Belgian league leaders Antwerp secured a shock 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan extended their unbeaten run to 23 games as they won 3-0 against Sparta Prague in the Europa League on Thursday, while Arsenal cruised to a 3-0 win over Dundalk. Veteran striker Lior Refaelov’s first-half goal...
A 31-year-old man died Thursday in a paragliding accident, with police investigating the precise circumstances. The deceased was identified as Marios Frangous, from Xylofagou village. The accident occurred around 5pm in the Halepianes area, Nicosia. The man was taken to Nicosia general hospital. No further details were given.
Police on Thursday reportedly searched the residences and offices of at least three persons linked to recent reveals by the Al Jazeera network concerning the controversial citizenship-by-investment scheme. The Cyprus News Agency said police secured and executed search warrants at the homes and offices of a number of people, including...
Hurricane Zeta tore across the U.S. South on Thursday with strong winds that left a trail of downed trees, snapped power lines and killed at least three people. The storm brought 110 mile-per-hour (175 km-per-hour) winds to the Louisiana coast and knocked out power to 2.4 million people from Louisiana to North...
A young vulture rescued in Diarizos Valley last month has recuperated and will soon be released back into the wild. The heartwarming news, accompanied by several photographs, was reported by BirdLife Cyprus on its Facebook page. The NGO said now healthy, strong and two kilos heavier, the bird was taken...
Right in the heart of silicon valley, Facebook is cooking up a big new project to expand its Menlo Park campus into what can only be described as a fully-fledged town. Since humble beginnings in Zuckerberg’s Havard dorm room, Facebook HQ has passed through a number of short-lived locations. Rapid...
Greece will impose regional lockdowns on its second-largest city of Thessaloniki and two other regions from Friday after a spike in cases of COVID-19, the government said. The country has recorded significantly lower numbers of COVID-19 than other countries in Europe but cases have been rising rapidly since early October....
The UK government has decided to remove Cyprus from its ‘green’ travel corridor list as of this coming Sunday (from 4am UK time), due to the rise in coronavirus cases. This means that travellers arriving to the UK from Cyprus will need to self-isolate for 14 days. The decision was...
The health ministry announced 211 cases of Covid-19 on Thursday detected from 2,530 tests. Fifty cases were identified through contact tracing, 49 from tests taken on private initiative and six from passenger checks. Total cases now stand at 4,051. More later
Authorities in the north announced they would start using electronic wristbands to monitor people who are supposed to be self-isolating as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, reports said on Thursday. According to Turkish Cypriot media, ‘health minister’ Ali Pilli said that they would be introducing the...
Seaweed is used in more than just sushi. It can be found in almond milk, baby food and lotion. Kelp is used in medicine, animal feed, fertilizer and even as a biofuel. That’s why the commercial seaweed market size could surpass €74 billion by 2026, according to Global Market Insights....
More than 40 per cent of the island’s approximately 3,400 Covid cases were detected over the past 14 days alone, according to figures by the National Surveillance Report which was published on Thursday by the epidemiological surveillance unit of the ministry of health. The figures, which run to October 24, showed the...
Police said Thursday they could neither confirm nor deny whether additional policing measures had been put in place at the French embassy in Nicosia, citing security reasons. A demonstration on Tuesday, which turned violent as a group of protesters destroyed the French flag, has seen Cyprus involved in the global...
A coronavirus strain that emerged in Spain in June has spread across Europe and now makes up a large proportion of infections in several countries, researchers said, highlighting the role of travel in the pandemic and the need to track mutations. The variant, which has not been found to be...
Dozens of women dressed in black gathered outside the Polish embassy on Thursday to protest against an almost-total abortion ban ruling in their home country. The masked protesters, abiding by the social distancing measures, met at 3.30pm outside the embassy on Kennedy Avenue in Nicosia and marched around the building...
The energy ministry will seek to tap millions in EU funds to finance the transition to greener energy, minister Natasa Pilides told the House finance committee on Thursday. Pilides, who was presenting her ministry’s budget for 2020, said that another priority was to ensure that next year’s planned gas exploration...
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Thursday appealed to parliamentary parties to back the 2021 state budget as it constitutes the main weapon for tackling the coronavirus pandemic and for the recovery of the economy following the downturn caused by Covid-19. Petrides was speaking after discussing the 2021 state budget with...
I visited a hospital which had recently joined Gesy due to pain in my shoulder. In no time at all the doctor I saw gave me an injection in the shoulder, no feeling around for the appropriate place, just jab the needle in. After a week I was in pain...
Seb was left to fend for himself from the day he was born. A difficult and dangerous life in the industrial area where he was picked up by the municipality. A 12-18 month old Jura cross now under Humans For Dogs CY ready to find his forever home! For more...
The Cyprus government welcomed the readiness of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to provide his Good Offices mission for the resumption of talks for the solution of the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Thursday. According to Koushos, Guterres, in his reply to a letter sent to him by...
The Bank of Cyprus has seen a loss after tax of €100 million in the second quarter of this year, and a loss of €126 million in the second half of the year, the bank said in a statement on Thursday. Results met analyst forecasts, however. The bank also saw...
Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” but he did not approve of the killing of a French teacher over his use of cartoons of the Prophet. In a blog post Mahathir, 95,...
A Limassol court on Thursday released seven youths arrested during a riot the previous evening after it found no proof linking them to the trouble, which has drawn broad condemnation. The suspects, aged between 15 and 21, were detained at various locations around the town’s main coastal avenue during riots...
The coronavirus pandemic may have taken the sparkle out of Cyprus’ 60th birthday celebrations, but plans are underway to erect a monumental column to mark the occasion. Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou told a press conference on Thursday that the pandemic had forced changes to a number of events planned to...
