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The monthly minimum wage has been set at €940 and will be implemented at the start of the new year, Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos announced. The “historic” move came after Wednesday’...

Face masks will no longer be mandatory from today, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela has announced, citing an improved epidemiological picture. Excluded are places considered high risk, such as hospitals, nursing ...

A 14-year-old boy was found driving a motorcycle without brakes, a driver’s licence and certificate of insurance, Paphos police said on Wednesday. According to police spokesman and head of ...

Emma Raducanu’s US Open title defence ended at the first hurdle with a straight-sets loss to veteran Frenchwoman Alize Cornet. It was a far cry from the events of 12 ...

Crypto projects like Big Eyes (BIG), Binance (BNB), and Thorchain (RUNE) are community-based crypto projects. These crypto projects reward their users for actively participating in activities within the crypto space. ...

Rafael Nadal lost his opening set at the US Open for the first time in his career but was buoyed by his recovery to beat Rinky Hijikata. Nadal is short ...

The Russian government on Tuesday said it approved handing over a 12.5 per cent stake in operator of Russia’s Sakhalin 2 liquefied natural gas plant to Dubai-based MIT SEL Investment Ltd, ...

Police booked 14 businesses in Polis Chrysochous over their lack of liquor, music, and operating licences in the early morning hours on Wednesday. According to Paphos CID chief and police spokesman ...

The energy ministry is offering scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields related to hydrocarbons, renewable energy and energy transition. The scholarship will be valid only for the 2022...

Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the ...

In an unpretentious man with restless energy who is professionally terse, THEO PANAYIDES finds a small business owner struggling to combat the double whammy of the pandemic and rising prices ...

Albanian police on Tuesday arrested the fugitive Turkish founder of crypto-exchange Thodex, wanted by Interpol for suspected crypto fraud and at large for a year, police and media said. Albanian ...

Limassol police on Wednesday said they arrested two people after they found over two kilos of cannabis and a number of cartridges in a house in the district. In total 2 ...

In today’s episode, we hear that a murder case is being investigated by the Police, after the body of a dead foreign woman was found in Nicosia’s Strovolos ...

By Gloria Dickie Worsening droughts, storms and torrential rain in some of the world’s largest economies could cause $5.6 trillion in losses to the global economy by 2050, according to a ...

Nicosia’s favourite jazz venue re-opens this week after a summer break and it has a weekend full of performances in store. To mark its sixth season of concerts, jam ...

Millennials from six European countries, including Cyprus, will work together to promote cultural heritage among younger generations in a new Erasmus+ project. How can the development and understanding of cultural ...

Two people, aged 28 and 34, wanted for church burglaries have been arrested late on Tuesday after the oldest was caught driving without a licence and under the influence of drugs in ...

A 21-year-old woman who attempted to depart the island with a stolen passport has been arrested, police said on Wednesday. The woman arrived at Paphos international airport at around 7.40pm ...

An earthquake hit the island late on Tuesday centred in the sea area of Paphos, the geological survey department of the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. The quake of 4.0 magnitude ...

Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Europe on Wednesday, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospects of recession and energy rationing in ...

Ukrainian troops have attacked Russian positions along the entire front, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Germany citing the need for ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow ...

During the previous week, Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios spoke on two government schemes that seek to bolster Cyprus’ tourism product, with particular focus on the healthcare and wellness ...