Archive June 2021

Prospects for recovering survivors from a Florida high-rise diminished with each passing hour on Saturday, two full days after the 12-story condominium mysteriously collapsed while many residents slept. Even so, ...

Cyprus funds grew 14 per cent in terms of assets under management in the first quarter of 2021, to €9.8 billion. We asked Andreas Yiasemides, president of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association, to ...

The Board of Hellenic Bank on Wednesday at its Annual General Meeting elected two new members, and re-elected all of its other 11 members. The two new members are both newly ...

Government advisers and experts are proposing various means of increasing vaccine uptake – with some saying that transparent discussions are the way forward while others have called for harsher restrictions on ...

President Anastasiades was satisfied with the statement on Turkey that was unanimously approved by the 27 member-states of the European Council, said government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos in a written announcement. The ...

A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020, video of which ...

By Steve Scherer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he has asked the pope to come to Canada to apologise for the Catholic Church’s role running residential schools ...

By Francisco Alvarado Families and friends of the 159 people missing after the collapse of a condo building in a Miami suburb were clinging to hope on Friday as rescue workers ...

Britain could face gaps on supermarket shelves this summer because of a shortage of more than 100,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers, caused by a combination of fallout from the COVID-19 ...

The health ministry on Friday announced no new deaths from Covid-19 but said another 169 people had tested positive from 42,660 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.40 per cent, slightly ...

By Kate Chappell and Ina Sotirova At a Rastafari farming community high up in the hills above Jamaica’s capital, dreadlocked locals gather at the temple to worship and celebrate ...

Α tribute to the jazz legend Charlie Parker will be staged by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with the help of another well-known, local musical ensemble. The concerts on June 30, July 1 and 2 ...

By Thomas Escritt The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut and several hundred would-be para-astronauts have already applied for the role, ...

Tourist industry stakeholders paint a grim picture of upcoming July following the UK’s announcement that Cyprus would remain in the amber category, effectively delaying the arrival of British holidaymakers ...

A two-state solution in Cyprus is a non-starter, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, according to President Nicos Anastasiades, who met with the UN chief on Friday in Brussels. Anastasiades met ...

Tempers flared at a vaccination centre in Larnaca on Friday over delays caused by the large number of people there. Police were called to the vaccination centre at the port ...

Aiming for cooperation in the Middle East and Europe, the first high level bilateral meeting took place between Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and the Jordanian deputy prime minister, Ayman ...

A local charity has designed an out of the box F*ck Covid T-shirt which became available for sale in their online store this month. The design has a Covid ...

Panasonic Corp (6752.T) sold its stake in electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) for about 400 billion yen ($3.61 billion) in the year ended March, a spokesperson for the Japanese company ...

Just 120 kilometres square, Nantucket may be served by the second busiest airport in the state but most people arrive by ferry. Because, at just over 50km from the Massachusetts mainland (...

The eurozone is recovering faster than earlier expected, but still needs continued fiscal and monetary support so that the pandemic does not leave scars, European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde ...

Australia’s competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook Inc (FB.O) refused a publisher’s request to negotiate a licensing deal, the regulator told Reuters, setting the ...

Despite a drop in usage across the board, the drugs market showed durability and adaptability during last year’s lockdown, with dealers finding new ways and tricks to supply their ...

Icelanders will no longer need to wear masks or keep a safe distance from other people as all COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted on Saturday, the country’s health minister ...