Archive 2021

Within the framework of its corporate responsibility and on the occasion of World Food Day, Lidl Cyprus successfully organised its second Lidl Wellness Camp, held under the auspices of the ...

Britain gave France 48 hours on Monday to back down in a fishing row that threatens to spiral into a wider trade dispute between two of Europe’s biggest economies or ...

In today’s episode, importers and manufacturers are warning that while some price increases have so far been kept from the consumer, they cannot remain so, and the full impact ...

A 35-year-old man who was arrested for drug possession in the early morning hours on Monday is suspected of being involved in several theft cases in Limassol and Larnaca according ...

Two months ago, we wrote of our disagreement with the plan of the Limassol municipality to undertake an extensive housing development project in collaboration with the land development corporation (a ...

Police Monday booked 24 individuals and four businesses after 3,256 checks for breaches of coronavirus measures. Most checks, 1,605, were carried out in Nicosia where two establishments and 12 people were fined, while seven ...

Rain fell on Bicar Icli’s fields in southeastern Turkey for the first time in eight months last week, but he and other farmers are already counting the cost of ...

The Pancyprian Robotex Robotics Competition made its return earlier this month following two years of cancellations due to the pandemic and its resulting restrictions. Organised by the Cyprus Computer Society (...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him over the cancellation of a submarine building contract in September, and indicated more efforts were required to ...

A Houthi ballistic missile attack on a mosque and a religious school killed and injured 29 civilians, including women and children, in the Yemeni province of Marib, the country’s information ...

Two trains collided at Fisherton Tunnel in the southwestern English city of Salisbury on Sunday, injuring a number of people, police said, declaring the crash a major incident. “A number ...

British businesses gained a small amount of momentum and grew at an above-average pace in the three months to the end of October, despite widespread disruption to supply chains, the ...

Saudi Arabian state oil producer Aramco (2222.SE) said on Sunday its third-quarter net profit more than doubled, boosted by higher crude oil prices and volumes sold, beating analysts’ forecasts. The ...

The German labour union Verdi on Sunday called on employees to strike at seven different Amazon locations in an ongoing pay dispute. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request ...

West Ham United’s Declan Rice scored a fine goal from distance as the rampant Londoners breezed past Aston Villa 4-1 in their Premier League clash at Villa Park on ...

The health ministry on Sunday announced there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 and that 112 people had tested positive for the virus, a positivity rate of 0.29 per cent from 38,554 ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The European Parliament, with 578 votes in favour, 28 against and 79 abstentions, adopted a resolution, on October 21, in which it: “…13. Deplores the fact that a number of politicians, including ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling coalition will stay in power but his party suffered steep losses in an election on Sunday, exit polls showed, weakening him just weeks ...

A concentration camp in Polemi once housed 400 Eoka suspects in the final days of their campaign As one of Europe’s foremost tourist destinations, Cyprus prefers to focus on its ...

By Aid to the Church in Need Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) helps Christians who are persecuted by violence, oppressed by terror, or are suffering outright discrimination and ...

Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement on Sunday that urges “meaningful and effective” action to limit global warming but offers few concrete commitments. The ...

The interior ministry denied on Sunday a damning report published by daily Politis which pointed directly at Interior Minister Nicos Nouris for overstepping boundaries in practises described as akin to ...

Britain and France clashed again over a post-Brexit fishing row on Sunday, with London calling on Paris to withdraw its threats and rejecting assertions there had been any agreement to ...

When the gas discoveries were first made, the prevailing economic and political conditions were substantially different I assume that you have all heard about the EU’s plans to create ...