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Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides expressed Cyprus’ support for EU measures agreed with his counterparts on Sunday night to close airspace to Russian planes and target measures through the global payments ...

The European Union will tighten sanctions on Russia, target Russian ally Belarus with measures and fund weapons for Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia’s invasion, top EU ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,387 had tested positive from 93,207 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.49 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

In the aftermath of this crisis Europe will be even more determined to accelerate transition to renewables and clean energy The unthinkable, and probably illogical, happened. Russia has finally invaded ...

Amid a European shortage of film studios, one man plans to make Cyprus a studio hub The film and TV industry is notorious – especially in Cyprus – for grandiose projects that ...

Speaker of the British House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle has told the Cyprus Mail that he hopes the Cyprus government would reconsider its decision to stop British residents from ...

Russians and Ukrainians in Cyprus speak out Ukrainian residents in Cyprus are now desperately worried about what the future holds for their family members and friends living back home, following ...

While the fighting was raging in Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov urged Ukrainians to get rid of their oppressive government. Russia had no plans to occupy Ukraine or ...

THE LOCAL children of Mother Russia had their world turned upside down over the last week when the country they so lavishly praised for its supposed principled stand on the ...

Four deaths from Covid were announced on Saturday in addition to 1,606 new cases. The deaths bring to 852 the total since the start of the pandemic. They relate to two men, ...

The results of the twice yearly exams in high schools, which were similar to previous years, contradict reports they were a debacle, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Saturday during ...

Cyprus did not oppose any EU sanctions against Russia, the finance ministry said on Saturday, responding to reports in local and international media suggesting the island was among the EU ...

Hospitals and health centres registered in the national health scheme will be upgraded with 42 major development projects amounting to €52 million, state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Friday. The projects, ...

The biggest enemy of any country’s tourism industry is uncertainty, whether it be political, financial, or more recently a health crisis. Apart from three successive record years, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Cyprus ...

The health ministry on Friday announced 1,826 new coronavirus infections which resulted from 113,253 tests, a positivity rate of 1.61 per cent. Earlier the health ministry had announced seven additional coronavirus related deaths, ...

The impact of the war in Ukraine on an economy already struggling with rising prices was at the focus of a meeting on Friday between the leaderships of left-wing Akel ...

Fuel, cash and medical supplies are running low in parts of Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, which could drive up to 5 million people to flee abroad, U.N. aid agencies ...

European Union foreign ministers will thrash out details on Friday of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine after leaders of the bloc agreed on a robust package of ...

By Michele Kambas and James Pearson A 24-year-old videogame designer who runs his small business out of a home next to an old Cypriot church in a quiet suburb of ...

Missiles pounded the Ukrainian capital on Friday as Russian forces pressed their advance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded with the international community to do more, saying sanctions announced so ...

By Yiannis Seitanidis The threat of severe economic sanctions was not enough to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the package of massive and severe sanctions is the EU’...

President Vladimir Putin “must and will fail,” top European Union leaders said on Friday as they agreed new sanctions over his invasion of Ukraine, saying he was trying to bring ...

A squabble broke out in parliament on Thursday over the high cost of electricity in Cyprus that are choking the public, with the opposition blaming the administration for ineptitude and ...

President Vladimir Putin described it as a ‘special military operation’ in the televised address announcing the start of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but it was a full-scale invasion. Putin ...