Archive May 2021

By Nacho Doce Spanish police said they cleared 9,000 revellers from Barcelona’s city centre streets and the nearby beach on Sunday to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the first full weekend ...

The more people getting vaccinated the lower the number of cases and hospitalisations, the health ministry said on Sunday citing the latest epidemiological data. Analysing data between April 26 and May 14, ...

In this video, we head for beautiful Jaffna, the vibrant chief city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Closer to southern India than to Colombo, the region was settled ...

Andreas Avgousti, 68, died on Sunday after he was crushed by his car that fell off a 15-metre cliff on the Mandria to Koilani road in the Limassol district. According to ...

In this video, we learn the story behind Girls That Scuba – a sisterhood of diving enthusiasts and marine conservation ambassadors from all over the world. Five years ago, celebrating the ...

Ocean currents are our planet’s circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we’re changing earth in ways that threaten critical ocean currents ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Stephen Farrell Israeli air strikes killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and militants fired rockets into Israel as hostilities ...

One man wants to find a cave to live in. Another wants the jab ASAP. Divergent views on the newly introduced SafePass By Antigoni Pitta May 10 marked the much-anticipated lifting ...

Stark choices in the face of regional geopolitics and international fatigue with the Cyprus problem By Christos P Panayiotides For reasons that I have not been able to fully understand, ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Sunday inaugurated the Larnaca producers’ market in Ayios Theodoros. The minister said the market was created on the initiative of the Women’s Association of ...

A 45-year-old man was fined €3,000 after caught smuggling diesel fuel from the north, police said on Sunday. According to the police, during a coordinated operation in a farm area in ...

Five businesses and 38 people were booked during the past 24 hours for violations of the measures against the spread of coronavirus. In Nicosia, a bar was fined for serving more people ...

Cruise operator Royal Caribbean is cancelling a new line that had been scheduled to run from Israel to Greece and Cyprus from next month, citing regional security concerns. The sailings ...

By William James Ministers will make a decision on June 14 about whether or not to proceed with the final phase of lockdown easing in England, health minister Matt Hancock said ...

The classic ransom is a suitcase full of unmarked U.S. dollar bills. Bitcoin’s role in the Colonial Pipeline hack shows the global currency of crime has a rival. ...

Britain’s financial watchdog on Friday proposed new “consumer duty” rules for financial services to protect people from scams and mis-selling, which have tarnished the industry for decades. Retail investors ...

Ireland’s data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook’s transatlantic data transfers, the High Court ruled on Friday, raising the prospect of a ...

A car was destroyed on Saturday night at the Larnaca airport and two others were damaged after fire erupted on the first vehicle. All cars were parked at the airport’...

Hollywood actor Henry Cavill has no time for the haters. The ‘Justice League’ star has slammed critics in a lengthy Instagram post, assuring fans that he’s head over heels ...

Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Back in September 2020, when we reviewed the negative performance of the once-rapidly growing Turkish economy, we felt that the country’s economic policy had reached ...

We may not all have the chance to head out of town over the weekend, but thanks to local creators like travel vlogger and blogger Tia Savva, we can take ...

New parties have mushroomed but probably lack the breadth, vision or resources to succeed at the polls By George Psyllides A record 658 candidates submitted their candidacies this week ahead of ...

We have the parliamentary elections in a fortnight’s time to thank for the lifting of more pandemic-related restrictions from Monday. The decision came out of the blue – like the ...

A RECORD 658 candidates from 15 parties/groupings will be contesting the 56 parliamentary seats up for grabs in the elections in a fortnight. Of these, I would guess that some 500, maybe more, ...