Archive 2021

A powerful earthquake killed at least 42 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia‘s island of Sulawesi on Friday, trapping several under rubble and unleashing dozens of aftershocks as authorities warned ...

French carmaker Renault pledged to slim down and focus more on technology as its new CEO laid out plans to revive a business hammered by management turmoil and the Covid-19 ...

Microsoft Corp, health insurer Cigna Corp and the Mayo Clinic are part of a coalition pushing for digital records of people who get vaccinated against Covid-19. A key aim of ...

Airbnb Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky on Thursday predicted travel would permanently change due to the pandemic with people seeking out thousands of smaller cities and spending more time visiting ...

US President-elect Joe Biden’s proposal to pour $1.9 trillion into a hobbled economy could lay the foundation for a surge in jobs and spending that many economists say is needed ...

Health officials have assured MPs that efforts are being made to secure greater vaccine doses for the coronavirus, which until now have been limited to a trickle. Olga Kalakouta, acting ...

Under pressure from the political parties, to address the issue of setting a minimum wage in exchange for their support for the 2021 budget, the government came up with a declaration ...

Arsenal’s recent resurgence in the Premier League was checked by Crystal Palace as they were held to a dull 0-0 draw on Thursday. Mikel Arteta’s side were bidding ...

A group representing major U.S. airlines on Thursday backed President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to mandate face coverings for all air passengers, but asked him to give them flexibility ...

The committee of inquiry looking into the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme will finally open to the media as of next week, it was announced on Thursday. In a statement, the committee ...

The House on Thursday rejected the referral back to it of a law it had passed in December regulating the profession of photographers. President Nicos Anastasiades had refused to sign ...

Social media platform Twitter lifted restrictions briefly imposed on the official account promoting the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the website showed on Thursday. The account was restricted for around ...

Israel’s energy minister held a video conference call with his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan and Bahrain for the first time on Thursday, according to a ...

Three more elderly people have died of Covid-19, while 241 positives were detected in island-wide testing, authorities said Thursday. The latest deceased are all men: a 79-year-old with underlying conditions who ...

An additional 420 appointments for coronavirus vaccinations for next week will be opened up on Friday January 15, the health ministry has announced. This concerns the vaccination centre in Lakatamia, located on ...

The health ministry has issued the testing schedule for Friday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol “Grigori Afxentiou” Square – Dioikitirio 10 a.m.-4: 30 p.m. Event hall next to ...

Rainfall on the first two weeks of January was only 6 per cent the average for this time of year, the met service said on Thursday. Between January 1 and the morning ...

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The first batch of Chinese Sinovac’s vaccines arrived in the north early on Thursday from Turkey. An ambulance plane carrying 20,000 doses arrived in the north at around 5am. The ...

Despite the drop recently in coronavirus cases, the positivity rate remains high, thus it is imperative to continue observing the measures in place, head of the advisory committee on coronavirus ...

Players who flout COVID-19 health and safety protocols by shaking hands or hugging after goals are scored should be shown a yellow card, the head of a parliamentary committee suggested ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday called on newspaper director and journalist Andreas Paraschos to substantiate a report that he made €300m from the citizenship by investment scheme and took the ...

MPs on Thursday said they were not satisfied with explanations from members of the government’s epidemiological team as to why they recommended closing malls before Christmas but decided to ...

For a year expected to mark a turning point for pandemic-stricken European airlines, 2021 is off to a rough start. A resurgence of COVID-19 lockdowns has killed off a fragile bookings ...