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Scientists no longer dismissive of Deltacron

Scientists no longer dismissive of Deltacron

Scientists are no longer dismissive of Deltacron, a merger of two coronavirus variants first pointed out by a Cypriot scientist, with British media reporting on a strain that appears after all to have evolved in someone who caught both at the same time...

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US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade

US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade

The Biden administration urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Thursday to use its federal powers to end the truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, as the bumper-to-bumper demonstration forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production....

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Parents told to look out for MIS-C in children with prior infection to Covid-19

Parents told to look out for MIS-C in children with prior infection to Covid-19

Parents have been advised to be on the lookout for symptoms that may be due to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with Covid-19 and which usually appears 4-6 weeks after coronavirus infection....

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UK Speaker of the House of Commons to visit Cyprus on Monday

UK Speaker of the House of Commons to visit Cyprus on Monday

Speaker of the House of Commons of the UK, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, begins a three-day official visit to Cyprus on Monday, at the invitation of the President of the House of Representatives Annita Demetriou....

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Cyprus and USA sign Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement

Cyprus and USA sign Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement

Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos and US Ambassador to Cyprus Judith Garber signed on Friday a Cooperation Agreement on Science and Technology between Cyprus and the United States, on the occasion of the International Women and Girls in Science Day....

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Brothers deny charges in murders of Russian women

Brothers deny charges in murders of Russian women

Two brothers who are facing charges in the double murder of two Russian women in Cyprus pleaded not guilty on Friday, after both admitted being at the cottage where the bodies were found in December but denied being involved in murder or conspiracy...

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Cyprus feels the need to transform shipping into a low carbon industry, says President

Cyprus feels the need to transform shipping into a low carbon industry, says President

As a leading maritime nation, Cyprus feels responsible to accelerate the transition of shipping to a low carbon and climate-resilient industry, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday, addressing the One Ocean Summit taking place in Brest, under the aegis of the EU French Presidency....

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8 special ways to celebrate Valentine's Day

8 special ways to celebrate Valentine's Day

Love means never having to say you're sorry, especially on Valentine's Day when expectations are high!...

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Anastasiades asks for EU's contribution to confidence-building measures

Anastasiades asks for EU's contribution to confidence-building measures

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday briefed the European Council President Charles Michel on efforts to resume the Cyprus peace talks and asked for the EU`s contribution to confidence-building measures (CBM)....

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Nicos Anastasiades and John Kerry discuss climate crisis and Cyprus problem

Nicos Anastasiades and John Kerry discuss climate crisis and Cyprus problem

The climate crisis and developments in the Cyprus problem were the focus of a meeting which Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, had on Friday with the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, just before the beginning of the "One Ocean" Summit held in Brest, France....

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Macron refused Russian COVID test in Putin trip over DNA theft fears - sources

Macron refused Russian COVID test in Putin trip over DNA theft fears - sources

French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, to prevent Russia from getting hold of Macron's DNA, two sources in Macron's entourage told Reuters....

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Wars over imported damaged vehicles get ugly in Cyprus

Wars over imported damaged vehicles get ugly in Cyprus

Cyprus police have been keeping on the down low an investigation into alleged irregularities involving imported damaged vehicles, with reports saying a state employee’s vehicle was torched after he blew the whistle on a suspected illegal network amid government efforts to take lemons off the street...

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Op-ed: 'Russia may annex one-third of Ukraine'

Op-ed: 'Russia may annex one-third of Ukraine'

He knows Russia and Ukraine pretty well as he served as US ambassador to NATO in 2008-09 and US representative for Ukraine negotiations in 2017-19. ...

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GESY: €1.21 billion in expenses from 920,000 beneficiaries in 2021

GESY: €1.21 billion in expenses from 920,000 beneficiaries in 2021

Total expenses for services from the General Healthcare System (GHS) in Cyprus came to €1.21 billion in 2021, from approximately 920,000 beneficiaries, Senior Officer of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) Angelos Tropis told CNA, adding that based on the preliminary results, the 2021 expenses will approximately be equal to total revenue. ...

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Driver boyfriend pleads guilty to reckless homicide

Driver boyfriend pleads guilty to reckless homicide

A young man, whose pregnant girlfriend was killed in 2020 after he crashed their car in rural Limassol, has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide after the attorney general suspended prosecution on manslaughter and ordered the case retried on lesser charges...

