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The Canadian province of British Columbia suffered nearly double the average deaths as temperatures hit a record high of 46.6°C (115.88°F) during the past four days of “extreme heat”, officials ...

Onsi Sawiris, the patriarch of a family of billionaire businessmen who launched a group of multinational companies under the Orascom umbrella, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, chairman of ...

Companies making payments from the UK to the EU are seeing sharply higher fees that add up quickly, a report in Finance Monthly shows. Some European companies are also faced ...

Arian Adeli started his first company when he was sixteen. The company has been successful, and so Arian has written a book to go with it. Since then, he and ...

From this Saturday July 3, EU member states are supposed to ban some single-use plastics (SUPs) items and replace them with sustainable alternatives. But not in Cyprus. We still have not ...

The outgoing health minister said at the weekend the government had reached a crossroads on vaccination although it has more or less met the target of 65 per cent having had ...

It’s about using technology to maintain a viable, rural way of life By Charalampos Theopemptou In Cyprus helping rural areas usually means development rights, high speed roads and cobble ...

Artem Dovbyk netted in stoppage time at the end of extra time as Ukraine squeezed past 10-man Sweden 2-1 at Hampden Park on Tuesday to claim the last available berth ...

In her capacity as an academic, a member of the government’s coronavirus advisory team has received a grant from the EU on Covid vaccine research for her university department. ...

The lawyers representing more than 100 plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the state and members of the Covid advisory team have asked the auditor-general to look into whether the state’...

Serena Williams has become the latest casualty at Wimbledon after an ankle injury forced her to retire from her first-round match with Aliaksandra Sasnovich. The seven-time singles’ winner at the ...

Malta will introduce tighter COVID-19 rules on Wednesday, banning British visitors who are not fully vaccinated in an effort to prevent the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, ...

Overall asylum applications across the EU fell in 2020, but Cyprus is among the member states that received the most applications relative to their population size, the European Asylum Defence Office’...

The Netherlands’ defence minister said on Tuesday that Russian fighter jets armed with air-to-surface missiles had harassed a Dutch navy frigate in the Black Sea earlier this month, conducting mock ...

Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Tuesday he was very concerned about developments in Varosha and called for immediate action before it is too late. Referring to the issue ...

1605 KERBER STAVES OFF STOJANOVIC CHALLENGE Former champion Angelique Kerber started slowly but drew on her vast experience to beat Wimbledon debutant Nina Stojanovic 6-4 6-3 under the roof on Court ...

Sixth seed Roger Federer survived a massive scare against Adrian Mannarino before advancing to the Wimbledon second round on Tuesday when the Frenchman retired with a knee injury after slipping ...

England reached the quarter-finals of the European Championship with a 2-0 win over rivals Germany after Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane scored second-half goals at Wembley on Tuesday. England took ...

The health ministry announced 332 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday after 49,741 tests, a positivity rate of 0.67 per cent. At the same time, 59 people were being treated in hospital, 20 in serious or ...

Schools across the island will become more digitally advanced, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Tuesday announcing that a tender has already been launched to upgrade the technological capabilities of ...

A refrigerator failure in Estonia destroyed more than 68,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines last week after the temperature rose to 15 degrees Celsius, the Health Board said on Tuesday. The alarm ...

The youngest patient in the Famagusta Covid ward is currently aged 20, its scientific director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Tuesday. “The average patient age has fallen to 49 with the youngest being ...

Elam on Tuesday took a swipe at Edek over the socialist party leader’s refusal to convene the House defence committee he is chairing in protest over the far-right party’...

Ready for some jaw-dropping feats of slacklining? Because if you’re inspired by impossible acrobatics off wires slung across yawning drops, then this is the video for you. Slacklining refers ...