Archive 2021

France imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants forced President Emmanuel Macron to shift ...

By Dr. Charles Ellinas We urgently need a major rethink and change in direction. I have called repeatedly, and have been advocating through my articles in this newspaper, for the ...

The first high-level U.S.-China talks of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start on Thursday, with both sides leveling sharp rebukes of the others’ policies in ...

The majority of Turkish Cypriots favour a federal settlement in Cyprus as the strongest option while Turkish settlers prefer annexation by Ankara as the best option according to a study ...

Who would have thought that the Cyprus political party system would have produced an expert on Covid-19 vaccines? Edek seems to think it is qualified to issue verdicts on the ...

Manchester United reached the Europa League quarter-finals after a brilliantly-taken Paul Pogba goal earned them a 1-0 win at AC Milan to secure a 2-1 aggregate victory in their last-16 ...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon denied on Thursday that she had misled parliament over how she handled sexual misconduct claims against her predecessor, in a dispute that threatens her ...

Dinamo Zagreb sent Tottenham Hotspur crashing out of the Europa League after a stunning hat-trick by forward Mislav Orsic gave the Croatian champions a 3-2 aggregate win over the English ...

Twitter on Thursday suspended the account of the Cypriot nationalist party Elam, with a pro-migrant NGO welcoming the news. The party’s account – @elamcy2008 – was suspended on Thursday, Doros Polycarpou ...

Parliament on Thursday voted to scrap the Grains Commission, a semi-governmental entity that had been running up big deficits in recent years. Under another bill, the competences and staff of ...

Arsenal endured a nervous night as they lost 1-0 to Greek side Olympiakos on Thursday but progressed into the Europa League quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate. After a 3-1 victory in ...

President Joe Biden’s administration is weighing additional sanctions to block construction of the nearly completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany, potentially including the project’s parent company ...

France’s prime minister on Thursday imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and several other regions after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants forced President ...

In 2017 the now-defunct cooperative bank – run by the state at the time – signed a no-bid contract with asset management outfit Altamira by which the latter would manage the lender’s €7 ...

The health ministry announced 385 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday from 45,598 PCR and rapid tests yielding a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. Eighty-three of the new cases were in Limassol ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out in Britain were safe and he was due to have his ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides on Thursday visited the old site of Petrolina’s fuel facilities on the Larnaca-Dhekelia road which the company has begun dismantling, with a view to clearing ...

Following the opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which clarified that, after a thorough investigation, there was no link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the thromboembolic events reported by ...

The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra has revived its live concerts with a series of performances around the island titled Music from the Theatre of Cyprus, for a small number of audiences. ...

When you think of New York’s highest-end penthouses, one neighbourhood that has definitely earned a premier spot on the property market is… The Hudson Yards. “In a place where ...

The European Union has frozen plans to blacklist more senior executives at Turkey‘s state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), four diplomats said, in the clearest sign that a diplomatic offensive ...

The construction of the first private conventional power station by Power Energy Cyprus (PEC) is already underway and going according to schedule. The company has ordered three SGT-800 gas turbines ...

The European Commission would like to see member states and the European Parliament act quickly on its proposal for a digital green certificate covering vaccination, testing and recovery so that ...

By Katie Wright I’m no stranger to cold water. Whenever I holiday on the Isle of Wight or visit a friend who lives near the coast, no matter what ...