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Sweden’s response to the spread of coronavirus was too slow and preparations to handle a pandemic were insufficient, a commission investigating the country’s response to COVID-19 said on ...

By Alexia Saleem This summer was really hot in Cyprus. I don’t ever remember it being this hot in the past. I actually found it unbearable, but let’s ...

The Rialto Theatre, positive in its assessment of the FlashArt@Rialtο results achieved during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, has diversified, developed and established the programme on an annual basis, updating ...

NatWest’s (NWG.L) profit tripled in the third quarter as Britain’s resurgent economy buoyed its finances, but its margins contracted in a sign of potentially tougher times ahead. ...

U.N. human rights experts on Friday called on Mali to crack down on hereditary slavery after a series of violent attacks against people born into servitude. Slavery was officially ...

The metaverse is here, in name if not in fact. Facebook (FB.O), the company, will henceforth be known as Meta, a new name that reflects co-founder and Chief Executive ...

Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis and representatives from C. Roushas Trading and Development Ltd signed contracts earlier this week for Phase 2.2 of a redevelopment project along the Nicosia walls with a budget ...

Christian Eriksen is not permitted to play in Italy this season as a result of the cardiac arrest he suffered at Euro 2020, his club Inter Milan said in a statement, ...

A total of €378m was allocated for projects that have been implemented or are being implemented in Paphos over the last six years, President Nicosia Anastasiades said on Friday. The ...

Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria’s doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected, and understand the fate that will befall ...

Those responsible for the disappearance of missing persons are also guilty of perpetuating the anguish of their families, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday on the Missing Persons Day marked ...

A 15-year-old has died in the north after spending months in intensive care with Covid, reports said on Friday. He is the youngest victim of the virus in the north ...

Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari (RACE.MI) on Thursday won its dispute with a German car design company after Europe’s top court agreed with its arguments that it ...

Crowd surfing will not be permitted at concerts in Ireland and nightclub goers must form a socially distanced queue to buy drinks, under new guidelines issued by the government for ...

Stroke is the second leading cause of death on the island, with 600 to 1,000 cases a year, according to the Cyprus stroke association. In a written announcement marking world stroke day ...

Rising temperatures and protracted heatwaves are considered by Cypriots as the most important weather phenomena of climate change that affect the region, a survey has found. On the other hand, ...

Cyprus is experiencing an uptick in positive infections after months of steady decline, as the two-week cumulative diagnosis rate of Covid-19 stands at 204.4 per 100,000. This is up on the national ...

Britain threatened on Friday to board French fishing boats and France stood by a plan to impose sanctions on British vessels in a deepening row over post-Brexit fishing rights. The ...

A new drama series based on the life of late Argentine footballer Diego Maradona promises to reveal little-known details about the turbulent life and times of the legendary player and ...

Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas made a shock exit from the Erste Bank Open as he was beaten by Frances Tiafoe in Vienna. The American fought back from 3-0 down in ...

A total 22 per cent of lesbian women experienced harassment within a year prior to 2019 in Cyprus, showed a Fundamental Rights Agency’s survey. The FRA’s second LGBTI survey, which ...

Typically, when you sit down at a theatre, you’re told to switch off your phone, put it on silent and bring your full attention to the stage. SRSLYyours Theatre ...

Is it a form of masochism? By Simon McCarthy-Jones Last month, more than 100 million people watched the gory Netflix show, Squid Game. Whether or not screen violence is bad for ...

By Neil Lancefield This was originally sent under embargo Archaeologists digging on the route of the HS2 high-speed railway have uncovered an “astounding” set of Roman sculptures. The discovery was ...