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The Cyprus Shipping Deputy Ministry (SDM) has announced a new range of green incentives to reward vessels that demonstrate effective emissions reductions. From fiscal year 2021, annual tonnage tax will be ...

Following a request by the Armenian and Greek Pontian communities of Paphos, the municipal council has renamed Talaat Pasha street, which recognises the man widely regarded as the principal architect ...

The Anastasiades government’s tendency to shoot itself in the foot, would suggest that very little thought is put into some of its decisions. The latest row, over the increased ...

Leicester City beat Chelsea 2-0 on Tuesday to go top of the Premier League, for 24 hours at least, thanks to goals from Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison. Leicester have 38 points ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on Tuesday, urged prayers for the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but declined to acknowledge his Democratic successor by ...

EU High Representative on foreign policy Josep Borrell expressed the hope on Tuesday that his upcoming meeting with Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will last longer than their previous ...

Limassol police are questioning a 27-year-old professional soldier (Syop) in connection with an explosion at a Cyprus telecommunications authority (Cyta) branch on December 13, the Cyprus News Agency reported late on ...

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be secretary of state, Antony Blinken, pledged on Tuesday that he will work to revitalise damaged American diplomacy and build a united front to ...

Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic who was jailed at the weekend, on Tuesday released a video in which he and his allies alleged that an opulent ...

UN special representative Elizabeth Spehar on Tuesday briefed the UN Security Council on the secretary general’s good offices mission in Cyprus, focusing on efforts to convene an informal five ...

Movement restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic have limited contacts across the Green Line and deepened estrangement between two communities, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said in his latest report ...

Cyprus and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday agreed to launch a political dialogue between foreign ministries, with a first meeting and political consultation to be held in Riyadh in the near ...

One person died and 164 have tested positive for coronavirus after 8,366 tests, a positivity rate of 1.96 per cent, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The death of an 81-year-old man with ...

The health ministry has announced 19 sites where rapid coronavirus tests will be available for the general population on Wednesday. District Testing sites Time Limassol Sklavenitis supermarket car park, Yermasoyia (Columbia) 8.30 ...

As night fell, the joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) said it was suspending a search and rescue operation in the sea off Larnaca for a 70-year-old woman who has been ...

Cyprus hopes to tap a new niche market for tourists with luxury camping, or glamping, for which legislation is being drafted, deputy tourism minister Savvas Perdios said on Tuesday after ...

The amount spent on player transfers in international football fell by 23.4% last year as the impact of the COVID pandemic was felt across the game. Figures released by FIFA showed ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers agreed on Tuesday to extend a lockdown for most shops and schools until Feb. 14 as part of a package of steps to try ...

Cyprus has secured an additional 565,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines, the health ministry said on Tuesday as it announced that if EU approval of other vaccines goes as planned, ...

Medellín, Colombia has undergone an impressive transformation over recent years. Once better-known for drug cartels and violence, today it is emerging as a champion of urbanism. In fact, in 2016, ...

The coronavirus advisory committee will meet on Tuesday evening to lay down a framework for the potential relaxation of measures, committee member Maria Koliou said on Tuesday morning. The committee ...

The municipality of Nicosia’s recent redevelopment plans for the city centre are discriminatory and have not accounted for the blind, the Pancyprian Organisation of the Blind (Pot) said on ...

Which animal would you think has the bigger claws… an eagle or a grizzly bear? While we may think of lions and other massive predators as having the largest claws, ...

After Edek, the Solidarity party on Tuesday threatened to throw a spanner in the state budget, setting conditions in return for their vote on Thursday. Party head Eleni Theocharous said ...