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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said the world’s largest natural gas producer would soon require “unfriendly” countries to pay for their fuel in Russia’s currency, the rouble. ...

Perhaps it was an unconscious decision prompted by the surprisingly vicious cold snap currently gripping the island, an unwitting turn towards familiarity and reliability, but visiting Chesters recently was not ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak faced broad criticism on Thursday for not going far enough to help households through the biggest drop in living standards since the 1950s, despite announcing ...

Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, inflicted “exorbitant” domestic abuse against his ex-wife, a senior British judge has concluded as he awarded her sole responsibility for looking after ...

Lidl Cyprus and the AKTI Project and Research Centre have completed a successful first year of cooperation. The joint efforts launched in the autumn of 2021, with the aim of taking ...

Russia’s stocks jumped on Thursday, the first day of trading in almost a month in the wake of its troops entering Ukraine, with gains in commodity stocks offset by ...

The Tatiana Stupak School of Music is presenting another organ concert at St Catherine’s Church on Limassol’s sea front on March 30 with Stupak on the organ accompanied by ...

Finnair will commence direct flights from Larnaca to Helsinki from April 10 this year, an announcement from the Finnish embassy in Cyprus said Thursday. The Finnish ambassador to Cyprus, Harri Mä...

RCB Bank on Thursday announced that it will cease operating as a bank and would become an asset management company. The bank cited the “ongoing and extremely volatile geopolitical situation” ...

Next month will see Cyta offer a free upgrade of all RED and FREEDOM plans, improving the daily lives of its 180,000 customers. As of April 1, all such packages will get ...

Cyprus will on Friday celebrate Greek Independence Day with schoolchildren taking part in parades in all towns. March 25, which also is a public holiday in Cyprus, commemorates the start of ...

A total of 37 free rapid testing sites will operate around the republic on Friday, the health ministry announced. Aside from any medical certificates exempting them from vaccination/entitling them to ...

Russia’s ambassador to Warsaw said on Thursday that Poland had blocked the Russian embassy’s bank accounts on the basis that they might be used to finance terrorist activity ...

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s 2022 spring statement was delivered in the haze of an extremely testing economic environment. As the war in Ukraine rages on, inflation has hit a 30-year ...

Nicosia bus employees returned to work on Thursday, after they temporarily called off their indefinite strike which started last week. The decision to suspend the strike was announced after a ...

The penultimate round of the South American World Cup qualifiers takes place on Thursday and five teams are still in with a chance of joining Brazil and Argentina at the ...

Italian tax police have seized documents as part of a Turin prosecutors probe of allegations of false accounting at Italian Serie A football club Juventus JUVE.MI, a source with ...

Genome sequencing group Illumina (ILMN.O) on Tuesday launched a cancer test in Europe that checks for a wide range of tumour genes in one tissue sample, potentially helping patients ...

Collaborative robots are the new hotness in industrial automation. Manufacturers in virtually every industry are eager to try them out on the plant floor, but there are a few things ...

Despite the Cyprus legal framework providing extensive protection from discrimination on the basis of a person’s race and ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, disability, sexual orientation, gender ...

By Tom Wingfield and Jessica Potter, In recent years, conflicts in Ethiopia, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen have caused huge suffering. They have devastated the health and wellbeing of local populations ...

Western leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday will agree to strengthen their forces in Eastern Europe and increase military aid to Ukraine as the Russian assault on its neighbour entered ...

Cyta and DeeJay Radio partnered up to acquire 40 tablets for the Nicosia municipality, which will donate them to the children at the Nicosia Municipal Multipurpose Centre, according to an announcement ...

By Abi Jackson As tempting as it was to hope the pandemic would suddenly disappear – taking all the grief and angst of the past two years with it – that’s ...