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Authorities on Wednesday warned vulnerable groups to take precautions because of high concentrations of dust in the atmosphere, the third such warning issued in as many days. The public, and ...

Pushing our linear economy toward a circular economy By Roberto Sciffo Imagine you are 28 years young, female, born inland in the UK, but you have been passionate about sailing ever ...

A 54-year-old man was arrested after several thousand packages of duty-free tobacco were found in his properties, police said early on Wednesday. The man was arrested after officers discovered 2.462 packs ...

Slovakia’s hospitals are in a critical situation dealing with a surge in coronavirus infections and the government will approve measures on Thursday to limit access to services for unvaccinated ...

As Congress looks to advance its $1.75 trillion spending package this week, wealthy individuals are already planning ways to avoid paying for it. Lawmakers are expected to vote on Democrats’ social ...

Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada’s largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port ...

India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air pollution, according to an order from the federal ...

A planned pan-European payments network backed by 22 banks to compete with US duo Mastercard and Visa appealed on Tuesday for public money, saying its private backers were not prepared to ...

Cyprus Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios said that the current level of tourist arrivals has been deemed satisfactory. Tourist arrivals between January and October of this year amount to 45 ...

The digitisation of banking services is ‘not an option, but an urgent need’, the Hellenic Bank CEO Oliver Gatzke said on Monday at The Economist’s annual Cyprus Summit in ...

By Achilleas Demetriades There is no doubt that prices in general are rising, and we need to have a plan to tackle this price hike, which is soaring. This analysis ...

A new neonatal ICU is to be created in addition to the full renovation of the existing one, to facilitate the work of medical professionals but also to allow parents ...

The collapse of talks at Crans Montana may have happened four-and-a-half years ago but it has suddenly become a major issue. It returned to public debate a few days ago ...

Wales held Belgium to a 1-1 draw to guarantee themselves runners-up spot behind the world number ones in World Cup qualifying Group E in Cardiff on Tuesday. Kieffer Moore cancelled ...

A boat with nine male migrants arrived in Cape Greco on Tuesday afternoon, with one of them arrested as an alleged people smuggler. The boat was spotted around eight nautical ...

An 86-year-old great-grandmother was crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Tuesday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to honour women who endured the horrors of the Nazi genocide. Ten contestants – ...

President Nicos Anastasiades asserted on Tuesday that those attacking him over his handling of the peace process are in reality attacking the Greek Cypriots, pointing out that a recently leaked ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday that the issue of the Parthenon sculptures, which Greece wants returned from London to Athens, was one ...

Britain’s defence minister Ben Wallace met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a visit to Kyiv on Tuesday, a show of support at a time when Ukraine and NATO countries ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced 386 new Covid-19 cases were recorded. No deaths were announced. The new cases were among 59,730 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.65 per cent. ...

Just before festive pop-up events, the Black Friday sales and the general buzz that the coming season brings, the Nicosia International Festival continues to fill the capital with unique performances. ...

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla on Tuesday visited the site on the river Jordan where Jesus is believed to have been baptised, at the start of the ...

The leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest has apologised to the UK’s Greek Cypriot community after the council granted permission to Turkish Cypriots to hoist the breakaway ...

Police on Tuesday confirmed they were investigating reports that a body was stolen from a cemetery near Anthoupolis in the Nicosia district. A spokesman told the Cyprus Mail that earlier ...