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Under growing threat by a new US administration insistent on reclassifying ride-hail and food delivery workers as employees with full benefits, gig economy companies including Uber, Lyft, Doordash and Instacart ...

Chinese physician Jiang Yawen, 38, heading a team of five fellow doctors, has been on duty in Malta since last October. The 16th Chinese Medical Team for Malta offers traditional Chinese ...

All vaccination centres in India’s financial capital of Mumbai were shut for three days starting Friday due to a shortage of vaccines, said authorities, as the country posted another ...

At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy disaster”. ...

The pound, enjoying a period of calm after 4-1/2 years of Brexit-linked chaos, may suffer some turmoil if an election next week raises the chances of Scottish nationalists calling — and ...

Cyprus was 12th among the top choices by groups of adults, and 12th among the best picks for family travel, according to a survey of 5,000 consumers using the metasearch site ...

New Zealand cheesemakers are upset over moves by the European Union to grant exclusive use of the term halloumi to the Cypriot producers, NewstalkZB reported on Thursday. Earlier this month, ...

As expected, the informal five-plus-one- conference was a monumental failure. The Turkish Cypriot side, with Ankara’s full support, stuck to its position on two states and sovereign equality, while ...

Bruno Fernandes and Edinson Cavani scored twice each as Manchester United took a giant step towards the Europa League final with a 6-2 drubbing of AS Roma in their semi-final ...

Villarreal claimed a narrow advantage in their Europa League semi-final against Arsenal with a 2-1 home victory in the first leg on Thursday, although they will feel frustrated at letting ...

Twitter Inc shares sank on Thursday as it reported a surge in ad sales but warned of rising costs and expenses and said user growth could slow in the coming ...

New York’s attorney general said on Thursday she has opened a probe into whether baby food contains arsenic and other toxic metals, and asked four manufacturers to provide information ...

Police officers and cadets gave blood on Thursday to boost blood banks which last week had issued an urgent appeal to donors amid depleted stocks. According to an announcement, police ...

Cyprus had by April 26 taken delivery of 436,040 doses of Covid-19 vaccines the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday citing a document distributed in the committee of permanent representatives (COREPER). It ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was nothing to see or to worry about in an electoral watchdog investigation into the funding of the refurbishment his Downing ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced two more deaths from Covid-19, and 668 new positives to the coronavirus from islandwide testing. The two latest deaths are a man aged 75, unvaccinated against ...

The special parliamentary committee on the source of funds of state officials has always adhered to the relevant legislation, as it stands, and cannot be accused of a cover-up, House ...

Germany must update its climate law by the end of next year to set out how it will bring carbon emissions down to almost zero by 2050, its top court ruled ...

During the month of April the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has exhumed additional human remains at an excavation site in Bellapais in the north, bringing the total ...

‘Pafos Zoo’ has welcomed the successful breeding of a rare parrot. In 2018, the zoo brought four pairs of the birds, ‘yellow-fronted parrots,’ (Poicephalus flavifrons) from Ethiopia in Africa with the ...

Neapolis University’s digital event entitled Connecting the Business World and Universities: The Contribution of the Liaison Office with the Labour Market was conducted with great success on April 15. During ...

A court in Thailand on Thursday denied bail for seven detained activists accused of insulting the king, two of whom have deteriorating health from more than a month of hunger ...

A fire that broke out in the industrial area in the Larnaca district was brought under control late on Thursday, but not before it gutted a warehouse. Fire service spokesman ...

Some residents of Akaki, outside Nicosia, were up in arms Thursday after they discovered that access to their homes and properties had been restricted by the installation of razor wire ...