Archive 2021

Police fined 146 individuals and four businesses for flouting coronavirus protocols from Thursday until Friday. Of the 10,892 checks which were carried out 692 were conducted by traffic police and 87 by marine police. ...

Temperatures are set to drop sharply on Saturday, with snow expected to fall in the higher mountains but they will increase by Monday, the met office announced. On Friday, temperatures ...

The Turkish central bank’s net international reserves fell to its lowest level since 2003 at $10.68 billion as of April 2, from $12.79 billion a week earlier, data showed on Thursday. The exchange ...

Britain will confirm in early May whether it will allow international travel to resume from May 17 and which countries will fall into the red, amber or green categories in a ...

Foreign lenders including HSBC and Wells Fargo are cutting ties with Lebanon’s central bank, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, underlining the country’s international isolation as it ...

Cyprus professionals have mixed feelings about the proposal from the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to establish a global minimum corporate tax. “It’s impractical and makes no sense in ...

Invest Cyprus, a government agency tasked with promoting Cyprus as an attractive destination for doing business in a wide range of industries and market segments, has launched a new initiative ...

Food, clothing and footwear became more expensive in Cyprus during the coronavirus pandemic, while fuel and electricity prices dropped, statistics released on Thursday showed. According to infographics prepared by the ...

The EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, reportedly told a teleconference of health ministers, discussing the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine on Wednesday that “it is essential to follow a coordinated European approach.” ...

Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes secured a hard-fought 2-0 victory at Granada in the Europa League quarter-final first leg to put their side in the driving seat. ...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday accused Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan of humiliating European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week and said it is important to be ...

Parliament on Thursday amended a law allowing for civil lawsuits to be filed against former officers or executives of the now-defunct cooperative bank. By a unanimous vote, following a terse ...

Only people aged 59-60 will be eligible to book a slot for a Covid vaccination on Friday, 9 April, the health ministry has said. In a press release issued late Thursday ...

A professional soldier in the north had to attend his wedding party in Turkey virtually because he was unable to travel due to pandemic restrictions, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

A critical care doctor called as a prosecution witness in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial testified on Thursday that George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen caused by being ...

The government granted citizenships to 221 foreign investors without applying regulations passed by parliament in August 2020, MPs heard on Thursday. According to the auditor-general, between August 2020 and February 2021, the government granted 221 ...

To date two persons in Cyprus receiving vaccines for Covid have developed blood clots, neither fatal, an official said Thursday as the head of the scientific advisory team reiterated that ...

Hundreds of people rallied in front of Kyrgyzstan‘s interior ministry on Thursday to demand the resignation of its leadership for what they called police inaction over the murder of ...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 622 new cases of Covid–19 on Thursday after performing 47,547 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.31 per cent. The deaths concerned a woman ...

Paphos residents are enjoying an array of live music events as the Paphos Sessions, a series of Sunday performances, bring some of the island’s most acclaimed bands and duos ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepts the Czech Republic’s position on mandatory vaccinations for children, it said in a landmark ruling on Thursday that rebuffed parents’ complaints ...

Members of the bicommunal Cypriot Songs Association found an ingenious way to perform together again after a long hiatus due to the pandemic restrictions. The group, Σύνδεσμος Κυπριακού Τραγουδιού/Kıbrıs Havaları ...

State health service (Okypy) officials held a meeting with representatives of the state nurses’ union Pasyno on Thursday do dissuade them from staging a two-day strike beginning at 7am on ...

An open row erupted on Thursday between the ministries of education and health over contact tracing of positive coronavirus cases in schools, embarrassing the government and perplexing public opinion. The ...