Archive September 2021

As part of its participation in the European Mobility Week and on the occasion of September “Leukemia Awareness Month”, Cyprus Public Transport invited the residents of Nicosia and Larnaca to ...

More than €200 million in EU funds has been allocated to improve the competitiveness of Cypriot businesses between 2021 and 2027, but the full absorption of this amount could be endangered by a ...

Europa Donna’s annual pink silhouettes march that aims to raise awareness on breast cancer will be replaced this year with a torch race to be streamed live in a ...

Cyprus on Thursday will be on red alert for forest fires, the forestry department said on Wednesday, calling on the public to be particularly careful, as strong winds up to ...

Liverpool will go ahead with the planned expansion of the Anfield Road Stand, with an official ground-breaking ceremony scheduled for next week, the Premier League side said on Wednesday. The ...

German health authorities are planning new rules under which unvaccinated workers would not receive compensation for lost pay if coronavirus measures forced them to quarantine, according to a draft decision ...

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman took no questions in a brief news conference on Wednesday and instead read a statement saying the under-performing club were in a period of transition and ...

Ukrainian authorities are looking into whether foreign special services were involved in an assassination attempt against presidential aide Serhiy Shefir, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky said on Wednesday. A volley of ...

By Richard Dickenson Between the Olympics and the Paralympics most of what little summer UK was awarded got mopped up in the wall-to-wall TV coverage thereof. Never once, however, in ...

South Korea’s antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google 207 billion won ($176.64 million) for blocking customised versions of its Android operating system (OS), in the U.S. ...

Admissions at Famagusta general hospital are falling but the average age of patients is rising, the facility’s scientific director said on Wednesday as walk-in centres opened for third doses. “...

The animal police unit may be small, but it is a good start for Cyprus, officer in charge Vyronas Vyronos said on Wednesday in response to the Green party’s ...

Cyprus ranks third for car ownership in the EU with 645 cars per thousand inhabitants, according to a Eurostat study. The highest number of cars per thousand inhabitants in 2019 was recorded ...

How do you bounce back into this fast-changing life right now? Can you move through challenges with the lightness of being and in what way do you restore stamina, enthusiasm ...

Promising therapies against Covid-19 are to be the central message during EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides’ visit to Cyprus this week. She has said that vaccinations are not the only ...

Although the video streaming service Netflix is available in over 190 countries, many markets are still underdeveloped. To further push acceptance in African countries, the streaming giant recently announced a free ...

Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd play a married couple struggling with unimaginable grief in The Starling. Keiran Southern hears more. As film loglines go, Netflix drama The Starling certainly ...

A six-day remand was issued by the Paphos district court on Wednesday against two men involving a case of forged ID. The two men, aged 20 and 26, tried to travel to ...

With relations between Cyprus and Saudi Arabia at an all time high, September 23 will mark Saudi National Day, which celebrates the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades’ meeting with the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America Elpidoforos, was called off because the cleric attended the opening of the ‘Turkish House’ in New York, media reports ...

Britain warned the food industry on Wednesday that carbon dioxide prices would rise sharply after offering tens of millions of dollars of state support to a fertiliser company to avert ...

By Daria Sito-Sucic Wild horses galloping across rugged mountains in western Bosnia are an ever-bigger tourist attraction, but need protection from local farmers who see them as pests, activists say. ...

Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day on Wednesday, blanketing houses and fields, a day after people with homes on ...

In a well-known Turkish Cypriot writer from a Paphos village, AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY finds a rebel intent on adventure whose unforgiving analysis of the island’s political situation is driven by ...