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More than 5,000 anti-vaccine protesters, some them waving Greek flags and wooden crosses, rallied in Athens on Wednesday to oppose Greece’s coronavirus vaccinations programme. Shouting “take your vaccines and get ...

Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that strict home confinement included in a national state of emergency to curb the first wave of COVID-19 infections last year was unconstitutional. ...

Travellers returning to England from the Spanish islands of Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca will have to self-isolate at home unless they have had two Covid vaccine shots, following a change ...

The health ministry announced the death of a 56-year-old woman from Covid-19 on Wednesday, as infections reached a record high of 1,120 after 62,656 tests, a positivity rate of 1.79 per cent. The ...

Air raid sirens will sound at 8.20am on Thursday to mark the start of the coup 47 years ago to overthrow president Makarios. Church services for those killed during the coup ...

A senior Russian security official warned Britain on Wednesday not to sail its warships near Russian-annexed Crimea again unless it wanted its sailors to get hurt. The warning, issued by ...

The Open Championship at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England, begins Thursday players navigating not only the links course but also the stricter-than-usual pandemic restrictions. The Open was the ...

Police said Wednesday they have seized two kilos of cocaine and arrested two suspects during an operation in the Nicosia district. The force tweeted that during an ongoing drug squad ...

More evenings of outdoor cinema are coming to Nicosia with the Sommerkino (summer cinema) at the Goethe-Institut Cyprus. A varied programme of short and feature films in the garden this ...

The government is drafting a bill that would introduce a small deposit return fee to help reduce waste, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis told the House Environment Committee on Wednesday. He ...

Top oil shipping companies say they have tightened operational guidelines and deployed technology to prevent accidental breaches of sanctions, as the countries hit by ever tougher restrictions fight back with ...

Twitter saw a surge in demands over the course of last year from governments around the world to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, data to be ...

The Big Four accounting firms dominated auditing of Britain’s top listed companies last year and collected higher fees, the industry’s regulator said on Wednesday, as long-standing plans to ...

European Union policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change, aiming to turn green goals into concrete action this decade and set an example for ...

As the heat wave continues to grip Cyprus, the met office has issued a new extreme high temperature warning for Thursday when temperatures are expected to reach 41C inland and 33...

The health ministry announced a total of 61 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The state health services (Okypy) is postponing all non-urgent operations in anticipation of a rise in hospital admissions as a result of the recent surge in coronavirus case, spokesman Charalambos ...

Two sea turtles – Androniki and Emma –were released back into the sea on Wednesday after recuperating at the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre of the Fisheries Department where they were taken ...

If you thought coronavirus restrictions were irrational, wait to see what they do to people who test positive during The Great Crumble. But this is only part of the story ...

Britain’s top domestic spymaster cautioned the population on Wednesday to treat the threat of spying from Russia and China as vigilantly as terrorism, warning that foreign spies were seeking ...

Bank of Cyprus, as part of its strategy to comprehensively protect and respect personal data, and responding to the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the ...

Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices. According to ...

Buckle in, the new episodes of Baptiste see the French detective face his most complex case yet. Georgia Humphreys finds out more from its lead star. Tcheky Karyo may be ...

A man has finally reunited with his abducted son after a 24-year hunt across China, handing out missing-person flyers, that burned through his savings and left him with massive debts. ...