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By Elias Hazou Where to start? Another year, another 12 months of growing authoritarianism, coercion and medical surveillance, with Covid serving as the predicate. In that sense, 2021 merely picked up where 2020 ...

Our leaders embraced illogical behaviour from the beginning and have never deviated from that path By Christos Panayiotides The word “surrealism” comes from the French words “sur” (on, above) and “...

The European Union has drawn up plans to label some natural gas and nuclear energy projects as “green” investments after a year-long battle between governments over which investments are truly ...

An interview with the ‘mushroom couple’ proved to be a welcome, educational relief from Covid-19 for Antigoni Pitta A journalist, a marketeer and a lawyer walk into a bar….to ...

New restrictions in England to slow the spread of COVID-19 will only be introduced as a last resort, health minister Sajid Javid said, stressing that although hospitalisations were rising, the ...

Stock markets dipped on Friday in thin trading but were set to see in the New Year with double-digit gains for 2021, while oil prices retreated from $80 a barrel following their ...

The Arakapas fire in July destroyed an area of 55 square kilometres By George Psyllides While Covid has dominated the news and affected life on the planet for the past two ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “our moral compass and national conscience” as South Africa bade farewell at a state funeral on Saturday to a hero ...

Gold was set for its worst year since 2015 on Friday as a global economic recovery caused safe-haven flows into the metal to ease and as central banks prepared to raise ...

By Achilleas Demetriades At the end of every year each one of us reflects on the year ahead and sets out our goals regarding what we would like to achieve ...

Turkey sharply raised electricity prices by 50-100% for households and companies on Saturday, and again increased monthly natural gas bills, adding to strains in an economy facing soaring overall inflation. ...

Emerging market stocks broke a two-year winning run, but were set to end the last day of 2021 on a positive note on Friday boosted by China shares, while Turkey’s ...

A taste of London’s renowned theatre is coming to the island with the New Year. Resuming the National Theatre Live (NT Live) programme, Rialto Theatre hosts an encore screening ...

In the last 24 hours, police booked 11 individuals and four businesses during 2,663 checks on people breaking Covid decrees. In Nicosia no fines were issues while in Limassol four individuals and three ...

A 20-year-old woman died in the early hours of New Year’s Day on the Athienou-Aradippou road in the Larnaca district. According to police, Gabriella Savva from Oroklini was a ...

Bitcoin close to $70,000, “memecoins” worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector’s volatile ...

Britain recognised the scientists and medical chiefs at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19 in Queen Elizabeth’s annual New Year’s honours list, while James Bond actor Daniel ...

Comedic actress Betty White, who capped a career of more than 80 years by becoming America’s geriatric sweetheart after Emmy-winning roles on television sitcoms “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary ...

The Omicron coronavirus variant dampened New Year festivities around much of the world, with Paris cancelling its fireworks show, London relegating its to television, and New York City scaling down ...

By Alper Ali Riza Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for sexually abusing girls. She ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recommends renewal of Unficyp’s mandate for another six months, as he censured the government over its treatment of asylum seekers, emphasising the importance of ...

We enter another year of uncertainty and unpredictability today. After two years shaped by the sole government objective of controlling the spread of Covid-19 in its mutating forms, only a ...

HAPPY new year and I sincerely wish your hangover is manageable. I do not remember the last time the Coffeeshop was open on New Year’s Day, which caused a ...

The Editor, You reported that the rainfall in Cyprus in December reached 113 per cent of the annual average according to the Cyprus met office. Is that really true? The average ...