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By Andria Kades and Iole Damaskinos Fuel subsidies will be scrapped but electricity bill subsidies will continue albeit more targeted towards vulnerable groups, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. The measure ...

Limassol-based broker Freedom Finance Europe this week announced that it served as a general partner of the recently-held Cyprus-Kazakhstan Business Forum, which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on June 21. The ...

Following the attorney-general’s announcement that no evidence of criminal wrongdoing has come up in the case of the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, his mother Andriana said they ...

All necessary disciplinary proceedings will be carried out against an inmate who falsely claimed to have swallowed four blades, the prison department announced on Wednesday. The prisoner allegedly went up ...

Leaving everything you own to a multi-millionaire footballer would not be everyone’s idea of a good cause, but one Brazilian fan could not think of a more deserving recipient ...

European Central Bank policymakers don’t generally expect evidence that stubborn inflation is easing to be clear enough for them to pause the longest streak of interest rate hikes in ...

The cryptocurrency industry has been experiencing significant upward momentum recently, with Bitcoin leading the charge. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has reached a remarkable milestone as its ...

Rapper Stormzy has teamed up with Crystal Palace striker Wilfried Zaha to buy ninth-tier English soccer side Croydon Athletic, the club said on Tuesday. Zaha was born in the Ivory ...

Cyprus and Greece conducted a joint search and rescue exercise codenamed ‘Salamis’ within the island’s area on Tuesday. The Greek ship ‘Psara’, a helicopter from the 460th Search and ...

Eid al-Adha, one of the two major festivals in the Muslim calendar, began on Wednesday, with Muslims across Cyprus partaking in the celebrations. The festival, known as the Kurban Bayrami ...

One in seven people in the United Kingdom faced hunger last year because they did not have enough money, according to a report published on Wednesday by food bank charity ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to “wipe out” mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in response to what the Kremlin cast as a mutiny that ...

Wall Street banks and brokerages are in a last-minute scramble to meet a July 3 deadline to charge investors for research reports, bankers and others in the industry said, a requirement ...

In the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrencies, investors are always on the lookout for the next big thing. With the upcoming presale of Collateral Network’s COLT token and the recent ...

The force behind AfroBanana tells THEO PANAYIDES how he was named after his grandpa and, through a life of chaos and interaction, is best known for creating narratives on the ...

By Daniel Prince Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of humans, invoking images of ...

South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting age took effect, replacing the country’s traditional ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday is headed to Brussels for the two-day European Union Summit. The final text of the summit conclusion is expected to make reference on the readiness ...

Neapolis University Pafos received the General Service Award at the Cyprus Export Awards 2021, which took place successfully earlier this month. President Nikos Christodoulides presented the award to President of Neapolis ...

Wildfires burning through large swathes of eastern and western Canada have released a record 160 million tonnes of carbon, the EU’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service said on Tuesday. This year’...

Four days of party music are coming up as the annual Loud Music Festival, or LMF, returns. Besides bringing with it new artists, performances, DJs and stages, the festival moves ...

In today’s episode, with tankers blocking central roads in Nicosia, the association of petrol station owners on Tuesday protested unfair competition from illegal imports of fuel from the north ...

The phenomenon of ‘brain drain’ may not be as dire in Cyprus as in other countries but it is concerning, according to House speaker Annita Demetriou. Speaking at the University ...

Anticipated changes to electricity and fuel subsidies are expected to be announced on Wednesday following the meeting of the council of ministers. “Fiscal responsibility requires for the state to not ...