Two young musicians are the latest victims added to Cyprus’ road death tally after their vehicle was involved in a collision with a bus on Sunday on the Limassol-Paphos highway. They were on their way to Paphos for a gig at a local tavern when their vehicle hit the guardrail and was struck by a
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Group Investors are eagerly awaiting the next US inflation report due on Wednesday. Rising bond yields and earlier anticipation of stimulus withdrawal dragged US equities lower last week with the S&P 500 posting its worst start to a year since 2016. Tech stocks were dumped as US
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Cyprus reported four more coronavirus deaths on Sunday, as daily cases dropped further to 3,012, but hospitalisations increased to 251 from the previous day, with the number of critical patients also on the up. The health ministry said in its Covid bulletin that the latest victims were three women, aged 53, 78 and 86, and
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Bitcoin could be used as legal tender in three more countries as early as in 2022, following bullish predictions by the President of El Salvador, whose country adopted the cryptocurrency in September, alongside the US dollar. To his 3.2 million followers, Nayib Bukele tweeted a series of predictions about Bitcoin, including “2 more countries will
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Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides resigned Sunday amid speculation he will run for the 2023 presidential elections. “My resignation is the result of a series of events and views, public or otherwise, that have taken place recently and inevitably and unfortunately affect the serious work of the government,” Christodoulides said in a statement. He has
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Under normal circumstances, there is no rational endeavour that should encourage revisiting the diplomatic graveyard of the Cyprus problem so early into another miserable year. We have lived so long with division and lowered expectations that resurrecting a dead peace process killed and buried by the politicians is absent from any New Year wish list.
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The time is ripe for enshrining the right to a healthy environment as a constitutional right. This will be a new right related to the realities of 21st-century living to combat the climate change crisis. It is already a top priority within the EU and cuts across all the policies being pursued by the member
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It’s January again, like last year, people are thinking about how school classes will resume, when will restrictions be lifted for bars and restaurants, what sort of normalcy will return after two years of working from home and being out of touch with loved ones. However, there is a sense of complacency, linked mainly to
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Cyprus reported four coronavirus deaths on Saturday, as daily cases dropped but hospitalisations increased 6% to 244 from the previous day. The death toll rose to 654 after the four latest victims – two men and two women — aged between 63 and 97. The mean age of those who died is 76. An unprecedented
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Crypto exchange platform Coinbase has maintained its dominance in the Bitcoin (BTC) trading market. According to data presented by FinancePR.com, the exchange held a 53% market share after posting over 520,000 BTC transactions in the past month. “The data is indicative of Coinbase’s popularity within the crypto verse, which has continued to grow since its
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