Archive 2021

Oil prices soared on Monday to their highest in about 13 months as fears of heightened tensions in the Middle East prompted fresh buying, while hopes that a U.S. stimulus ...

Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94 per cent drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’...

Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday with tales of psychological torture and intimidation. The ship’s captain ...

A hacking campaign that used a US tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft of US government agencies is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ...

US study shows classrooms not a hotbed for Covid transmissions By Antigoni Pitta With students of all ages having had almost a year of fragmented schooling, parents and experts are ...

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang marked his return to Arsenal’s starting line-up with his first ever Premier League hat-trick in his side’s 4-2 victory over Leeds United on Sunday. The Gabon ...

Bitcoin hit a new record high and approached $50,000 on Sunday, building on its record rally as Wall Street and Main Street increasingly adopt the world’s biggest cryptocurrency Bitcoin recently ...

As the second week of the Australian Open begins, fans eagerly wait to see if the two Grand Slam winners left in the men’s draw can reach the summit ...

As of April 1, Israelis vaccinated with a vaccine approved by the European Medicine Association (EMA) will not be required to take a PCR test to travel to Cyprus and will ...

One death and 123 new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The health ministry said the death was of a man, 87 with underlying health conditions. The total number of deaths from ...

By Costas Themistocleous A lot of ink will be used before the new five-party conference is held in a month or two. Perhaps even more than was used in all ...

New law could help in fight against corruption and ineptitude in government By Theo Panayides The saga of Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, who complained to the police about a Twitter ...

The health ministry has announced the rapid testing sites for Monday. The sites are for the testing of the wider population but also the obligatory weekly testing of people back ...

The Savoy Hotel is a luxury hotel on the Strand in central London. It was built by impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan operas, ...

A total of 44,429 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 until February 13, the health ministry said on Sunday. In total, 29,592 people have had the first dose of the vaccine, while 14,837 have ...

But scars of the pandemic will hang over the world for many years to come By Charles Ellinas The Atlantic Council (AC) held its annual Global Energy Forum at Abu ...

Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats ...

This video offers us pre-Covid highlights of the enigmatic southeast African country of Mozambique. With its long, dune-fringed beaches and turquoise waters, Mozambique’s eastern coastline along the Indian Ocean ...

Nobody is in favour of a formal partition of Cyprus but the risks are real By Christos P Panayiotides Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ brief visit to Cyprus has unquestionably ...

By William James British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed a “significant milestone” on Sunday as data showed 15 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations had been delivered, fuelling calls for the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old brewery that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry said. The site ...

By Elias Hazou While by no means a death blow to Cyprus’ aspirations to export natural gas to Egypt, a recent investment decision by companies in nearby Israel to expand ...

By Vorasit Satienlerk Fifty-nine couples in Thailand got married while riding elephants on Sunday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in a province ...

In a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of Valentine’s Day, New Yorker cartoonist Suerynn Lee demonstrates the way she draws bad dates, and explains how her improv background taught her to create ...