Archive 2021

By Dr. Charles Ellinas What has become abundantly clear over the past year is the EU’s determination to drive a fast transition to cleaner energy. Not only it has ...

Two thousand AstraZeneca vaccines will be delivered to Turkish Cypriot health authorities on Thursday, according to a spokesman. The spokesman said Turkish Cypriots have already received 4,500 PfizerBiontec jabs in January ...

Education minister, Prodromos Prodromou, said after a meeting with the teaching unions that he hoped talks on evaluating the performance of public-school teachers would begin soon. How soon he could ...

Premier League leaders Manchester City turned on the style as they moved 10 points clear at the top with a ruthless 3-1 win at Everton on Wednesday. City’s 17th straight ...

Goals from Mehdi Taremi and Moussa Marega earned Porto a deserved 2-1 win over Juventus in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 clash on Wednesday, with Federico Chiesa’...

Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland continued his prolific run in the Champions League by scoring twice as his side came from behind to earn a 3-2 win at Sevilla in ...

Police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and sound bombs at two protests in Madrid and Barcelona on Wednesday, each attended by thousands, the day after a rapper was arrested on ...

Ashley Barnes struck a 52nd-minute equaliser as Burnley frustrated Fulham’s hopes of back-to-back Premier League wins in a 1-1 draw at Turf Moor on Wednesday. Fulham are 18th in ...

Russia’s justice minister on Wednesday dismissed as “unlawful” a European Court of Human Rights ruling demanding the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and accused the court of meddling ...

Nicosia municipality on Wednesday invited tenders for a makeover of the old GSP stadium that will enhance efforts to upgrade the historical centre. The proposed project in the heart of ...

Pfizer has not yet delivered to the European Union about 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were due in December, EU officials said, leaving it about one-third short of the supplies ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said Wednesday he would be tabling a two-state solution as a new idea during the planned informal five-party summit, whose date and venue have not ...

Provocative and polarising US talk radio luminary Rush Limbaugh, a leading voice on the American political right since the 1980s who boosted, and was honoured by, former President Donald Trump, ...

The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than $1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency, affecting companies from banks to ...

Health authorities on Wednesday announced the death of two men from Covid-19 and the detection of 121 new infections from 25,414 tests, a positivity rate of 0.48 per cent. Since the start of ...

Six weeks after taking over at Paris St Germain, coach Mauricio Pochettino laid down a marker at the Ligue 1 club by masterminding a resounding 4-1 win at Barcelona in their ...

Britain’s Captain Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers battling the coronavirus, received online abuse in the weeks before he ...

Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka have long moved on from their tempestuous 2018 U.S. Open title match but that will do nothing to dampen the suspense ahead of their blockbuster ...

All Premier League fixtures will continue to be available on live television in the United Kingdom until fans are allowed to return to stadiums, England’s top flight league announced ...

The health ministry announced that 54 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and the obligatory weekly testing of employees. Self-employed ...

In this video, yogi and mystic Sadhguru, in conversation with integrative medicine and personal transformation pioneer Deepak Chopra, discusses the need to address climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic by ...

The danger of a third Covid-19 wave is real, according to Petros Karayiannis, professor of microbiology and molecular virology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. Karayiannis, who is also ...

Alecos Constantinides, Cyprus’ longest-serving newspaper columnist, died on Tuesday night aged 91, after a very brief illness. His death was not Covid related. His very last column for Alithia newspaper, for ...

Lidl Cyprus has raised €100,000 for the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society and, for the first time, has also pledged support for the Arodafnousa Palliative Care Centre’s Adopt-a-Room programme. From November 30, 2020 until ...