Archive 2021

Have we passed the peak of inflation fear? Investment insights from EFG Bank After one of the worst years for global economic growth in 2020, this year looks set to be ...

Transport ministry says Ayia Fyla traffic light system a success While public reaction to the island’s first smart traffic light system at the busy Ayia Fyla roundabout in Limassol ...

Tottenham Hotspur maintained their 100% start to the Premier League season with a 1-0 win over Watford on Sunday thanks to a somewhat fortuitous first-half goal from Son Heung-min. Son fired ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday without racing even a single lap as half-points were awarded for only the sixth time in Formula ...

Turkey cannot take the burden of a new migrant wave from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday after talks with his German counterpart, as concerns about a new ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the ...

Contrary to official statements that air quality was not hugely affected by the factory fire that burned overnight on Thursday in Yeri, a University of Cyprus (UCy) monitoring system found ...

The health ministry said on Sunday that two people died from Covid-19 and that 208 tested positive from 30,027 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.69 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday to honor members of the military killed in a suicide bomb attack during the evacuation of civilians ...

President Nicos Anastasiades, with his proposal that the two sides in Cyprus return to the 1960 constitutional arrangement, has “lost all credibility”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has said. In a ...

Capital markets and the insurance sector are becoming increasingly reluctant to fund and insure fossil fuels The oil and gas sector is undergoing permanent change brought about by a number ...

A man aged 57 has been arrested on suspicion of stealing three cows from a farm in Anarita in Paphos. The farmer reported the theft to police on Friday, saying that ...

Turkish Cypriots are seeing a doubling in the price of coffee and bread, reports from the north said on Sunday. Global fuel prices are currently contributing to an increase in ...

Free testing for certain groups will be at the following locations on Monday: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (10 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 1st Primary ...

Israel on Sunday began offering a COVID-19 booster shot to anyone who has been fully vaccinated, lowering the age of eligibility to 12. “Starting today, the third vaccine dose is open ...

The United States carried out a missile strike on Islamic State militants in Kabul on Sunday, U.S. officials said, as its forces at the capital’s airport worked to ...

Cyprus on Monday will be on red alert for forest fires, the forestry department said on Sunday, calling on the public to be particularly careful. In an announcement, it cautioned ...

The interior ministry has confirmed to the Sunday Mail that there is a new policy of increased and more detailed checks on Greek Cypriots at crossing points with the north. ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended Britain’s airlift from Kabul on Sunday following growing criticism that ministers had been “asleep on watch”, potentially leaving thousands of eligible Afghans behind in ...

By Constantinos Christofides When I was Rector at the University of Cyprus, I was visited by a foreign ambassador just as his posting was drawing to an end in 2018. As ...

Cypriot Paralympic medallist Carolina Pelendritou took third place for the second time in a repeat of the final of the 50m freestyle in Tokyo on Sunday breaking her previous record ...

Popular Turkish singer and trans woman, Bulent Ersoy, better known as ‘Diva’, and her 21-member entourage and musicians appeared in court on Sunday after trying to enter the north of ...

Mass jabs still touted as way to herd immunity despite rising infections among vaccinated By Theo Panayides Questions over the long-term outlook of the global Covid-19 vaccination programme have continued ...

Authorities in Cyprus and the Isle of Man are desperate to find family members of a British woman whose body has lain unclaimed in the morgue of Paphos hospital since ...