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Egypt’s tourism sector is eying a gradual recovery after revenues plunged by nearly 70% to $4 billion in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism minister and travel companies said. The ...

Main opposition Akel sought to keep up pressure on the government on Monday over an apparently wrong police raid at a private citizen’s home after Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis ...

With 21 goals scored across seven games, the first round of the Cyprus first division in 2021 has set a benchmark for the remainder of the season. The end of round 17 finds ...

Petrolina Holdings on Monday released a regulatory announcement stating its acquisition of the oil trading firm Silk oil. Petrolina will pay a redemption consideration at a maximum amount of €9 million, ...

Which word sums up 2020? ALIX NORMAN discovers how Covid-19 has impacted how we speak and reveals the words that typify the year just passed At the end of each year, ...

The voter registration deadline for the May 30 parliamentary elections is April 2, the election service said on Monday. Teenagers who will turn 18 by the date of the elections can also register ...

Around 185 people were being treated in hospital on Monday and more were expected in the coming days following the holidays, a health official said, as the government was considering imposing ...

The parcel offices at four district post offices will remain open beyond normal operating hours later this week to deal with a backlog of parcels, the Cyprus Post said on ...

By Michael Holden A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying ...

Netflix’s end of year special Death to 2020, made by Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, was supposed to be a surprise, announced mere days before its December 27 ...

Scientists are not fully confident that COVID-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, ITV’s political editor said on Monday, citing an ...

Germany’s health ministry is seeking advice on whether to delay administering a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech and Pfizer to make scarce supplies go further, according ...

The second phase of Covid-19 vaccinations is expected to kick off on January 8, with a public portal where people will arrange an appointment for a jab going live on Tuesday, ...

A 24-year-old man will stand trial for traffic offences after he was arrested driving at twice the speed limit on the motorway on Sunday. His trial is set for January 20. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades received the auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday who handed him the service’s annual report for 2019. From a very short statement, it appears the two men did ...

Paphos police on Sunday arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with the theft of an ice-making machine worth €3,500. The machine was stolen from outside a restaurant in Paphos on December 29. ...

Gerwyn Price beat Gary Anderson 7-3 on Sunday evening to become the first Welshman to win the PDC World Championship. The 35-year-old also becomes the new world number one after ...

Two people were arrested for allegedly swearing at police and nine were fined for failing to abide by coronavirus measures during a protest on Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday. ...

As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against COVID-19, its plan to prioritise working age adults over the elderly, aiming to reach herd immunity fast and revive the economy, will ...

In 2019, 15.4 per cent of the population in Cyprus reported they suffered from noise coming from their neighbours or from the street, lower than the EU average of 17.3 per cent, the ...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has played down the likelihood he will utilise the January transfer window to ease his problems in central defence. Klopp’s assertion “not all clubs have ...

Britain began vaccinating its population with the COVID-19 shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Monday, touting a scientific “triumph” that puts it at the vanguard of the West ...

Police in the Famagusta district on Sunday arrested three suspects in connection with rioting, arson and other crimes committed shortly after midnight on January 1 in Sotira. The three suspects aged 16, 17 ...

The foundation stone laying ceremony of the Cyprus Centre for Land, Open Seas and Port Security (CYCLOPS) training facility takes place in Larnaca on Monday, in the presence of Cyprus ...