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A less intrusive method of coronavirus nasal rapid tests will be used to test pupils of upper secondary schools (lyceums), the health ministry announced on Monday, only to be met ...

While a rural village in Kenya might not be the first place you’d expect to find electric motorcycles, internet service and thriving local businesses… now, a solar-powered mini-grid is ...

As entertainment establishments, like restaurants, bars and cafes, reopen, their operators should have certain factors in mind. Things are not as easy as they were before the pandemic and resulting ...

A man in possession of drugs and pistol cartridges arrested by police in Larnaca on Sunday afternoon was remanded in police custody for five days by a court on Monday. ...

A kiosk in Dromolaxia and a car parked next to it were extensively damaged by a fire which broke out in the early hours of Monday morning. According to police, ...

In the 24 hours until 6am on Monday police booked eight business owners and 171 other individuals for breaching coronavirus protocols, police said. A total of 13,032 checks were carried out between 6am ...

Chinese officials on Monday said Sweden’s H&M and other foreign companies should not to make rash moves or step into politics after the companies raised concerns about ...

Indonesian state oil company Pertamina said on Monday it has shut its Balongan oil refinery in West Java as it battles to control a massive fire that broke out overnight, ...

The trade union Verdi has called for workers at six Amazon sites in Germany to go on strike from Sunday evening for four days in the latest attempt to try ...

Bookings at American Airlines last week through aa.com and the American Airlines app were up 150 to 400 per cent compared with last year, and within a few points of 2019; bookings ...

A firm based in the United Arab Emirates will start commercial production of China’s Sinopharm vaccines in April, under a deal announced on Sunday. Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries PSC, based ...

Salvage teams freed the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, according to maritime services provider Inchcape, almost a week after the giant vessel ran aground in one of the world’...

A look at the country’s energy mix and policies indicates its East Med moves are about geopolitics By Charles Ellinas It has often been said that Turkey’s aggressive ...

France, Spain and England all enjoyed wins in World Cup qualifying on Sunday while Denmark smashed eight past Moldova. Italy and Germany are in action later on Sunday and will ...

Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton won the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday after an epic, knife-edge battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen over the ...

Two deaths and 326 new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The deaths were a 69-year-old woman and a man, 74, both with underlying conditions. The woman had received the first dose ...

The provision for autistic children in the state education system is far too patchy expert says By Bejay Browne With World Autism Awareness Week in Schools underway from Monday, autism ...

Os Damai (Enough!) group on Sunday called on politicians who criticise it to confront the truth instead of trying to conceal it. The umbrella group, that held a rally on ...

The scientists who argue that the epidemiological data undermine the extreme control measures still in place By Elias Hazou On the ‘anniversary’ of the first Covid lockdown, and with the ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sides for Monday. In total 57 testing sites have been announced in all districts. People need to present proof of identity such as ID ...

China and Iran, both subject to US sanctions, signed a 25-year cooperation agreement on Saturday to strengthen their long-standing economic and political alliance. “Relations between the two countries have now ...

European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Sunday that he hoped Europe will have a summer tourist season this year, supported by a ramp-up in its COVID-19 vaccination efforts. ...

By Gwynne Dyer In the early decades of the Cold War, this was the season when Nato defence chiefs would announce their spending plans for the next year, and they ...

A Turkish Cypriot man whose family was killed by Greek Cypriots in 1974 called for the eradication of nationalism and fanaticism from schools and all forms of power during his loved ...