Archive May 2021

California will offer $116.5 million in cash and gift cards to residents who get Covid-19 vaccinations before June 15, the latest – and most lucrative – incentive by US states desperate to persuade laggards ...

Tunisian politicians and officials warn of an economic collapse if the government cannot agree a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan this summer, but political paralysis could scotch that effort. ...

Cyprus Small- to Medium-sized businesses must undergo a transformation in order to survive – they need to jettison past ways of doing business and adopt those that are right for today. ...

Turkey will extract oil from three newly discovered wells in the country’s Diyarbakir and Kirklareli provinces, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Thursday. “We have also found oil ...

Turkish Cypriot Ersin Tatar has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General laying out his side’s approach to the Cyprus issue and how he sees the process going ...

Although the government took away our liberties in a big rush, supposedly to protect public health, it is restoring these in instalments for no apparent reason. Is it afraid people ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced 75 new positives for coronavirus, for a positivity rate of 0.17 per cent, while the number of the hospitalised continue to drop. No new deaths occurred, ...

Turkey pushed Nato allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two ...

Paphos municipality has awarded a grant of €8,000 to a doctoral student of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus, it announced on Thursday. Maria Ktoris received ...

Tents have replaced some high-rises in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, where heavy Israeli air strikes left several families homeless and doubtful that rebuilding will start soon. Palestinians ...

The head of a Japanese doctors’ union said on Thursday that holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, with tens of thousands of people from around the world, could ...

By all accounts Bennifer – aka Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck – have rekindled their flame after having come close to wedding in the early Noughties. The Hollywood actors are apparently dating, ...

The outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 has been disastrous for the cruising industry and global tourism, with uncertainty still plaguing the fate of its main players even as we head into ...

The vaccination portal will reopen on Friday for 36–39-year-olds, the health ministry said on Thursday, announcing that almost 51 per cent of the population has received a jab. Members of the ...

The health ministry announced a total of 71 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Here to make the warm nights in the city more fun, a series of outdoor summer cinema evenings return! Film screenings under the night sky are back at two venues, ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday brushed aside allegations from his former chief aide that his failings had caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths from COVID-19, saying “some ...

In this Big Think video, we take a closer look at what it means to be a failure – a badge of either shame or honour, depending on our culture’s ...

Chelsea and Manchester City supporters have joined together to condemn what they describe as UEFA’s “greed” over the staging of the Champions League final in Porto. The BBC has ...

The ministry of health issued some clarifications on the upcoming measure relaxations that were announced earlier on Thursday. The new measures will see the curfew moved from midnight to 1am ...

By Victor When Turkey invaded and occupied a third of Cyprus in 1974 the international community condemned Turkey’s actions, but its strong words were not met with actions or results. ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country’s role in the Rwandan genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali on Thursday, seeking to reset relations ...

India scrapped local trials for “well-established” foreign coronavirus vaccines on Thursday as it tries to accelerate the vaccination rollout to counter the world’s worst surge in infections. India this ...