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The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) on Thursday announced a new funding programme called Collaborative Development – Co-Develop, seeking to bring together Cyprus’ research community with local industry. The programme, aimed ...

The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy. It has come at a time when the recovery from Covid-19 has begun to ...

By Kyriaki Christodoulou Cyprus produced 543,000 tonnes of solid waste in 2020, down 4.9 per cent on the 571,000 the previous year, the Cyprus News Agency’s Kyriaki Christodoulou reported on Friday — World Recycling ...

BEFORE the University of Cyprus was set up, there was a big debate about the language that should be used. One camp was in favour of English as this would ...

The world is changing as you are reading this. Human beings are not exempt from evolution, and as with all living things, we evolve. Where the development of using the ...

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday of ‘consequences’ if Beijing gave material support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the White House said, while ...

The establishment of femicide as a distinct crime which will introduce aggravating factors in trials for gender-related killings of women will send a “groundbreaking message” on gender-based violence, the chairman ...

At least 12 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy on Friday, a civil protection official told Reuters. The official added that ...

Cyprus granted fewer citizenships in 2020 compared with the previous year, bucking the EU trend which saw a total of around 729,000 persons given citizenship of an EU member state, a three ...

The United States and Western allies slammed Russia on Friday for spreading propaganda, disinformation and “nonsense” at the United Nations Security Council by alleging that parts of biological weapons were ...

The health ministry announced that there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 and that 3,859 had tested positive from 99,636 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 3.87 per cent. The ...

Hundreds of Greek farmers, some on tractors, protested in Athens on Friday, demanding more tax cuts and subsidies to combat high fuel and fertiliser prices which have soared since Russia’...

The biotech company that makes mRNA-delivery technology for Pfizer’s PFE.N Covid-19 vaccine sued Arbutus Biopharma Corp ABUS.O in Manhattan federal court on Friday, seeking to head off ...

“No woman has ever benefited by learning less about her body” Canadian gynaecologist Jennifer Gunter once said, and an upcoming workshop in Nicosia takes this on board and invites women ...

Russia’s biggest cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has suspended all flights using Boeing BA.N aircraft due to Western sanctions, it said on Friday. Sanctions have cut off the supply ...

Cyprus fuel prices have surged in line with those abroad, but are still among the lowest in the EU, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Friday, adding that based on ...

State-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp is seeking $22.4 million from its insurer for a cargo ship hit by a missile in March, government officials with knowledge of the talks said, in the ...

Cypriot authorities have established a 24-hour channel of communication with the Ukrainian embassy in Nicosia to facilitate assistance to refugees from the war-torn country, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on ...

Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage ...

A subsea cable owned by Google GOOGL.O that promises to double internet speeds for millions in Africa arrived in Togo on Friday, the company said, the latest step in ...

We have all heard many tales of how the coronavirus has affected so many people across the globe. The worldwide lockdown is definitely something that rocked the boat of all ...

A World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Friday that food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with key infrastructure such as bridges and trains destroyed by bombs and many ...

Russia’s hopes of competing at the 2022 World Cup were effectively ended after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected a request from the Russian Football Union to freeze ...

Priests force children and adults into hormone and other conversion therapy treatments, which remain legal in Cyprus, with the aim of changing their sexual orientation and gender identity, MPs heard ...