Archive 2021

Fusion Reactors CEO Christos Stavrou is unequivocal when he speaks about the potential value of fusion technology, both in terms of its use to the world, but also to Cyprus. “...

Property sales in Paphos district exceeded €2.5 billion in value over the past five years, a report from independent real estate asset management and advisory firm WiRE has revealed. The lion’...

The Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (Oeb) president Antonis Antoniou said during his end-year address that the unpredictability of the past two years has hurt both private businesses and the ...

UK shares were subdued on Thursday, after hitting 22-month highs in the previous session, as a surge of COVID-19 cases offset optimism around a “Santa Claus rally” in thin year-end ...

From Saturday, the grace period for people caught on traffic cameras will be over and fines will be issued for offenders. Police remind the public that, as of January 1, the ...

The despair of Turkish Cypriots, over the state of the north’s economy is understandable. They are suffering the devastating effects of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies that ...

Manchester United moved up to sixth in the Premier League thanks to a 3-1 over struggling Burnley at Old Trafford on Thursday to maintain their unbeaten start under interim manager ...

Heavy rains lashed down at the island on Thursday, particularly in the Nicosia district, as the fire department and police responded to dozens of calls for assistance on the roads ...

South Africa has lifted a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew on people’s movement with immediate effect, believing the country has passed the peak of its fourth COVID-19 wave driven ...

The fisheries department on Thursday urged people not to disturb seals after reports of sightings of members of the Monachus monachus population in the Ayia Napa area, as this could ...

Police are investigating a suspected case of sudden death in Limassol concerning a two-month-old baby boy. The mother found the baby unconscious in his crib on Thursday morning. The father ...

Authorities on Thursday announced one more death attributed to Covid-19, while testing yielded a new record of 3,851 positives, continuing the trend of the past few days. The latest fatality was ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people should avoid cruise travel regardless of vaccination status, following a jump in onboard COVID-19 cases, in a major blow ...

With January just around the corner, Pattihio Theatre has selected performances to open the New Year, with a musical performance and book presentation lifting the curtain next week. The Panikos ...

Around 70 per cent of Europeans lived in homes they owned in 2020 while the rest lived in rented housing, according to a Eurostat study published on Thursday. The numbers for Cyprus, 68.6 ...

JetBlue Airways Corp is reducing its schedule through Jan. 13 by about 1,280 flights due to a surge in crew members falling sick from the Omicron coronavirus variant, a spokesperson for the ...

British house prices rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.0 per cent in December from November, capping the biggest full-year rise in prices since 2006, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Thursday. Economists ...

The current account balance of Cyprus and its international investment position improved in the third quarter of 2021, according to provisional data released by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank ...

A British rail operator has been forced to suspend all direct services to the busy London Victoria train station until Jan. 10 after staff fell ill with COVID-19 and others had ...

The United Nations Security Council expects that Secretary General Antonio Guterres will submit by January 3, 2022 his reports on his Good Offices and Unficyp according to Resolution 2587 (2021) of July 29, 2021 on the ...

Testing and self-isolating protocols for those identified as close contacts have only changed for medical professionals, and not the public, the health ministry confirmed on Thursday. In addition to other ...

Tesla Inc is recalling more than 475,000 of its Model 3 and Model S electric cars to address rearview camera and trunk issues that increase the risk of crashing, the U.S. ...

The spectre of higher interest rates in the United States, slowing growth in China and a strong dollar have this year hammered emerging markets already reeling from the fallout of ...

Atletico Madrid have recorded five COVID-19 positives, including manager Diego Simeone, while Barcelona had three more cases among their players on Thursday, the LaLiga clubs said. Atleti said Simeone, captain ...