Archive 2021

Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating ...

The president on Friday hosted a meeting of party leaders and the House president who were briefed about the changes to the state budget whose original bill was rejected by ...

By Paul Lambis As the holiday season ends, festive feelings of love, joy, excitement, generosity and sentimental sharing quickly translate to guilt and regret. The copious amounts of food I ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday announced tougher measures and only two outings per day with permission through SMS. The curfew remains from 9.00 pm to 5.00 am. The new measures will ...

Preliminary approval has been given for a farmers’ market in Ayios Theodoros which will support producers and the tourism industry in Larnaca district, the women’s rural association of Larnaca ...

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou will announce the new, stricter measures against the further spread of coronavirus, on Friday after a cabinet meeting. The announcement is expected at around 1pm. A ...

A 30-year-old man who avoided a traffic check was later found with crystal meth, police said on Friday. The man was spotted early on Thursday driving at 81kh/h on ...

Israel tightened a national lockdown on Friday in a bid to curb a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising that all Israeli adults could ...

Global vaccinations are the only hope to rebuild tourism for the second half of 2021, the Famagusta branch of the Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) said on Friday. This year remains uncertain, “...

The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the European Commission said on Friday, in a move ...

British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday there were concerns that COVID-19 vaccines might not work properly against the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa. ...

Police in the north are investigating the deaths of a couple and their 14-year-old son who were found with gunshot wounds in their home in Lefkoniko, reports said on Friday. ...

You would think that this is no time to plan new artistic productions with theatres shut and a stricter lockdown just around the corner. Yet where there’s a will, ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides was on Friday morning due to brief leaders of political parties in Cyprus on the revised state budget for 2021 at a meeting under President Nicos Anastasiades ...

Police on Thursday arrested two men against whom European arrest warrants were pending. The first arrest concerns a 52-year-old man against whom an arrest warrant was issued by Greece and ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by ...

The share of electricity from renewable sources in Cyprus is one of the lowest in the EU, Eurostat reported on Friday. In 2019, it was 8 per cent in Malta and 10 per ...

Police booked 57 individuals for violating coronavirus decrees in the past 24 hours as a result of 7,818 checks. In Nicosia, officers carried out 2,612 inspections, in Limassol 2,555, in Larnaca 725, in Paphos 1,057, in Famagusta 698 ...

Britain should not submit to the European Union’s financial services rules just to get better access to the bloc’s market after Brexit, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey ...

Located at the confluence of Yangtze and Jialing rivers, Raffles City Chongqing is designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, who also designed Singapore’s famous Marina Bay. A design highlight ...

Fasten your seatbelt… in this video, GoPro Awards recipient Nazar Dorosh performs a heart-stopping aerobatic dance in the skies over Ukraine, as captured on the GoPro FPV drone, flown by ...

The touching story of GG… an orphaned and injured baby kangaroo, or ‘joey’, rescued from South Australian bushfires, who loses all anxiety after being nurtured by his new family. View ...

In this video, we meet Javier Goyeneche, founder of Ecoalf, a sustainable fashion brand that develops fabrics from recycled materials. In partnership with specialist manufacturers around the world, the brand ...