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Eligible students at Cyprus-based universities to get €500 living allowance amidst a price hike in rents and a shortage of student accommodations, cabinet decided on Wednesday. Students attending international universities will ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris will discuss the instrumentalisation of migrants and the optimisation of their return procedures during the EU interior ministers’ council this week. Nouris travelled to Brussels on ...

Strict scrutiny is welcomed and appreciated, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday upon receiving the annual report by the Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides. Handing the report for 2021, the AG said ...

It looked like a cross between a crocodile and a salamander – and definitely was not an animal to be messed with. Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of ...

A 42-year-old man was jailed for seven months on Wednesday for stealing construction materials from an erected building in Paphos earlier this year. Paphos district court imposed the seven-month prison ...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has hailed the group stage of the Qatar World Cup as the “best ever” and said the number of upsets and geographic breadth of the teams ...

Russia’s ally Belarus said on Wednesday it was moving troops and military hardware to counteract what it called a threat of terrorism, amid signs Moscow could be putting pressure ...

Deputy Minister of Culture Yiannis Toumazis on Tuesday underlined the impact of Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva on young artists on the island during the opening of a new retrospective exhibition ...

A sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according ...

A Welsh-Cypriot woman has looked into the life of the famous writer and the time she spent on the island preparing Rebecca finds PAUL LAMBIS In July 2021, Cypriot-Welsh author Helen ...

By Naja Later There’s always been something queer about vampires. Vampire stories are traditionally rife with dark desires and invisible secrets from their early canonisation in popular culture. But ...

The Council of Ministers approved a law amendment proposal by the transport ministry requiring that all car crashes be logged in the road transport department database in order to prevent ...

At least 441 civilians were killed by Russian forces in the early days of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday, documenting summary executions ...

The sports ethics committee on Wednesday fully accepted the findings of a report on game fixing within basketball and will be forwarding the case to the attorney-general’s office for ...

Global ratings agency Fitch this week announced that it has upgraded the Bank of Cyprus’ Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘B+’ from ‘B-‘ and Viability Rating (VR) to ‘b+’ ...

ZIKZAK Architects mark the successful completion of a project in Limassol undertaken on behalf of an international IT company. The architectural firm designed a new façade for the building ...

The Commission for the Protection of Competition has decided to investigate possible violations of the law on competition by the Cyprus Medical Association (CMA), for urging its members not to ...

Deputies from the Green Party and Elam on Wednesday said they would not be voting in favour of the 2023 state budget as the second day of discussions unfolded. So far ...

FTX founder and former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, head of its now-defunct trading affiliate, have tapped defense attorneys as US authorities probe the crypto exchange’s collapse, ...

Two people were arrested under suspicion of attempting to deal crystal meth, Paphos police said on Wednesday. According to police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, police received an anonymous tip at 7.45 am ...

Everybody knows that tall, green-coloured creature known as Frankenstein. He has been portrayed thousands of times, sometimes as an evil monster, others as a kind-hearted soul with a tough, expressionless ...

Turkey’s MNG Airlines will list on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Golden Falcon Acquisition Corp (GFX.N), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the Turkish ...

Parents and students from two schools in Limassol have given the education ministry an ultimatum: respond to our requests over exams by Friday or we will shut down the schools. ...

British house prices slid last month by the most since the global financial crisis as the slowdown in the housing market intensified, mortgage lender Halifax said on Wednesday. House prices ...