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As the second week of the Australian Open begins, fans eagerly wait to see if the two Grand Slam winners left in the men’s draw can reach the summit ...

As of April 1, Israelis vaccinated with a vaccine approved by the European Medicine Association (EMA) will not be required to take a PCR test to travel to Cyprus and will ...

One death and 123 new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The health ministry said the death was of a man, 87 with underlying health conditions. The total number of deaths from ...

By Costas Themistocleous A lot of ink will be used before the new five-party conference is held in a month or two. Perhaps even more than was used in all ...

New law could help in fight against corruption and ineptitude in government By Theo Panayides The saga of Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, who complained to the police about a Twitter ...

The health ministry has announced the rapid testing sites for Monday. The sites are for the testing of the wider population but also the obligatory weekly testing of people back ...

The Savoy Hotel is a luxury hotel on the Strand in central London. It was built by impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan operas, ...

A total of 44,429 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 until February 13, the health ministry said on Sunday. In total, 29,592 people have had the first dose of the vaccine, while 14,837 have ...

But scars of the pandemic will hang over the world for many years to come By Charles Ellinas The Atlantic Council (AC) held its annual Global Energy Forum at Abu ...

Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats ...

This video offers us pre-Covid highlights of the enigmatic southeast African country of Mozambique. With its long, dune-fringed beaches and turquoise waters, Mozambique’s eastern coastline along the Indian Ocean ...

Nobody is in favour of a formal partition of Cyprus but the risks are real By Christos P Panayiotides Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ brief visit to Cyprus has unquestionably ...

By William James British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed a “significant milestone” on Sunday as data showed 15 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations had been delivered, fuelling calls for the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old brewery that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities ministry said. The site ...

By Elias Hazou While by no means a death blow to Cyprus’ aspirations to export natural gas to Egypt, a recent investment decision by companies in nearby Israel to expand ...

By Vorasit Satienlerk Fifty-nine couples in Thailand got married while riding elephants on Sunday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in a province ...

In a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of Valentine’s Day, New Yorker cartoonist Suerynn Lee demonstrates the way she draws bad dates, and explains how her improv background taught her to create ...

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters on Saturday. ‘...

An out-of-the-box approach By Christos Yiangou For too many decades Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been trying hard, under UN auspices, to resolve the Cyprus problem and reunite their ...

A protest by left-wing organisations against pandemic measures and corruption, called simply ‘ENOUGH!’, was dispersed by police, including with the use of tear gas and water cannon. Full story here

Turkish soldiers conducting an operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq have found the bodies of 13 kidnapped Turks executed in a cave, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said. ...

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Flights and tourism between Israel and Cyprus will resume as soon as conditions allow, the two countries’ presidents said on Sunday following a meeting in Jerusalem. President Nicos Anastasiades met ...

Covid-19 has caused the worst crisis in aviation’s history. Is this the industry’s moment for a green reset – and if so, which technologies offer the best hope? View ...