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More than 80 per cent of public schools now have access to speedier internet and the project is expected to be concluded by the end of January, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority ...

A minimum pension, subsidies to working mothers and photovoltaics in mountain areas were among Edek’s proposals incorporated in the revised budget, its chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday. Edek ...

Leaders of both communities met with UN secretary-general’s special envoy, Jane Holl Lute, on Monday, laying the groundwork for a possible informal five-party meeting. President Nicos Anastasiades conveyed to ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Monday that plans be advanced to construct some 800 homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, an official statement said. The announcement ...

Cyta, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, is projecting after-tax profits of €39.3 million in 2021, some €3m more than the previous year, its chairwoman told the House finance committee on Monday. Presenting the ...

Relations between the government and auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are deteriorating, President Nicos Anastasiades has said, accusing the official of allowing himself to be ‘weaponised’ by the opposition. In the second ...

The health ministry is ditching the practice of opening its vaccination portal for appointments at the stroke of midnight after a flood of protests by people squeezed out by those ...

The United States plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, a move that diplomats and aid groups worry could ...

Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League match at Aston Villa on Wednesday has been postponed due to a number of COVID-19 cases at the Midlands club, with Spurs now set to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for the first time since a war last year over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an effort to ...

Half the people in a Bank of Cyprus poll said they had suffered a loss of income to some degree in the past five months, as Cyprus feels the full ...

By Katie Wright First things first: how exactly do you pronounce ‘baobab’? Well, there’s a bit of debate there. The British pronunciation is ‘bei-uh-bab’, whereas Americans usually say ‘baw-bab’. ...

Another midweek round of Premier League matches could see Liverpool lose their place at the top of the table. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at some of ...

This time we all know what a lockdown means but does that mean we are any better equipped to deal with it? ALIX NORMAN asks what we will be carrying ...

British airline easyJet has boosted its liquidity through a new five-year loan facility of $1.87 billion, backed by a partial guarantee from Britain, helping to ease concerns about its finances as ...

Aphrodite Hills Holiday Residences properties are now listed on Homes & Villas by Marriott International, a global collection of premium and luxury private home rentals. The property management company was ...

The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Facebook collect ...

Tensions rose in the northern part of Nicosia on Monday during a protest by Turkish Cypriots working in the south against the measures that prevent them from getting to their ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou When it was first announced that actor Nicolas Cage would host an off-the-cuff Netflix series about the history of cursing less than four weeks ago, audiences were ...

Citing measures introduced to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the transport ministry said on Monday that it was postponing the start of the transitional period for a new regime governing flight ...

By Annette Ekin There was one science story that dominated 2020 and coronavirus is likely to remain a dominant theme in 2021. But from vaccine rollout to lessons for future pandemics and – ...

State nurses’ union Pasyno proposed referring patients to the private sector and suspending non-emergency procedures, as well as getting nursing staff off desks in a bid to reinforce ICUs and ...

A significant reduction in the number of coronavirus cases will only be observed in the third week of the lockdown, according to Petros Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Virology at ...

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