesday May 12 to Friday May 14 because of positive cases of coronavirus. To ensure service continues as normal, ...

In this video, Nisha from the Rainbow Plant Life YouTube channel playfully guides us to making the best vegan burritos… ever. Yes, you can definitely have them for breakfast, but ...

With Arsenal set to end the season without a major trophy and facing the possibilty of missing out on Europe for the first time in 25 years, manager Mikel Arteta said ...

Health officials on Wednesday paid tribute to nurses in honour of International Nurses Day, with President Nicos Anastasiades and Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou extending thanks on Twitter. May 12, Florence Nightingale’...

The World Health Organization said it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the ...

Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged Greece to end pushbacks of asylum-seekers on its borders, a practice that Athens denies carrying out. In a letter to Greek ministers ...

What opportunities are offered for quality and recognised distance learning in the personal space and in the free time of those interested, with a flexible pace of learning, and what ...

The 64 irregular migrants, including 21 children, who arrived in a large wooden boat at the fishing harbour area in Larnaca at around 3.50pm on Tuesday afternoon, were transferred to the Pournara ...

In light of the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the foreign ministry informed Cypriots in the area that they can contact its diplomatic services for any help they ...