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Europe’s banks are stashing cash to pay bumper bonuses to top performers, amid a deal frenzy driven by pent up demand from the COVID-19 pandemic and rebounding bank profits. ...

The economic consequences of a sustained pandemic would be catastrophic. Ioannis Tirkides, chief economist at Bank of Cyprus* The emergence of a new variant, the Delta, and people’s hesitancy ...

But climate change not the sole driver of increasing temperatures and wildfires By Annette Chrysostomou The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot with huge fires raging in Turkey and Greece ...

By overturning a sham marriage decision this week, the Supreme Court proved itself independent of the executive in an area of law where the latter often rides roughshod over individual ...

No matter how hard the authorities try to reassure us they know what they are doing about controlling the pandemic, it is becoming increasingly clearer they do not. This situation ...

THE POLICE state has been showing its muscle. In the 24 hours up until Saturday morning, the cops had carried out 5,935 checks reporting 30 individuals and five businesses for violating the Covid ...

By Dr Yiorghos Leventis Often, the preoccupation with our national problem lacks international comparative analysis. It borders on navel gazing. In this article, I wish to highlight Ankara’s success ...

FA Cup winners Leicester City scored a late penalty to beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 in the Community Shield curtain-raiser to the season on Saturday. Second half substitute ...

Veteran Morne Steyn kicked over a last-gasp penalty to hand South Africa a narrow 19-16 victory over British and Irish Lions in the third and final test on Saturday to ...

Scores of people gathered outside the Presidential Palace in Nicosia on Saturday evening to protest the vaccinations of children. The protest, organised by Foni Laou in cooperation with other groups, ...

One death from coronavirus and 599 new positive cases were announced on Saturday out of 61,883 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.97 per cent. The death was a woman, aged 84, ...

A ship carrying 257 migrants docked in the Italian port of Trapani on Saturday almost a week after rescuing the people from international waters off Tunisia. Migrants onboard the vessel, mainly ...

The United States ended a drought and India seized their first ever gold medal in athletics at the Olympics on Saturday, while baseball-mad Japan won their maiden gold in the ...

The man alleged to have wounded 10 people in a knife attack on a Tokyo commuter train late on Friday told police he became incensed when he saw women who “looked ...

Brazil retained their Olympic football title with substitute Malcolm scoring an extra-time winner in a 2-1 victory over Spain in Saturday’s men’s gold medal game. After the game ...

Cyprus enjoyed a successful Tokyo Olympics, with the 15-strong athlete delegation giving some very good performances, despite returning home without a medal. The best-placed finishes were by Pavlos Kontides, who ...

Neeraj Chopra won the men’s javelin on Saturday with a best throw of 87.58 metres to claim an historic first Olympic athletics gold medal for India. The Czech Republic’s ...

By Stamos Prousalis and Costa Baltas Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight and hundreds of people were evacuated by ferry from the island of Evia east of the ...

An 82-year-old woman, a resident of Tala, Paphos, reported that she was tied up and robbed at her home on Friday evening with perpetrators taking jewellery and cash. The woman ...

A 14-year-old girl from Nicosia was caught driving in the Alaminos area, in the Larnaca district with her parents and sister as passengers, police said on Saturday. According to a ...

Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and one of the world’s richest men, has become a New Zealand resident, with immigration services saying he had applied under a category for ...

As of Saturday, people found positive for Covid-19, will have to fill out an electronic form if they want to get their release certificates when their quarantine period is completed, ...

Iran on Saturday rejected as psychological warfare accusations that it was behind a deadly attack on a tanker off Oman’s coast, and said Tehran sought to enhance the security ...

A 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton discovered in the mountains of southern Chile was determined to be the ancestor of the modern crocodile, the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences announced on Friday. ...