Archive 2021

Brazilian senators investigating the handling of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak have dropped a recommendation from their draft report that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with genocide and homicide, instead ...

Clickbait is not my usual type of show. I generally don’t care who dunnit. But the title served its purpose and I clicked on it and with nothing else ...

A total of 21 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 current overcrowding at the Nicosia central prisons requires the introduction of electronic tags, MPs at the legal affairs committee heard on Wednesday. According to committee chair, Nicos Tornaritis, who ...

France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema went on trial in absentia on Wednesday, charged with complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a ...

Reigning NBA champions the Milwaukee Bucks started the new season as they finished the last with a dominant 127-104 win over the Brooklyn Nets. The home side celebrated their first ...

British lawmakers have asked the Financial Conduct Authority why it took five years to prosecute NatWest (NWG.L) for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds ($551.28 million), after ...

The appointment of a UN Secretary-General’s envoy for Cyprus was not on the agenda of the meetings with British foreign office senior official Ajay Sharma on Monday and Tuesday ...

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually ...

Lionel Messi has scored three goals for Paris St Germain, all of them in the Champions League, and he has Kylian Mbappe to thank for the lot. Mbappe, who scored ...

A total of 114,000 thousand bullets and 50,000 hunting cartridges were stolen from a container of a licensed seller and importer in Limassol, police said on Wednesday. The theft reported by the 64...

German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) and British peer easyJet (EZJ.L) on Wednesday gained backing from Europe’s second top court for their acquisitions of insolvent German carrier Air Berlin’...

Queen Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, decided on Wednesday to rest for the next few days on advice from doctors and cancelled a planned visit to Northern Ireland, Buckingham ...

By Richard Dickenson I live in a large village-cum-small town where a lost dog is front page news. Having had a home there for almost 60 years I have never heard ...

Queues have formed at gas stations in the north after two companies, K-Pet and AlPet announced they would stop selling fuel as of Wednesday, reports said. The two companies announced ...

Bitcoin hovered below record levels on Wednesday, the day after the first US bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) began trading, a development that market participants say is likely to drive ...

Steve Bruce has left his position as Newcastle United manager by mutual consent, the Premier League team said in a statement on Wednesday, two weeks after they were taken over ...

After the heady excitement of the international matches last week, it was back to the domestic 2021 #BAOFINANCIAL T20 Cup for the local cricketers. Not that the competition was dull, as ...

Facebook Inc (FB.O), under fire from regulators and lawmakers over its business practices, is planning to rebrand itself with a new name that focuses on the metaverse, the Verge ...

A draft resolution by the European Parliament has called for an in-depth investigation by member states’ authorities to investigate politicians whose names appear in the Pandora papers, with the draft ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minster’ Ersan Saner, whose National Unity Party (UBP) withdrew from the ‘government’ last week, has had to resign, effective immediately after a compromising video started doing the ...

Floods unleashed by days of unseasonal heavy rain have wrecked crops, blocked roads and washed away bridges in northern India, killing at least 46 people, officials said on Wednesday, as they ...

The National Health Service is close to the edge of being overwhelmed in many parts of Britain and pressure is only going to increase as winter approaches, the head of ...

Four MPs are on the list of high-profile people who have not paid their traffic fines for years. According to daily Phileleftheros, no action has yet been taken against the ...