Archive 2021

A total of 22 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

The government is to seek the European Commission’s permission to suspend asylum applications from those entering the country illegally. The government made the announcement on Wednesday after an emergency ...

Adjusting to the thin air of Guadalajara has been a struggle for players in the leadup to the WTA Finals, with the high-altitude conditions making it difficult for them to ...

The transport ministry on Wednesday announced that it had received 159 applications for bicycles for the disabled and 7,515 for road and mountain bikes as the portal for the scheme reopened following ...

It was the break-up that eluded a generation of General Electric Co (GE.N) insiders. When Larry Culp, the first GE chief executive not to rise from within its ranks, ...

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili visited the mediaeval Georgian Orthodox monastery in Gialia, Paphos, on Wednesday as part of her official trip to Cyprus. Zourabichvili met with President Nicos Anastasiades on ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) is launching new technology to expand its reach in the automotive industry, including a virtual driving assistant that can park a standard car and a system to ...

Increased pressure on public hospitals due to a continuous flow of patients with seasonal infections, Covid-19 and other cases is leading to 100 per cent occupancy rate in state hospitals, the ...

On Wednesday, the European Commission approved the eighth contract with a pharmaceutical company with a view to purchasing its potential vaccine against Covid-19. Valneva is a European biotechnology company developing ...

Cypriot guitarist Socrates Leptos and French flutist Virginie Bove are meeting on stage this month for a colourful musical journey in a rare concert combination. On November 21 at 6pm the ...

Cash-strapped China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) faced a Wednesday deadline for making an offshore bond payment, while a credit rating downgrade on another property firm added to mounting concerns about a ...

Alphamega Hypermarkets is offering over 1,000 broadly-consumed products at low prices daily, to meet the needs of a modern consumer looking for quality at a low price. As part of its “...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou There’s controversy in the UK about women on a night out whose drinks were ‘spiked’ or who were injected with drugs. ...

One in five women have reported unwanted physical attention while attending men’s football matches, a new survey has revealed. The Football Supporters’ Association’s Women at the Match survey, ...

Europe’s race to qualify automatically for next year’s World Cup in Qatar enters the final stages over the next few days. Here, the PA news agency picks out ...

Authorities were on high alert on Wednesday, with the fire service saying they had responded to 28 incidents by early evening, including fires caused by gale force winds, which lasted into ...

British retailer Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) on Wednesday beat forecasts for first-half profit and raised its full-year outlook, adding to evidence that its latest attempt at an elusive turnaround ...

The digital age has undoubtedly brought remarkable changes to our everyday routine on many levels. The way we work, the way we entertain ourselves, the way information is communicated, the ...

Cabinet has approved a request by the health ministry to grant people getting their booster shot a day off work, it was announced on Wednesday. This concerns members of the ...

A new group of irregular migrants arrived at Paphos port on Wednesday morning. The group consists of 61 migrants, including 11 women, 22 men and 28 children between two and 16, reportedly Syrian and Lebanese ...

By Maxim Shemetov, Tom Balmforth and Clare Baldwin In one of the planet’s coldest places, 130 km south of Russia’s Arctic coast, scientist Sergey Zimov can find no sign ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced the appointment of a new vaccination advisory committee to serve for the next three years. The committee’s job will be to advise the ...

Antiquities department staff staged a one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday to protest against plans which could see the division of responsibility on cultural heritage to the two constituent states in ...

Vandals spray painted nationalist and racist slogans on the walls of a technical school in Nicosia, it emerged on Wednesday. Staff and pupils of the First Technical School, which is ...