Archive 2021

The Taliban government in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved. The ...

Police on Sunday said it was investigating a second attempt in a span of a few days to smuggle drugs to a prisoner held in Paphos. A 36-year-old man who ...

I am reverting on the subject of my article of last Sunday because it is an issue of the highest national importance. As I have already explained in the past, “...

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner launched a war of words against Britain’s Conservative Party, describing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet as “scum” for its views and accusing ...

President Nicos Anastasiades attended a dinner in New York, in honour of President of the US Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, Bob Menendez, hosted by former President of the Federation ...

A 59-year-old man was remanded at Larnaca district court for five days on Sunday in connection to a cannabis nursery found in his son’s home. According to a police ...

Over 6,600 people have received a Covid-19 booster jab in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Sunday. Across the country, 6,615 people received a booster shot or third jab. Mobile units offered ...

For the past 18 months we have been governed by a British Quarantine Law nearly one hundred years old. A change was long overdue, but how different will it be? The ...

Transport Minister Grant Shapps on Sunday called on Britons to behave normally when buying petrol, saying there was no shortage of fuel and the government was stepping in to ease ...

A 34-year-old woman was arrested in Nicosia for driving at twice the speed in a residential area, police said on Sunday. According to a press bulletin, the woman was driving ...

Hunting too close to homes is infuriating residents Residents in rural areas islandwide have been complaining over what they believe to be illegal hunting near their homes since the hunting ...

A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection to an arson attack and break-in at a chapel in Limassol which took place in July, police said on Sunday. Officers secured a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be meeting with the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, on Monday, in a bid to find common ground for the resumption of the ...

Police booked 18 citizens and six premises for violating coronavirus measures in the past 24 hours, police said on Sunday. A total of 3,165 checks were carried out across Cyprus, of which 963 were ...

Israeli forces killed at least four Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in a statement, ...

Germans went to the polls on Sunday in a national election too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel’...

Ratings agency Moody’s late on Friday raised Hungary’s sovereign credit rating to ‘Baa2’ from ‘Baa3’ on the economy’s strong rebound from the pandemic, which comes as a ...

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai in 2019 was warned that describing the company’s Incognito browsing mode as “private” was problematic, yet it stayed the course because he did not want ...

Much commotion but not much change as the most trusted politician in Germany steps down Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls ...

Britain’s decision to issue temporary visas for 5,000 foreign truck drivers is a short-term fix that will not solve an acute labour shortage that risks major disruption for retailers in ...

HSBC and Standard Chartered could face spillover damage to their profits and balance sheets from the debt crisis enveloping China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) even though the two banks say they ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said he would drill the importance of the North London derby into the heads of his players ahead of Sunday’s home Premier League game against ...

A woman’s plea after suffering smoke inhalation after saving 17 dogs from one of this week’s many fires The recent fires that have ravaged large swathes of the countryside ...

After the golden passports exposé there was an outcry against corruption. Citizens held demonstrations, newspapers wrote fiery editorials against sleaze and opposition parties demanded a clean-up. Corruption became the main ...