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Police fined eight individuals and six business owners for violating Covid measures in the past 24 hours following 2,194 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, the Police carried out 455 checks, booking two people and ...

Launching an online gallery in the midst of the pandemic was a risk that paid off for one art advisor. Now, for the first time, she’s showcasing a physical ...

President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde will be in Cyprus next week following an invitation from Central Bank Governor Constantinos Herodotou, it was announced on Saturday as ...

By Lauren Taylor For many viewers, it was Santosh Shah who first introduced them to fine dining Nepalese food on MasterChef: The Professionals 2020. But, despite being from Nepal, he had ...

Municipalities, organisations and other bodies will participate in the Earth Hour movement and go dark for one hour on Saturday to spread awareness for the protection of planet. Earth Hour ...

It is “foolish” to believe that Western sanctions against Russian businesses could have any effect on the Moscow government, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev was ...

Chief Scientist and Research and Innovation Foundation president Nikolas Mastroyiannopoulos, during an interview with the Cyprus News Agency earlier this week, revealed that the creation of a national knowledge transfer ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 sparked sweeping sanctions that ripped the country out of the global financial fabric and sent its economy reeling. A month on, Russia’s ...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen began a military operation on Saturday to stop attacks on its oil facilities and “protect global energy sources,” Saudi state media reported. The coalition ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The war in Ukraine and the sanctions will have profound effects on the Russian economy itself, will cause a geopolitical shift, and will certainly have serious macroeconomic ...

Russia was conducting drills on islands claimed by Tokyo, Japanese media said on Saturday, days after Moscow halted peace talks with Japan because of its sanctions over Russia’s invasion ...

China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as ...

The agriculture ministry is working on proposals to support livestock breeders that will go to the cabinet for approval the soonest possible, the ministry said as it welcomed a European ...

A letter, demanding that the twice-yearly exams for lyceums should be scrapped, was sent to the education minister and it was signed by secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek, the confederation ...

The health ministry announced that three people had died of Covid-19 and that 3,329 had tested positive from 45,788 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 7.27 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (24 units) Mall of Cyprus (underground parking area) 9 am – 6 pm 94056785 Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 ...

The retrospective exhibition titled Life in Motion dedicated to the artist Spyros Demetriadis and his 45-year career will be inaugurated on Tuesday, March 29, at 7pm, at the Municipal Arts Centre ...

Lebanese banks will be allowed to sell the local currency for US dollars and vice-versa starting March 28, on the basis of the rate determined by the central bank’s “Sayrafa” ...

HSBC (HSBA.L) is shunning prospective Russian clients and declining credit to some existing ones, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, as the bank seeks to shield ...

President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of trying to cancel Russian culture, including the works of great composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov. At ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Friday he is confident that problems facing Nicosia bus company employees will be resolved at a meeting he, the labour minister and representatives of ...

Germany will look to extend their winning run under coach Hansi Flick when they face Israel and Netherlands in the coming days but the team’s priority is to peak ...

Police have made a second arrest in connection with the discovery of 132 kilos of cannabis in a container at Limassol port earlier this month. They said the arrest of a 61...

A 25-year-old man caught speeding at nearly twice the legal limit on Friday is due in court on Monday, police said. The man was stopped at around 9.25 am on Friday ...