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President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order on Friday to promote more competition in the U.S. economy, urging agencies to crack down on anti-competitive practices in sectors from ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has recommended the renewal of Unficyp’s mandate for a further six months and has stated his concern over Turkish activity in Varosha. An informal ...

France’s health regulator said on Friday it recommended that coronavirus vaccinations should be made compulsory without delay for all health workers and for other professionals who come into contact ...

Defending champion Novak Djokovic absorbed a barrage of powerful hitting from Canadian Denis Shapovalov to reach his seventh Wimbledon final on Friday with a 7-6(3) 7-5 7-5 victory that kept ...

The health ministry announced that there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, and that 882 people tested positive from 62,161 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.42 per ...

The confirmed death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower increased to 78 on Friday after workers recovered an additional 14 bodies and whittled the rubble down close to ground ...

Russia recorded around 428,000 excess deaths from April 2020 to May this year during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Reuters calculations based on data released by the state statistics service on Friday. ...

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, domestic exports managed to hold their own last year while leading products such as pharmaceuticals and halloumi even registered an increase over 2019, President Nicos ...

Europe’s drug regulator has found a possible link between very rare heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, it said on Friday, stressing that the benefits of ...

Mark Cavendish matched the Tour de France stage wins record as he collected the 34th of his career in Carcassonne. Cavendish moved level with Eddy Merckx as he took victory ...

The health ministry on Friday presented updated instructions for the rescheduling of vaccination appointments, reminding the public that the vaccination portal will from now on be open to everyone aged 16 ...

Seventh seed Matteo Berrettini became the first Italian to reach the Wimbledon final on Friday when he defeated Hubert Hurkacz of Poland 6-3 6-0 6-7(3) 6-4. The 25-year-old took two ...

The met office on Friday issued a yellow alert – the second in as many days — warning of extreme high temperatures on Saturday. The alert is in force from 1pm to 5...

The Nicosia district court has rejected a motion filed by 186 people asking for an interim order exempting them from health ministry decrees imposing restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of ...

Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci said they are wary of the speed of England’s attack ahead of Sunday’s Euro 2020 final, joking that for him and his defensive partner Giorgio ...

Stepping up efforts to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the health ministry said on Friday that from July 13, cinemas and theatres will be obliged to implement rules equivalent to ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said Friday he intends to resubmit a proposal for stricter penalties, including life in jail, for people who cause forest fires following a blaze in the ...

The company won 2 Gold and 2 Silver awards for its business practices and its innovative actions in Cypriot retail. Lidl Cyprus was awarded four prizes at the Cyprus Retail Excellence Awards 2020, ...

Amid a record surge in the number of positive coronavirus cases, the health ministry on Friday reiterated that individuals who test positive must isolate for 14 days and cannot end their ...

Just a few kilometres off the Hampshire coast lies the sunniest place in Britain! The Isle of Wight receives about 2,000 hours of sun each year! An island of contradictions – even ...

Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister has rejected a request by the lead investigator into the Beirut port explosion to question one of its top security chiefs, according a document seen ...

When Joseph Albo set a goal to ride a solo century in four hours or fewer, he knew it was going to be a challenge for a number of reasons. ...

The Biden administration is set as early as Friday to add more than 10 Chinese companies to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang, two ...

Hit by the collapse of Lebanon’s economy, the army has started selling rides on its helicopters to finance their maintenance, a measure of the depth of the financial troubles ...