Archive 2021

Paphos police arrested three people on Tuesday who allegedly assaulted employees at the social welfare office and one officer after complaining over delayed payment of benefits. The incident occurred around 11.30...

The Turkish government is soon expected to present to parliament an additional budget for next year, two officials said, because a sharp lira sell-off has strained the existing budget with ...

A total of 23 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Police said Tuesday they arrested a 44-year-old man in connection with the double murder of two Russian women in the district of Limassol in November. The suspect is being questioned, ...

Oil prices dipped towards $74 a barrel on Tuesday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that the new Omicron coronavirus variant was set to dent the global demand recovery while ...

Three suspects were on Tuesday referred to trial before the Nicosia criminal court accused of belonging to a human trafficking ring following the testimony of an 18-year-old woman. The young ...

Syarhei Tsikhanouski, the husband of Belarus’s opposition leader, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in jail for organising mass unrest and inciting social hatred, the official Belta news agency ...

HSBC (HSBA.L), Europe’s leading banker to corporate Asia, laid out its long-awaited policy on financing thermal coal on Tuesday, and said it expected all its clients to have ...

Main opposition Akel accused the government of being authoritarian after it transpired Tuesday that the president would veto a recent law passed by opposition parties to cut VAT on electricity ...

Christmas can be a stressful time. Take your mind off the festivities and partake in the sounds of silence with a trend that is growing around the world suggests ELENI ...

Local environmental NGOs were among more than 150 organisations that on Tuesday called on the European Commission to include the restoration of at least 15 per cent of land and sea area ...

Rain fell in various areas on Tuesday with the heaviest seen in Limassol, where roads and fields were flooded. Earlier, police had warned of hail and fog in the Episkopi ...

As of Wednesday, the vaccinations portal will be open for booster jab appointments for people who have completed their vaccination regimen five months and two weeks ago, the health ministry ...

Parents keeping their primary school children away from class in protest at the latest round of Covid-19 restrictions were on Tuesday urged to “think again” amid indications they could face ...

Latsia municipal theatre was vandalised overnight with slogans declaring “death to traitors” and calling for enosis (union with Greece). The incident drew condemnation from the Pancyprian Association of Democratic Resistance ...

Malta is set to become the first European country to allow limited cultivation and possession of cannabis for personal use, with parliamentarians due to approve the new law later on ...

A 53-year-old Larnaca doctor suspected of issuing fake coronavirus vaccination certificates was referred on Tuesday for trial before the Larnaca criminal court. The trial is set to start on January 18. ...

The Larnaca general hospital has prepared another 28 beds for Covid patients after seeing an uptick in admissions in the past few days, state services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday. After ...

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid -19 vaccine appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of ...

Game and fauna service officers rescued two mouflons in the buffer zone after their horns became entangled. According to a social media post, UNFICYP officers spotted the two male mouflons ...

In a small lab in California’s Silicon Valley, Martin Janousek and Stu Aaron are making whiskey. There are no oak barrels stacked floor to ceiling. In fact, there’s ...

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton said on his team radio, “This has been manipulated, man” after the Briton was passed by Max Verstappen on the final lap of Sunday’s controversial season-ending ...

Police are warning drivers to be particularly careful because of adverse weather conditions on the Paphos-Limassol highway, near Episkopi. In an announcement, police said that visibility is limited because of ...

The Premier League has announced 42 new coronavirus cases among club players and staff, the highest weekly figure recorded since testing figures began being circulated in May last year. Only a ...