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While the world struggles to shift from petrol to electric vehicles, efforts to reclaim the economically costly hours of congestion, and cut down on accidents and CO2 emissions resulting from ...

I was shocked to learn of the survey that was taken showing that only four out of 10 people said they would get the Covid vaccine. Have they not been watching ...

The health ministry has released the testing locations for Monday as follows: Thus, employees may proceed to the testing units operating in all Districts, according to the plan designed by ...

George Orwell’s Big Brother, Stalin, Adolf Hitler and their ilk would be jealous of the level of Draconian state measures introduced by the Cyprus government. There is a virulent ...

A police officers’ association called Isotita (Equality) on Sunday warned it would have to take action before officers or firefighters were killed in the light of a series of violent ...

Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days, killing at least five people on Sunday, media reported, three months after a coup ...

One person has died and 44 new Covid positives were recorded in the last 24 hours in the north from 6,319 tests, according to a written statement from ‘health minister’ Unal Ustel. The ...

The prolonged duration of the health crisis is creating a difficult and stressful environment for workers and vulnerable groups while social problems are accumulating, according to the the general-secretary of ...

The funeral of the former leader of Edek Vassos Lyssarides will be held on Wednesday May 5. Lyssarides, a central figure in Cyprus politics since the island’s independence, died on ...

Manchester City are on the brink of a third Premier League title in four seasons after a 2-0 win at Crystal Palace on Saturday secured with goals by Sergio Aguero ...

Israel observed a day of mourning on Sunday for 45 people crushed to death at a Jewish religious festival, with flags lowered to half-staff and questions raised about accountability for one ...

In a flowery Easter Sunday message intermingled with a religious message about the resurrection of Christ, Archbishop Chrysostomos touched on the coronavirus pandemic and the Cyprus issue. “The hopeful message ...

A police patrol car was destroyed by fire in Limassol on Saturday night when officers had a number of run-ins with people trying to set bonfires in various areas. Paphos ...

For nearly a year we are watching every day a new scandal unfolding over the golden passports given to rich investors. And on the other hand there are people who ...

It was well known that common ground was beyond the reach of the protagonists at the 5+1 conference on Cyprus. It was a fool’s errand, but it went ahead regardless ...

India’s new coronavirus cases dipped marginally on Sunday but deaths due to the infection jumped by a record 3,689, with one more state going into lockdown as the nation’s ...

Renowned Cypriot poet and playwright Michalis Pashiardis has died at the age of 80. Pashiardis was born in Tseri in 1941 and completed high school at the Pancyprian high school in Nicosia. ...

Olympia Dukakis, best known for her Oscar-winning film ‘Moonstruck’, has died at the age of 89. The news was broken on Saturday by her brother, Apollo Dukakis in a Facebook post. ...

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Saturday Tehran expects US sanctions on oil, banks and most individuals and institutions to be lifted based on agreements so far in Vienna ...

The German economy contracted by a greater than expected 1.7 per cent in the first quarter as a lockdown in place since November to contain the coronavirus stifled private consumption in ...

North Korea lashed out at the United States and its allies in South Korea on Sunday in a series of statements saying recent comments from Washington are proof of a ...

Lebanon’s public prosecutor has launched an investigation into central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said, after a Swiss legal request alleged that more than $300 million had been ...

Disagreements over intellectual property rights mean Germany, France and Spain have yet to agree the next steps for a joint fighter jet project, the defence ministry in Berlin said on ...

By Les Manison The Cyprus Statistical Service has released revised national and government accounts estimates for 2020. These estimates, which are still preliminary, indicate that the Cyprus economy performed somewhat worse ...