Archive June 2021

Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke is proving that age is just a number, and can’t wait to hit 100. In a new interview, the 95-year-old Hollywood legend spilled the secret ...

The criminal route for a sexual harassment case has been blocked, but other possible actions exist By Achilleas Demetriades The #MeToo Movement that had started off in the US also ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the Chinese Sinovac vaccine for use in people 18 years and older, in a two-dose schedule with a spacing of two to four weeks. The ...

The European Union is preparing sanctions on Belarus‘ national airline and around a dozen top Belarusian aviation officials, three diplomats said, a stop-gap measure before economic sanctions following the forced ...

Five people were fined in Limassol and Paphos for violating Covid measures in the last 24 hours, police said on Wednesday. The fines, which mainly concerned failure to wear a face ...

Drinking problems have become an incredibly common issue. Consequently, addiction treatment facilities and services, such as ARC addiction recovery service, are growing in popularity in many parts of the world. ...

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

The Turkish lira hit record lows against the euro and the dollar as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the press on Tuesday that interest rates must be cut. The ...

Brazil’s JBS SA told the U.S. government that a ransomware attack on the company that disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization ...

By Alexandros Charalambides Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in entrepreneurship activities in Cyprus with networking events, entrepreneurship competitions, startup accelerators and angel financings forming the ...

European air travellers are advised to allocate extra time at the airport due to the implementation of Covid-19 checks at airports, the Airports Council International Europe (ACI EUROPE) has said. ...

Despite further relaxations in force from Tuesday, Cyprus’ mask mandate remains in place amid growing impatience from the public, particularly regarding its use outdoors, and ambiguity from officials. Last week, ...

We know how the northern part of Nicosia has been affected by the closure of the Ledra Street checkpoint, but the southern part too has seen a significant reduction of ...

Last week the Cyprus Mail quizzed the major political parties on a variety of environmental issues including illegal bird-trapping, ahead of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. BirdLife Cyprus explains why ...

World number one Novak Djokovic kicked off his French Open campaign with a routine 6-2 6-4 6-2 win against American Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday in the first men’s match ...

Nicosia Municipality has signed a €1.8m agreement with the Electricity Authority to replace 7,300 street lights with smart LED technology, expected to reduce energy consumption by more than 65 per cent. Signed ...

Carlo Ancelotti returned to Real Madrid for a second spell as coach on Tuesday, re-joining the club from Everton, after agreeing a three-year deal at the Bernabeu. The Italian was ...

A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10...

Nationalist party Elam got the ball rolling on Tuesday for the wheeling-and-dealing over the election of the new House President, as a number of names were being floated for the ...

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed bilateral ties during a 25-minute phone call on Tuesday. According to CNA, security cooperation and the Cyprus problem ...

Rafa Nadal launched his bid for a record-extending 14th French Open title with a straight-sets win over young Australian Alexei Popyrin on Tuesday but it was not as routine as ...

The health ministry announced 58 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 0.13 per cent, while no new Covid-19 deaths were reported. There are currently 66 Covid-19 patients in hospital, 27 ...

Cyprus is expecting to be told soon of when the UNSG’s special representative Jane Holl Lute will return to the island. Lute visited Greece last week and was in ...

Britain recorded no new deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Tuesday. The last time Britain recorded no deaths was in March 2020, before the country had entered its ...