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By Andrew Galbraith and Winni Zhou China on Saturday reported a slight increase in new cases of Covid-19 as it marks the anniversary of the world’s first coronavirus lockdown, ...

The website of Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday carried the image of a golfer resembling former President Donald Trump apparently being targeted by a drone alongside a threat of ...

If there’s one thing corona has taught us, it’s that no man, woman, or child is an island. We are all – as the authorities so often tell us – ...

Police fined 139 individuals and the owner of one establishment for violations of Covid-19 measures after 11,203 checks carried out across the island between Friday and Saturday morning. The owner of the ...

A palliative care centre for cancer patients in Famagusta is coming, says deputy head of KEPA Agios Christophoros in Paralimni. Dimitris Papaevelthontos told the Cyprus News Agency that the idea ...

RISE recently developed the Covid-19 contact tracing application which will be put to work in Cyprus within a few weeks of this publication. We’ll be able to identify if ...

“Cypriot companies must look abroad, and become ‘extrovert.’ Engagement in international markets is the only path to financial strength and sustainability but also to derisking. Our government sees attracting foreign ...

AEL have climbed to second in the Cyprus First Division after defeating Doxa Katokopias 3-1 in Limassol on Friday night. While Doxa went ahead early in the game through a ...

Kerry Kyriacos Michael, a Cypriot, is a leader in London threatre. Democratising the workplace and building motivated teams is a fundamental part of Cyprus 4.0. Kerry Kyriacos Michael, one of the ...

The tourism industry in Cyprus could be headed for another barren summer as the European Commission advises an end to all non-essential travel. Fears over a third wave and coronavirus ...

The Estia scheme, by which the taxpayer will subsidise the loans of people that have not been repaying their mortgages will now be extended to those who are ineligible to ...

Saying that the earthquake which rattled Cyprus on Thursday only underscored the sorry state of their current premises, employees working at the social insurance department on Byron Avenue in Nicosia ...

President Nicos Anastasiades welcomed the approval of the 2021 state budget by parliament, urging all parties to leave the toxic climate behind and focus on its implementation. “The government’s will ...

By Marine Strauss and Philip Blenkinsop Belgium is banning residents from taking vacations abroad until March to limit the spread of more infectious coronavirus variants and avoid a deadly third ...

With the approval of the 2021 state budget, the education ministry said on Friday it was now in a position to announce implementation of a €900 grant for artists as well as ...

February should be considered more of a transition period than a time to start easing Covid restrictions, the head of the government’s advisory committee, assistant professor of internal medicine ...

Police on Friday arrested a Limassol couple in connection with insurance fraud after their house was deliberately torched in December while they were abroad. The fire broke out just before ...

Boeing Co said on Friday it will begin delivering commercial airplanes capable of flying on 100 per cent biofuel by the end of the decade, calling reducing environmental damage from fossil ...

Europe’s COVID-19 vaccination drive was dealt another blow on Friday when AstraZeneca said initial deliveries to the region will fall short of the targeted volumes because of a production ...

Service providers were the main problem of the citizenship by investment programme, a finance ministry official told an investigative committee on Friday. Financial director Kyriacos Kakouris told the four-member panel ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday the new English variant of COVID-19 may be associated with a higher level of mortality although he said evidence showed that both ...

One person has died from Covid-19, the health ministry said on Friday, while 122 new cases were detected after 9,635 tests, a positivity rate of 1.27 per cent. The ministry said 179 people were ...

The Pancyprian professional artists union (Pasynek) will hold an all-day fundraiser in aid of the Cypriot artist community at Rialto theatre on Saturday. Participating acts will reflect the whole spectrum ...

Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a $100 million prize for development of the ‘best’ technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. Capturing ...