Archive 2021

Limassol police on Monday said they had arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a security guard at a nightclub last week. The incident was reported to the police ...

Financial assistance for those affected by large fires earlier this summer will start being dispensed from Monday, deputy government spokeswoman Niovi Parisinou said. Immediate assistance was deemed necessary for those ...

This year’s football nights involved many special flavours, goals and many surprises. As part of the biggest celebration of European football, Lidl Cyprus organised three separate evenings to share ...

Paphos is the seventh cheapest holiday destination in Europe for British travellers, according to the latest British Post Office Travel Money survey. The survey covered 16 destinations in Europe, 13 in the ...

Two vaccinated members of the Cyprus’ Olympic games delegation have tested positive for coronavirus, the head of the Cypriot delegation Andreas Theofylaktou said on Monday. The fact that two members ...

Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities of parliament, a move his foes labelled ...

Like many other things, our living situations are changing and this affects accommodation. Young people or couples, if able to buy, start off with the acquisition of a one or ...

Valve Corporation’s new Steam Deck handheld console promises to blend PC gaming with mobility and while initial reactions are positive but questions remain. What exactly is Steam Deck? Think ...

Police booked 39 individuals and six businesses in Limassol, Paphos and Famagusta in the 24 hours until 6am on Monday, after 4,004 nationwide checks for coronavirus measures violations. Twenty people, including a business ...

Bitcoin is a digital currency, released in 2009, as a revolutionary financial instrument that would solve the vulnerabilities of fiat currencies and the traditional banking systems. It is decentralized and designed ...

Kuwait plans to establish logistic cities to support local economy and attract foreign investment, Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) announced on Sunday. Sheikh Yousef Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, KPA Director-General, said that these ...

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus dethroned five-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky of the United States to win a thrilling women’s 400m freestyle final at the Tokyo Games on Monday. ...

Sales at Giorgio Armani jumped 34 per cent in the first half of 2021 as business in China and the United States helped the Italian fashion group bounce back, despite worries about ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff said on Sunday he fears the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany could soar to 100,000 a day in about two months unless ...

Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA’s first mission focusing on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and whether it may ...

Cryptocurrencies popped to the top of recent ranges on Monday as short sellers bailed out in the wake of a strong week and while traders hoped a handful of positive ...

Bitcoin has enabled individuals and businesses to freely transfer money across borders much faster and at lower costs than fiat currencies. It serves as a value storage and exchange medium, ...

In June 2021, the El Salvador parliament approved a new law allowing people to use cryptocurrency as legal tender for all kinds of goods and services, alongside its national currency, the ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday and that 727 more people had tested positive from 73,053 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1 per cent. The deaths ...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the justice ministry on Sunday to protest Covid restrictions and for the release of those arrested during the week in connection with an attack on ...

UNESCO added Madrid’s historic Paseo del Prado boulevard and Retiro Park to its list of world heritage sites on Sunday. The tree-lined Paseo del Prado, in the centre of ...

Ambassador Olympia Neocleous has become the first woman to be accredited as Permanent Representative of Cyprus since the establishment of the Permanent Mission of the Republic in Geneva in the 1970...

Ethiopia’s Amhara state on Sunday called on “all young people” to take up arms against Tigrayan fighters who are battling the federal government military and forces from all of ...

Pavlos Kontides finished in fourth place in the first and only race in the men’s sailing laser competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. The race was won by ...