Archive 2021

British climate change protesters on Friday temporarily blocked the Port of Dover, Europe’s busiest trucking port, and police arrested 39 people. About 40 activists from the environmental group Insulate Britain brought ...

An impromptu border camp that roiled U.S. politics was emptied of thousands of Haitian migrants by Friday, with most remaining in the United States for now and others expelled ...

About four per cent of Cypriots said they were affected by asthma in 2019, below the EU average of 5.7 per cent, a report by Eurostat showed on Friday. The EU average ...

Citing lack of progress in the case of two blind children who continue not to attend school, the Pancyprian Organisation for the Blind said on Friday that it would ask ...

British police said on Friday they had released under investigation a man held over the murder of a teacher in a London park last week that has provoked an outburst ...

Sea daffodils are in bloom on the beach in the fenced city of Famagusta, having sprouted up among the umbrellas and sunbeds that the authorities in the north have set ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday visited the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (Cing) with Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas, where she learned about the institute’s work and ...

For the first time in two decades, Eleftheria Square in Nicosia hosted the start of the Cyprus Rally on Friday evening but the usual razzmatazz was noticeably missing: due to ...

Intensifying volcanic explosions on the Spanish island of La Palma forced firefighters to retreat and authorities to evacuate three more towns on Friday, while airlines cancelled flights due to a ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s son and two members of his cabinet said on Friday that they had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing to four the number of close aides ...

The health ministry announced 109 new cases of Covid-19 and no deaths on Friday. As there were no deaths, the total death toll remains at 550, of whom 350 were men and 200 women. ...

Cyprus aims to see electric cars make up at least one quarter of all newly registered vehicles per year by 2030, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said at the informal meeting of ...

The summer performing arts festival at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation may be over yet the foundation is keeping the old town’s cultural scene alive with one more ...

The fire service is expected to be fully independent early next month after parliament approves a bill on employment terms, Justice Minister Stefi Drakou said on Friday. The minister was ...

President Nicos Anastasiades met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. In a written statement, the president said he had a “...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Friday underlined the importance of sports in schools during a visit to the Apostolos Markos Lyceum in Nicosia. Prodromou’s message came during European School ...

A sports day fundraiser organised by the Cyprus association of cancer patients and friends (Pasykaf) at Amiantos village this weekend will help promote local nature and traditional foods. Run for ...

Anthony Joshua has vowed to “deliver” at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night after weighing in more than a stone heavier than Oleksandr Usyk on the eve of their world ...

Kenya has banned a documentary about a gay Kenyan man’s struggle to be accepted by his family and country, saying it was blasphemous and an affront to the constitution. ...

Defence ministry delegations from Cyprus and the US met in Nicosia on Friday in the framework of the first Defence and Security Cooperation Dialogue between the countries. A statement released ...

More parallel events are coming up as part of the retrospective exhibition Past-forward: Stavros Economou Unarchived at SPEL State Gallery in Nicosia. This Saturday, a cementography workshop and documentary screening ...

The minister of agriculture welcomed progress made in the village of Arakapas on Friday to protect the hillsides in the event of rain after a large fire hit the area ...

A total of 51 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Saturday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

Welcome to the true tropical paradise, a place in which no building may be taller than a coconut palm! Dotted across 1,960,027 square kilometres of azure waters, the Cook Islands comprises 15 ...