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By Constantinos Christofides When I was Rector at the University of Cyprus, I was visited by a foreign ambassador just as his posting was drawing to an end in 2018. As ...

Cypriot Paralympic medallist Carolina Pelendritou took third place for the second time in a repeat of the final of the 50m freestyle in Tokyo on Sunday breaking her previous record ...

Popular Turkish singer and trans woman, Bulent Ersoy, better known as ‘Diva’, and her 21-member entourage and musicians appeared in court on Sunday after trying to enter the north of ...

Mass jabs still touted as way to herd immunity despite rising infections among vaccinated By Theo Panayides Questions over the long-term outlook of the global Covid-19 vaccination programme have continued ...

Authorities in Cyprus and the Isle of Man are desperate to find family members of a British woman whose body has lain unclaimed in the morgue of Paphos hospital since ...

The body of a diver missing since Saturday noon in the sea area of ​​Larnaca airport was located before midday on Sunday at a depth of 18 metres the Search and ...

At least one region in Germany is planning to impose tougher restrictions on people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 as the country faces a fourth wave of the pandemic, ...

The Greek Cypriot side stands ready to attend any meeting the UN Secretary-General wishes to convene on the Cyprus issue, either between the leaders of the two communities or with ...

Up until Saturday, 78.2 per cent of people in Cyprus had received one Covid jab and 73.8 per cent were fully covered, the health ministry said on Sunday. The government’s target ...

Kyriacos Nicolaou catches up with two Premier League greats on the island recently to coach kids at summer camps at Limassol’s Parklane hotel As the unrelenting August sun beat ...

A letter has been sent by Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas to the state health services organisation (Okypy) warning “for the last time” about delays, and “compliance with Council of Ministers ...

But revoking Cyprus passports of Turkish Cypriots was not the answer In a recent article of mine, I made the following important points concerning the 1974 Turkish military intervention: The 1974 coup, ...

Hurricane Ida made landfall in the United States on Sunday as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm that was set to plunge much of the Louisiana shoreline under water as the ...

A man driving at six times over the limit hit a traffic sign in Pervolia on Saturday night after losing control of his vehicle, police said. The man, 41, was driving ...

Thirty individuals and three businesses were fined in the last 24 hours for breaking Covid decrees. Police carried out 3,574 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, 1,091 checks were done resulting in two fines. In ...

Was President Anastasiades offering some light relief to lift the gloom caused by the opening of Varosha by proposing a return to the 1960s constitution, or was this another display ...

Novak Djokovic hesitated to call the U.S. Open a now-or-never moment, but the history-hunting Serb noted on Friday that an opportunity for a calendar year Grand Slam could be ...

The coming months, and 2022 will be crucial for ensuring the sustainability of public finances, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides has said. His ministry is currently working on the state budget but ...

Contaminants were found in Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccines at a large-scale vaccination centre in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture, suspending inoculations, public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday. The Okinawa vaccines ...

U.S. forces were in the final phase of pulling out of Kabul, ending two decades of costly involvement in Afghanistan, as the country’s new Taliban rulers prepared to ...

People who get the Delta variant of the coronavirus are twice as likely to be hospitalised as those who were infected by the Alpha variant which was first detected in ...

When businesses stray into apperception, they tend to fall from the sublime to the ridiculous. Businesses recognise creativity when it happens; that is simple perception. But in recent years, the ...

In July, Cyprus was named one of five most improved EU countries, rising by 33 per cent since 2014. The report highlighted “very strong increases” in several indicators, including venture capital, broadband ...

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