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Lawyer raises red flag in foukou drug case

Lawyer raises red flag in foukou drug case

A Greek Cypriot businessman whose cooperation with authorities led to a plea deal in connection with 628 kilos of ecstasy hidden in foukou barbeques has been set free, with the attorney of a warehouse associate who got 23 years in the same case taking the matter to the Supreme Court citing unfair treatment...

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Greece rejects Turkish demand for demilitarization of islands

Greece rejects Turkish demand for demilitarization of islands

Greece rejected on Thursday Turkey’s latest demand to demilitarize its islands, saying they “go beyond simple logic.”...

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Turkish opposition leader refuses to pay power bill in protest

Turkish opposition leader refuses to pay power bill in protest

Turkey’s main opposition leader said he will not pay his power bills until Tayyip Erdogan withdraws recent price hikes, and the president’s ruling party slammed the move on Thursday as a provocation amid growing discontent over surging inflation....

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Pournara: An attempted murder in the midst of chaos

Pournara: An attempted murder in the midst of chaos

Clashes between immigrant groups in the Pournara Immigrant Center in Kokkinotrimithia in the last 2 days have resulted in the hospitalization of a 17-year-old boy at the Nicosia General Hospital and 35 people injured....

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Russia holds drills in Belarus as West warns of 'dangerous moment'

Russia holds drills in Belarus as West warns of 'dangerous moment'

Britain said on Thursday the West could face the "most dangerous moment" in its standoff with Moscow in the next few days, as Russia held military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea following its troop buildup near Ukraine....

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Nasal spray could be the future of the COVID vaccine

Nasal spray could be the future of the COVID vaccine

When we think about COVID vaccines, most of us picture a pointy needle — and some of us might even faint. But what if getting vaccinated was as easy as inhaling a nasal spray?...

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Prince Charles tests positive for Covid for second time

Prince Charles tests positive for Covid for second time

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time and is now self-isolating, Clarence House has said on Twitter....

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Greek comedian gets suspended sentence for online sex videos

Greek comedian gets suspended sentence for online sex videos

A Greek TV comedian was given a suspended prison sentence Wednesday after being convicted of posting on the internet sex videos of his former partner without her consent, a case that prompted a public debate on online privacy abuses....

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Cyprus-France aeronautical exercise 'TALOS 2022' postponed to Monday

Cyprus-France aeronautical exercise 'TALOS 2022' postponed to Monday

Cyprus-France aeronautical exercise "TALOS 2022" will take place on Monday, February 14, Cyprus Defence Ministry announced on Thursday....

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Kamila Valieva: Russian star at center of doping controversy, reports say

Kamila Valieva: Russian star at center of doping controversy, reports say

The International Olympic Committee has refused to comment on whether the athlete at the center of a doping controversy at Beijing 2022 is the 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, despite the teenager being named in multiple reports around the world....

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Building permits up by 15.9% in first eleven months of 2021

Building permits up by 15.9% in first eleven months of 2021

The building permits issued in Cyprus in the first eleven months of 2021 were up annually by 15.9%, data released by the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) on Thursday show....

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Cyprus categorized as a 'flawed democracy' according to a report in The Economist

Cyprus categorized as a 'flawed democracy' according to a report in The Economist

Cyprus not only remains in the category of a "flawed democracy", in The Economist's Democracy Index but ranked worse in 2021 compared to 2020. ...

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Possible relaxation of measures next week, says Minister of Health

Possible relaxation of measures next week, says Minister of Health

Possible relaxation of measures will depend on the Scientific Advisory Committee, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela told CNA on Thursday and added that the number of cases and the decrease in hospitalizations have stabilized while the next few days are expected to bring better results....

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Seven arrested over dozens of deaths in Cretan nursing home

Seven arrested over dozens of deaths in Cretan nursing home

Police on Crete arrested seven people on Wednesday in relation to the deaths of dozens of people in a private nursing home in Hania....

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French jets fly over Cyprus after Macron-Putin chat

French jets fly over Cyprus after Macron-Putin chat

French fighter jets taking off Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean are flying over Cyprus this week in a demonstration of NATO power, with Russian ships also in the area just days after Putin and Macron met to discuss Ukraine...

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Greek business wave in Cyprus seeks stronger voice
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Greek business wave in Cyprus seeks stronger voice

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