Archive 2021

The health minister is holding an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the spike in coronavirus cases and possible measures to contain it with his advisors, a spokesman said. The ...

Australia retained the Ashes with a thumping innings and 14-run win in the third test in Melbourne on Tuesday, with debutant paceman Scott Boland laying waste to England’s hapless ...

In 2020, 17 per cent of Cyprus enterprises reported that their online sales reached at least 1 per cent of their total turnover, according to new Eurostat figures published on Tuesday. This represents ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus recorded a daily record of Covid cases on Monday with 1,925 people testing positive. A new record for the number of tests done in one day ...

Polis Chrysochous police have arrested a 38-year-old man as they investigate a break-in of an office, theft, and possession of drugs. Paphos deputy police chief Michalis Ioannou told the Cyprus ...

Cyprus police reported six individuals and four establishments for violating measures aiming to contain the spread of the pandemic. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours up ...

Irene Gregoriou Pavlidi Chief of Staff, Bank of Cyprus ‘My aim is to promote gender diversity, both at the Bank and the society at large’ Irene is the Chief of ...

Eliza Livadiotou Chief Financial Officer, Bank of Cyprus ‘Through hard work we gain experience; it helps us discover many new things. This experience enables us to think smartly to solve ...

The US auto safety agency has stepped up its probe into engine fires that have plagued some Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) and Kia Motors Corp (000270.KS) vehicles for over six ...

Faced with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, France will further tighten COVID-19 measures, but there will be no curfew for New Year’s Eve and schools will reopen ...

The Israeli unit of drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA.TA) said on Sunday it was entering the medical cannabis market by signing an exclusive and mutual collaboration agreement with another ...

Workers at BNL, the Italian arm of French banking group BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), went on strike for the first time since the 1990s on Monday in protest at back ...

In a more typical time, burnout is an exception. In the era of COVID, it almost feels like the norm. According to Jennifer Moss, organizations should take a hard look ...

Around 130 Turkish Cypriots will be interviewed on Tuesday for jobs in the Republic under a recent deal between the main trade unions on both sides to help ease labour shortages, ...

Substitute Edinson Cavani scored in the second half to help Manchester United salvage a 1-1 draw at struggling Newcastle United in the Premier League on Monday after the home side ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that a record 1,925 had tested positive from 121,127 PCR and rapid tests, another record, which resulted in a positivity ...

Britain’s government will not introduce new COVID-19 restrictions for England before the end of 2021, its health minister Sajid Javid said on Monday. Partial figures reported by the government on ...

Greece on Monday announced further restrictions effective from Jan. 3-16 to contain a further upsurge in COVID-19 infections including the Omicron variant, targeting mainly night-time entertainment venues. As confirmed new ...

The 44-year-old, who was detained for six days in connection with a hit-and-run in which a 60-year-old woman died has been referred by the Paphos court for trial on February 3. ...

Rainfall in December reached 113 of normal levels, according to preliminary data published on Monday by the met office. According to the data, the average total amount of rainfall from December 1 ...

South Africans remembered anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu with cathedral bells, flowers and warm words on Monday, a day after he died in a Cape Town nursing home aged 90. Tutu, ...

The Bank of Cyprus Borrowers Association (Syprodat) on Monday called for an immediate reaction from the central bank and from parliament over plans by the commercial banks to hike their ...

An investigative journalist for the BBC’s Russian-language service in Moscow said in a video released on Monday that he had felt compelled to leave Russia for self-imposed exile in ...

U.S. airlines canceled about 800 more flights on Monday after nixing thousands of flights during the Christmas holiday weekend, as Omicron cases across the country rise, forcing crews to isolate ...