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Police proceeded with 5,504 checks for violations of Covid-19 decrees in 24 hours from Monday until Tuesday and booked 78 persons, including two owners of businesses, as a result. In Nicosia, 2,120 checks were ...

Elite sport will be allowed to continue in England despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing a new national COVID-19 lockdown on Monday due to surging infections in the country caused ...

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc expects to start a late-stage US study of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the second quarter of 2021, the drug developer’s chief executive officer said on ...

State-owned investment funds, including those of Norway, China, and UAE which have trillions of dollars to spend, invested the least in real estate in eight years in 2020, shying away from ...

More than two-thirds of the 15 million coronavirus vaccines shipped within the United States have gone unused, U.S. health officials as the governors of New York and Florida vowed to ...

Turkish inflation edged higher than expected to 14.6 per cent year-on-year in December as food costs jumped, official data showed on Monday, keeping pressure on the central bank for tight monetary ...

A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar’s three-year-old dispute with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement aimed at ending their rift is to be signed ...

High school teachers on Monday said they were being discriminated against since they were being asked to be physically present at their workplaces compared to the rest of the civil ...

Efforts to persuade the three deputies of Edek to vote for 2021 budget, which was rejected by the legislature last month, resumed on Monday when Disy chief Averof Neophytou met the ...

A superb second-minute lob by Danny Ings against his former club gave Southampton a surprise 1-0 home win over Premier League leaders Liverpool, with the Reds’ attack looking rudderless as ...

By Doina Chiacu and Julia Harte Georgia’s top election official said on Monday that fellow Republican President Donald Trump had pushed him to take an “inappropriate” call in which ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities announced on Monday that only ambulances will be allowed to use the Kato Pyrgos/Limnitis crossing point while everyone else will be subject to quarantine. This ...

Two deaths from coronavirus and 665 new cases of the disease were announced on Monday. The health ministry said the two deaths were of an 88-year-old man and another man aged 73. ...

By William Schomberg and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases that threatens to ...

Michalakis Leptos, the founder and executive chairman of the Leptos Group of Companies, who died at the age of 83 on Sunday, was a pioneering developer, the first to recognise the ...

The health ministry has announced the updated list of sites where rapid tests will be available on Tuesday. District Testing Sites Time Limassol Grigoris Afxentiou Square (outside Dioikitirio) 8.30am-5pm ...

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides on Monday discussed the Cyprus issue and bilateral ties with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during a short meeting at the Larnaca airport. The two ministers ...

The new variant of Covid-19, first detected in the UK, has now been found among the community in Cyprus, it emerged on Monday. According to the health ministry, the new ...

Flights to and from Cyprus decreased by 48,000 last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a Eurocontrol report said on Monday. According to the pan-European organisation for aviation safety, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has called a meeting with party leaders on Thursday to discuss a new 2021 state budget, as Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Monday continued efforts to secure enough ...

The number of undocumented migrants arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands on rickety boats was more than eight times higher in 2020 from the previous year, the Spanish Interior Ministry said ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out further measures later on Monday to try to control the rising spread in cases from the new variant of COVID-19, a spokesman ...

Watford captain Troy Deeney has criticised players who broke coronavirus restrictions over Christmas and New Year. A number of players from several Premier League clubs were pictured at gatherings that ...

Vaccinations in the north will start on January 15, with Sinovac, the Chinese vaccine to be delivered to the Turkish Cypriot community by Turkey, it was reported on Monday. In the ...