Archive 2021

The European Union-wide rollout of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine version for five- to 11-year-old children will begin Dec 13, one week earlier than previously planned, Germany’s health ministry ...

Cyprus and Italy are in consultation for training programmes in an effort to suppress illicit trafficking of antiquities and clandestine excavation, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos has said. Addressing an event ...

Over 500 police officers from multiple branches of the force will be deployed for Pope Francis’ two-day visit to Cyprus. A rapid response unit (MMAD) will be on duty for the ...

Electronic scanning of EUDCC certificates should not be carried out using personal cell phones, the commissioner for personal data protection has reiterated following reports that businesses are using the CovScan ...

Nicosia is anticipating a package of measures from the EU in the coming period that will be able to exert pressure on Turkey to review its practices and reverse its ...

With her vision 97 per cent impaired, stress follows Karolina Pelendritou every moment of her waking life, but she tells THEO PANAYIDES she has transformed what should be negative energy into ...

Foreign Ministry diplomats are holding a 24-hour strike Wednesday over the appointment of a non-diplomat to the position of ambassador, which they want reversed. Staff held a two-hour strike last ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus continues to reel under the pressure of increasing migrant arrivals, as the interior ministry said yesterday the figures are 70 per cent higher than the previous ...

Characteristic of the town, palm trees will be the centre of a new exhibition opening in Larnaca next week. Based on the archive of the Phivos Stavrides Foundation – Larnaca Archives, ...

The first snow fell on the highest mountains of Troodos on Wednesday morning, ushering in the winter season. Temperatures experienced a sharp drop on the first day of December, reaching ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japparov told the COP26 global climate summit this month that his Central Asian nation would achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 – but right now his government is urging citizens ...

Police on Wednesday said they arrested two more suspects in relation to Saturday’s violent attack at the U19 championship Apoel-Pafos FC match in Kouklia, in which the Paphos team’...

By Tasoula Hadjitofi As I explained in a previous article, Turkey has been trying to block the possible road to justice for Cyprus through the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

Paphos police are investigating after a 48-year-old man reported that several weapons and ammunition were stolen from his house among other valuable items. The man told police that unknown people ...

Two businesses and 18 individuals were booked for various violations of the coronavirus measures after 2,417 checks in the government-controlled areas, police said on Wednesday. About half of the checks, 1,205, were carried ...

The Bank of Cyprus has posted an after-tax profit of €19 million for the third quarter of 2021, with after-tax profit reaching €20 million for the first nine months of the year, it ...

Air travellers to the United States will face tougher Covid-19 testing rules, as several countries moved to seal-off their borders amid heightened uncertainty around the virulence of the Omicron variant ...

A 15-year-old boy opened fire in a Michigan high school on Tuesday with a semi-automatic pistol his father had purchased days earlier, killing three fellow students and wounding eight other ...

Hellenic Bank said Tuesday it has posted an after-tax profit of €21 million for the first nine months of 2021, as net interest income rose to €192.8 million. Non-interest income was €74.2 million. “Despite ...

Space Hellas, a technology solutions company operating in the fields of information technology, telecommunications and security, saw a consolidated turnover of €62.4 million during the first three quarters of 2021, reflecting a ...

Airline bosses voiced concern on Tuesday that travel restrictions linked to the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus risked blowing an industry recovery off course. The strongest warning ...

By Michele Kambas As day breaks over a tiny village in the north-west, some 20 people in an ancient Church observe a morning liturgy in an even more ancient language. For ...

The public protests by scores of parents against mandatory mask wearing by students aged six and over and rapid tests at all schools are, to say the least, way over ...

The young are navigating conflicting visions of a utopian techno-digital future and a dystopia in which the earth’s landscape has been degraded beyond repair By Alexis Karkotis This is ...