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A Paphos hotel has been fined €4,000 for failing to check guests’ SafePasses and carry the relevant coronavirus signage. The hotel was among the four businesses fined €5,750 in total for violating ...

The 53-year-old Gesy doctor, who was arrested on suspicion of issuing fake anti-Covid vaccination certificates, has been released pending the completion of police investigations. According to police information, cited by ...

August may not be the best month for hiking, with its scorching temperatures and high levels of humidity, yet hiking at night, under the full moon, is certainly an activity ...

An incendiary mix of strong, shifting winds and drought-parched vegetation stoked two of California’s largest wildfires on Wednesday, with thousands of people chased from their foothill and forest homes ...

A 17-year-old teenager was seriously injured in a hit and run early on Thursday in Paphos. According to police, an unidentified driver hit a boy who was walking on Makariou ...

If you want to invest in a fund branded as sustainable under new European Union rules, you’re spoilt for choice. But you may end up owning shares in oil ...

Armed members of the Taliban kept people desperate to flee Afghanistan from reaching Kabul’s airport on witnesses said, while President Joe Biden vowed to keep U.S. troops in ...

A London court on Wednesday approved a £10 billion-plus ($14 billion-plus) class action against global payments processor Mastercard (MA.N) that claimants said could entitle 46 million British adults to roughly £300 each if ...

The Bank of Cyprus has chosen TeamMate+ Audit as its solution for a number of challenges to internal audit, according to a case study published on Wednesday. TeamMate+ Audit, produced ...

Cyprus’ €1.2 billion Resilience and Recovery Plan (RRP) was approved by the EU on July 8, and there are already today a number of projects close to completion, and others in full ...

The total assets of investment funds increased by 11 per cent in June 2021 from March 2021, according to data released Tuesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus. Total assets of the investment ...

Cyprus has signed up to an EU push to combat climate change and its impacts, but figures released by Eurostat on Wednesday indicate that this is still very much a ...

Cyprus has spent some 15 years trying to put in place a system of traffic cameras without success due to technical and legal hurdles that saw various options shelved and taken ...

Benfica closed in on a Champions League group stage berth with a 2-1 home win over PSV Eindhoven and 10-man Young Boys beat Ferencvaros 3-2 in the first legs of ...

The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for people in American nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where residents are often elderly and frail, has dropped since the Delta variant became dominant ...

The health minister met with top officials to set out a plan for ICU capacity while a second high dependency unit has been in operation at Famagusta Hospital to meet ...

Cyprus ranked among the top five EU member states in absorbing cohesion funds, the finance ministry said on Wednesday citing the latest European Commission figures. It said the funds aim ...

A senior Taliban leader has said that the role of women in Afghanistan, including their right to work and education and how they should dress, would ultimately be decided by ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Wednesday that Cyprus stands in solidarity with nations facing waves of illegal immigration that is being used against them politically. EU interior ministers on Wednesday ...

The health ministry announced three deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday and said 433 more people had tested positive for the virus from 44,475 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.97 per ...

A total of 48 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

British lawmakers vented their anger on Wednesday at Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden over the collapse of Afghanistan into Taliban hands, calling it a failure of ...

Turkey’s end goal for the north is its annexation and for it to become a district of Turkey, according to comments made by former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. ...

Cyprus’ dams are at 60.2 per cent full, with farmers and consumers on tenterhooks that this winter will match the bountiful rains of the winters of 2018 and 2019 and not last year’...