Archive 2021

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that New York state cannot impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on healthcare workers without allowing their employers to consider religious exemption requests. U.S. ...

Great efforts are being undertaken to tackle illegal migration, MPs heard during Parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics and migration on Tuesday while concerns were also expressed over “the ...

Gabby Petito, the young woman who vanished on a road trip with her boyfriend and later turned up dead in Wyoming, was killed by strangulation, a local coroner said on ...

A biennial World Cup will not dilute the “magic” of the tournament as its frequency would have no bearing on its quality and prestige, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday briefed the ambassadors of EU member states accredited to Nicosia on Turkish provocations in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and the backtracking of the ...

Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that Moderna Inc had not met all of the agency’s criteria to support use of booster doses ...

Greece will continue to support Cyprus in its efforts to find a solution to the Cyprus problem and counter any attempt made by Turkey to create faits accomplis, as we ...

White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season. The ...

With October and November set to be busy months on the local cultural scene, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra has five concerts planned for this autumn, bringing more quality music to ...

No new deaths from Covid-19 were announced on Tuesday but 166 new positive cases were recorded, while 60 coronavirus patients are receiving treatment in hospital. Tuesday’s positives were identified from a ...

Turkish intelligence helped Iraq capture a senior Islamic State leader who had been hiding out in northwestern Syria, three security sources said on Tuesday, in an operation that points to ...

This year’s Oxi Day parades are set to go ahead following an exemption and approval by the health ministry, which set out guidelines for the celebrations – chiefly that a ...

Tennis players planning to compete in the Australian Open at Melbourne Park should get vaccinated for COVID-19 to give themselves the best chance of playing the Grand Slam, an Australian ...

The House labour committee asked the government on Tuesday to prepare legislation to regulate remote working in a bid to secure workers’ rights, which appear to have been affected during ...

British grocery prices increased 1.7 per cent in the four weeks to Oct. 3 year-on-year, market researcher Kantar said on Tuesday, adding to pressure on households already facing soaring energy bills. With ...

Many cricket enthusiasts are interested in learning how to forecast cricket matches. As a result, match prediction has been a popular pastime since the T20 competition began. Furthermore, this is ...

British employers increased their payrolls to a record high in September, shortly before the end of the government’s wage subsidies scheme, potentially encouraging the Bank of England’s progress ...

The community council of Kathikas, located in the Paphos district, and Terra Cypria, The Cyprus Conservation Foundation, have signed a cooperation agreement for the use of the Regional Multipurpose Cultural ...

By Jamie Freed and Rajesh Kumar Singh As major companies look at drastic ways to cut carbon emissions from corporate travel, airlines are bracing for a major hit to business-class ...

The Olympic Committee said on Tuesday it will correct irregularities and heed the observations of the audit service, which found overspending and conflict of interest, among others, in a probe ...

Britain’s Prince Charles says he shares the concerns of Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists that world leaders “just talk” about climate change and were not doing enough to ...

By Geert De Clercq France will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on Monday. ...

Limassol police were investigating two separate stabbing incidents on Tuesday with one person being treated in hospital in serious condition. Police said the first incident took place in a house ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci is among 42 people barred from entering Turkey, media in the north reported on Tuesday as the backlash continued after journalist Ali Kishmir was refused ...