Archive 2021

The hope and/or fear that ‘aliens are among us’ had its heyday in the 1950s but is making a comeback By Gwynne Dyer The silly season has come early ...

Police on Sunday said they seized more than 60 counterfeit euro notes and arrested a 20-year-old man after receiving a complaint by a kiosk owner in Limassol he had been paid ...

In this video, we take a pre-Covid trip to beautiful Bangkok, the capital and most populous city of Thailand. Known in Thai as ‘Krung Thep Maha Nakhon’, or simply ‘Krung ...

June is developing into a crucial month for the East Med and its geopolitics involving Turkey, Greece and Cyprus By Charles Ellinas At a recent Senate hearing, US Secretary of ...

The health ministry announced 60 testing sites will operate on Monday. People need to present their ID, passport or driver’s licence. District Testing Sites Operating Hours Limassol (16 sites) “Grigori Axentiou” ...

Moscow’s mayor said on Sunday the city would give away free cars in a prize draw for residents who get the COVID-19 shot in an effort to speed up ...

By Barret Kupelian Last week saw the G7 agree on a set of ground-breaking reforms to the international tax system. This was met with some scepticism in Cyprus as well ...

A new exhibition in Nicosia allows visitors to take a trip down memory lane. Or for younger ones to learn about the recent history of the island exemplified by one ...

By Michel Rose and Michael Holden French President Emmanuel Macron stepped into the Brexit maelstrom on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit by sparring with British Prime Minister ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday unveiled a monument commemorating the 1826 ‘Battle of Ayia Napa’, linked with the Greek Revolution for independence from Ottoman rule and the only one to have ...

Infringements highlighted by the EU over sale of golden passports may not be solid in law By Alper Ali Riza The golden passports scandal is a misnomer. A passport is ...

This video weighs up the pros and cons of urban expansion into the sea. Other than the most famous example of land reclamation at the country level – the Netherlands – there ...

Group of Seven countries will provide 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses over the next year and work with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase the contribution over ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32, and a woman, 31, were arrested on Saturday after one kilogramme of cocaine was located in one of the men’s car and cannabis and fireworks in ...

Countries should also avoid giving the Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine to people over 60, the head of the EU drug regulator’s COVID-19 task force was quoted on Sunday as saying, amid ...

By Dylan Martinez U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife Jill will have tea with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle on Sunday at the end of the G7 summit ...

Police on Saturday evening caught a 15-year-old boy driving a car on the Larnaca to Famagusta motorway with three other minors, aged 14 to 16, as passengers. The teen driver was spotted ...

‘Sex and the City’ actress Sarah Jessica Parker officially confirmed production of the HBO reboot with a pic alongside co-stars Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. The three stars reunited this ...

Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) second-biggest shareholder on Sunday demanded the board chairman and three other directors immediately resign after an investigation found the company had colluded with the Japanese government ...

By Judith Garber June is internationally recognised as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) Pride month. This commemoration and celebration has its roots in American history, but is ...

One of the few certainties about the England lineup ahead of their Euro 2020 opener against Croatia on Sunday is that they will take the knee before kickoff. However, the formation, ...

Turkish sector representatives said there has been a growing interest in boat tours while the country’s yacht industry has seen a surge in sales and production during the Covid-19 ...

Novak Djokovic backed himself to recover from his epic French Open semi-final victory over Rafael Nadal as he turned his focus to Sunday’s clash with Stefanos Tsitsipas. While handing ...

Now that Elon Musk seems have finished tweeting about bitcoin, the overall movement that is pushing the cryptocurrency higher is taking hold again. Musk’s latest tweet showed “#Bitcoin” with ...