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A total of 640 children received a Covid jab on Sunday as one centre at the State Fair in Nicosia was open only to them. The A centre was receiving only ...

Paris St Germain forward Lionel Messi and three other players have tested positive for COVID-19, the French Ligue 1 club said on Sunday. Argentina international Messi joined PSG from boyhood club ...

The pandemic in Cyprus is manageable, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Sunday, adding that there are three scenarios already set up in case it gets any worse. “At this ...

Children in secondary schools in England will be told to wear face coverings when they return after the Christmas holiday next week to tackle a surge in cases of the ...

A total of 53 testing sites will be operated around the island on Monday by the ministry of health to offer free rapid tests to those in eligible groups. These include ...

Numbers over the next 48 hours will be crucial to any further measures as the health minister will meet the government coronavirus advisory team on Tuesday and the Council of Ministers ...

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets toward the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday which exploded off the coast of Tel Aviv and prompted retaliatory strikes, Israel said. There was no ...

By Maayan Lubell A surge of Omicron infections could see Israel reaching herd immunity, the country’s top health official said on Sunday as daily cases continued to climb. The ...

A 28-year-old has been arrested in Paphos for using a false identity and circulating forged documents. According to Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, a man presented travel documents at Paphos ...

As of Tuesday all travellers arriving in Cyprus must have a negative PCR test result not older than 48 hours regardless of where they are coming from or their vaccination status, ...

The fire service was fighting a fire on Sunday morning that broke out at dawn in a building being used as a workshop for machines. Spokesman Andreas Kettis said in ...

China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) on Friday dialled back plans to repay investors in its wealth management products, in a move that highlights the deepening liquidity squeeze at the property developer ...

By Nqobile Dludla and Wendell Roelf A fire erupted at the South African parliament in Cape Town on Sunday, with media coverage showing flames coming from the roof of the ...

Chelsea have to be realistic about catching up with Premier League leaders Manchester City this season, manager Thomas Tuchel said, adding that the club’s personnel issues have contributed to ...

In the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Sunday, police carried out a total of 2,980 checks around the island, charging a total of 13 individuals and 11 businesses. In Limassol the owner ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) has offered its staff the option of working from home for the first two weeks of 2022, with a caveat that all employees are expected ...

By the end of the year a total of 69.6 per cent of the population had been fully vaccinated, the ministry of health announced on Sunday. The figure for the adult ...

For global financial markets, the second year of the COVID pandemic has been nearly as dramatic as the first. The stocks bulls have stayed firmly in charge, surging energy and ...

UK’s FTSE 100 ended 2021 with its best annual performance in five years on the back of gains in commodity-linked and industrial stocks although the index fell in Friday’s holiday-thinned ...

As the world shifts irrevocably and inexorably towards clean energy and net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry is finding itself under siege on multiple fronts By Dr Charles Ellinas ...

To welcome 2022, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra (CySO) has planned an exciting series of performances. In their first concert of the new year, the CySO will be joined by three French ...

The health ministry announced that there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 and that 2,332 people had tested positive from 38,977 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 5.98 per cent. ...

The bravery of one woman heralded a deluge of sexual harassment claims By Gina Agapiou Resilience is an important skill for journalists seeing as the newsroom can sometimes be a ...

Whether interviewing an ex-Eoka B leader or a Covid-19 government advisor, Theo Panayides often found himself skating around awkward topics 2021 was the year of taboo conversations. Questioning the relative severity ...