Archive 2021

Britain cautioned the Taliban on Tuesday that Afghanistan must never be used to launch terror attacks but added that the West must try to positively influence the insurgents who have ...

Five business owners and 46 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours, police said early on Tuesday. The fines resulted from 3,740 checks nationwide between 6am on Monday ...

A Congolese woman was arrested after she tried to depart the island using documents that did not belong to her, police said on Tuesday. The woman arrived at the Paphos ...

One man was remanded on Tuesday, while a woman was arrested in connection with an arson attack on a room of the Limassol district court where evidence was being kept. ...

Doctors in Haiti on Monday battled in makeshift tents to save the lives of hundreds of injured people, including young children and the elderly, outside hospitals overwhelmed by an earthquake ...

A white-colored, feminine-looking android was standing imperturbably inside a lab of Cairo’s Ain Shams University, with members of her development team and reports via a touch screen on her ...

The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday informed the public that, at its meeting held on the 5th April 2021, CySEC decided to impose an administrative ...

Germany plans to sell up to a quarter of its 20 per cent stake in Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) over the coming weeks, the German finance agency said on Monday, citing positive ...

Gold prices were steady on Tuesday, hovering near an over one-week peak, as support from safe haven demand amid rising Delta variant cases offset pressure from a firmer dollar. Markets ...

GlaxoSmithKline and its partner CureVac have seen promising test results for its “second-generation” vaccine which targets Covid-19 and variants in one shot. GSK and CureVac teamed up in February in ...

Not all residents following municipality’s pioneering pay-as-you throw scheme Thousands of residents in Aglandjia are not following the municipality’s pay-as-you-throw system, resulting in dozens of trash bags piling ...

Justice Minister, Stevi Drakou, acted as mediator between the police chief and the director of the Central Prisons on Monday after a dispute over a police search of a wing ...

A seven-day old baby is among three children hospitalised with coronavirus in Makario hospital, it emerged late on Monday. Doctors described the baby’s condition as good despite some fever. ...

The U.N. Security Council on Monday called for talks to create a new government in Afghanistan and an end to fighting and abuse after U.N. chief Antonio Guterres ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to host a virtual meeting of G7 leaders to tackle the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and has stepped up efforts to evacuate UK nationals ...

Police on Monday said they are investigating a series of burglaries reported in Limassol and Paphos over the August 15 holiday weekend. A 55-year-old woman reported that her house in Ayia ...

Cyprus has expressed readiness to assist in fighting the wildfires that rage in Israel. Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said in a post on Twitter that he had had a telephone ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the situation in Afghanistan by phone and agreed to continue talks with China, Pakistan and the ...

Ryanair airlines on Monday announced three new Cyprus routes for Germany and Poland for this winter. The new destinations concern Cologne and Memmingen in Germany, as well as Wroclaw in ...

Five deaths from coronavirus and 381 new cases were announced by the health ministry on Monday, out of 44,374 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.84. A 70-year-old woman died on ...

A first plane carrying Italian diplomats and their Afghan assistants arrived in Rome from Kabul on Monday as Prime Minister Mario Draghi vowed all Afghan citizens who assisted Italy’s ...

Israel is seeking international help to battle wildfires outside Jerusalem that have forced hundreds to evacuate and sent clouds of smoke billowing over the city, the foreign ministry said on ...

Thousands of civilians desperate to flee Afghanistan thronged Kabul airport on Monday after the Taliban seized the capital, prompting the U.S. military to suspend evacuations as the United States ...

Fires which broke out in Limassol and Nicosia on Monday were brought under control by the evening. Four helicopters and several fire engines were scrambled to extinguish a fire on ...