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By Gwynne Dyer “I will never kneel before such a destructive force (as the Taliban),” declared Ashraf Ghani, the soon-to-be-ex-president of Afghanistan. “We will either sit knee-to-knee for real negotiations ...

Not many Brits, but Ayia Napa has reclaimed some of its pre-pandemic bustle By Nick Theodoulou In the summer of 2021 Ayia Napa is back on its feet and has regained ...

By Jill Serjeant Going to the movies isn’t much fun for deaf people. Screenings in theatres with captions are limited and the special glasses and equipment needed to read ...

Eleven businesses and 43 individuals were booked during the past 24 hours for violations of the measures against the spread of coronavirus, police said on Sunday. In total 5,700 checks were carried out ...

By Christos Panayiotides ‘They on that side and this side and we, somewhere else.’ I like this slogan, despite its bitterness. I like it because it condenses my fears and ...

A memorial service was held in Paralimni on Sunday for Tasos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, both killed days apart in August 1996 by Turkish forces in the Dherynia buffer zone. Health ...

By Hyonhee Shin North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilised the military to carry out relief work in areas recently hit by heavy rains, state media said on Sunday, ...

A man, 52, and a woman, 39, were arrested police said on Sunday in connection with the killing of a cat in the Nicosia district earlier in the week. Arrest warrants were ...

Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more ...

More than 40 buses with around 500 Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Kokkina enclave on Sunday morning through the Limnitis-Kato Pyrgos crossing to attend the commemoration events for the 1964 Tylliria battles. In ...

In 2020, Coca-Cola HBC achieved impressive results in its drive to reduce its environmental footprint. The company has set “A World Without Waste” as its goal. Kalia Patsia, Corporate Affairs & ...

Global gas prices are expected to break records this winter as a hot northern hemisphere summer leaves inventories low in key markets, just as green energy drives ramp up in ...

The most devastating frost in decades in top coffee producer Brazil and record freight costs sparked by Covid-19 causing massive shipping logjams are expected to push retail prices to multi-year ...

Europe’s banks are stashing cash to pay bumper bonuses to top performers, amid a deal frenzy driven by pent up demand from the COVID-19 pandemic and rebounding bank profits. ...

The economic consequences of a sustained pandemic would be catastrophic. Ioannis Tirkides, chief economist at Bank of Cyprus* The emergence of a new variant, the Delta, and people’s hesitancy ...

But climate change not the sole driver of increasing temperatures and wildfires By Annette Chrysostomou The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot with huge fires raging in Turkey and Greece ...

By overturning a sham marriage decision this week, the Supreme Court proved itself independent of the executive in an area of law where the latter often rides roughshod over individual ...

No matter how hard the authorities try to reassure us they know what they are doing about controlling the pandemic, it is becoming increasingly clearer they do not. This situation ...

THE POLICE state has been showing its muscle. In the 24 hours up until Saturday morning, the cops had carried out 5,935 checks reporting 30 individuals and five businesses for violating the Covid ...

By Dr Yiorghos Leventis Often, the preoccupation with our national problem lacks international comparative analysis. It borders on navel gazing. In this article, I wish to highlight Ankara’s success ...

FA Cup winners Leicester City scored a late penalty to beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 in the Community Shield curtain-raiser to the season on Saturday. Second half substitute ...

Veteran Morne Steyn kicked over a last-gasp penalty to hand South Africa a narrow 19-16 victory over British and Irish Lions in the third and final test on Saturday to ...

Scores of people gathered outside the Presidential Palace in Nicosia on Saturday evening to protest the vaccinations of children. The protest, organised by Foni Laou in cooperation with other groups, ...

One death from coronavirus and 599 new positive cases were announced on Saturday out of 61,883 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.97 per cent. The death was a woman, aged 84, ...