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The Council of Ministers will meet on Friday and will discuss the possibility of new measures to stem the surge in coronavirus cases, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Wednesday. ...

Evidence has begun to emerge that COVID-19 had been circulating around the world earlier than the pathogen was first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. In mid-June, a ...

Six businesses and 43 individuals were reported in the last 24 hours for failing to abide by coronavirus measures, police said on Wednesday. Two business owners in the capital received fines of €8,000 ...

Announced by father-daughter acting duo Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones on Tuesday, this year’s batch of Emmy nominees featured frontrunners, snubs and surprises across categories. ‘The Crown’ ...

China expects to see the number of 5G users exceed 560 million by 2023, according to a recent guideline. By then, 5G network is expected to be used by over 40 percent of ...

A tenacious family’s dogged pursuit of the truth could provide answers to a soldier’s 2005 death By Achilleas Demetriades The Nicolaou case is a very sad one indeed. Not ...

The European Commission on Monday issued a further €10 billion to support Europe’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis and its consequences, the Commission said in a statement. It is the ...

Cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp, global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said on Tuesday, in the wake of the biggest anti-government protests ...

Universal Hydrogen, a US firm that aims to do for clean fuel what Nespresso did for coffee, is poised to announce preliminary hydrogen deals with airlines including Icelandair, Airbus, and ...

According to this year’s recently released Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index Report, Singapore, London and Shanghai are the top three global shipping hubs in 2021, followed by Hong Kong, ...

As recently as 2019, a solid six per cent of Cypriots between the ages of 16 and 74 took part in an online learning programme. This percentage put Cyprus on par with such ...

The European Commission (EC) plans to impose a carbon surcharge on products entering the EU from third countries, through a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), likely to be phased in ...

One Nicosia-based private vet specialises in treating wild animals, but his main obsession is birds As a boy, Constantinos Antoniou watched and counted birds while spending the summers at his ...

In the last few months, the authorities have been toying with the idea of placing 30kph speed limit in the towns to improve the safety of pedestrians. Road bumps have ...

Asked how to disentangle oneself from the ‘knots’ of life, yogi and mystic Sadhguru responds that the entanglements themselves are illusory. After all, how can there be entanglements when the ...

Owners of recreation centres on Tuesday threatened to stage nationwide protests unless the government amends a decree that sees business owners checking that customers and staff have a SafePass. After ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell social media companies on Tuesday to do more to tackle online abuse, condemning racist comments made against England soccer players as coming from “...

The government’s draft legislation to replace the current Infectious Diseases Law, on which the health minister’s decrees have been based for the various measures taken relating to the ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced that two people died of Covid-19, while daily recorded coronavirus cases reached 1,081. The deaths concerned two men. The first, aged 86, passed away at Larnaca ...

– Italy on Tuesday banned cruise liners from Venice lagoon to defend its ecosystem and heritage, moving to end years of hesitation and putting the demands of residents and culture bodies ...

The government on Tuesday submitted to parliament three bills aiming to open up the electricity market in Cyprus in line with EU regulations. Together, the three bills set out the ...

Whether travelling abroad this summer or staying put, there is probably nothing more relaxing and stunning than Paphos’ deep blue sea. Fully wanting to relish some of the island’s ...

In this video, Janek Rubes, co-host from the Czech HONEST GUIDE YouTube travel channel, takes us on an adventurous summer bike ride along South Bohemia’s lush Vltava Trail. The ...

Members of the parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics and migration agreed on Tuesday to discuss ways of tackling the low birth rate in Cyprus. Committee chair Elam MP ...