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Come warmer weather and the island’s music world kicks festivities up a notch. With the first signs of spring and summer, though delayed this year, annual festivals, concerts and ...

A 63-year-old man died from coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Monday as another 5,286 new infections were detected from 114,066 tests, a positivity rate of 4.63 per cent. The new death was ...

Vegetable producers said on Monday that the rise in prices is primarily down to supply shortages imposed by the persistently bad weather of the past three months. “The weather has ...

Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars ...

A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta FB.O was guilty of “extremist activity”, but the ruling will not affect its WhatsApp messenger service, focusing on the U.S. ...

The dream turned into a nightmare for Formula One world champion Max Verstappen in Bahrain on Sunday when Red Bull’s challenge for victory in the season-opening race ended in ...

The ‘day after’ for ties between the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Greece, with an emphasis on trade and investments, were the main focus of the Economist’s Sixth London Business ...

By Constantinos Tsindas and Elias Hazou There was still no reaction on Monday following the public endorsement of Averof Neophytou by President Nicos Anastasiades at a raucous Disy conference on ...

On March 21, marking the International Day of Forests, Unilever Tseriotis Cyprus and Alphamega Hypermarkets held a press conference announcing a new initiative supporting the Cyprus Forest Association. Via this drive, ...

No further relaxations of the coronavirus measures are expected, a health ministry official said after members of the scientific advisory committee evaluated the current epidemiological picture in Cyprus with Health ...

A local charity has donated over €200,000 to expand and renovate the state Makarios children hospital, which included the new operating theatre inaugurated Monday by the health minister. The operating theatre ...

As many as 1.08 million people in England could be borrowing from a loan shark, more than three times the government’s most recent estimate, according to a report by a ...

By Prudence Wade A new season means fresh jewellery trends to get excited about. Much like the rest of fashion, everything to do with the Noughties is back with a ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides send a message of solidarity to all refugees on Monday, to mark the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination. In a written statement, Lottides ...

ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum, consortium partners in Block 10 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone have found “high-quality natural gas” in the ‘Glaucus-2’ appraisal well, the energy ministry said Monday. In a ...

Cyprus’ fourth largest reservoir, at Kannaviou in Paphos, overflowed on Sunday morning, the community council president Abraham Abraham announced. The reservoir has a capacity of 17 million 168 thousand cubic metres and ...

The amount of money linked to housing schemes for residents in mountain and remote communities has been tripled while criteria have been relaxed to make more communities eligible, Interior Minister ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

A photography exhibition by Nico Carpentier arriving soon in Nicosia is an arts-based research project that investigates how the memorials on the island of Cyprus provide manifestations, among others, of ...

Sheep and goat farmers headed to Nicosia on Monday to protest surging grain prices and demand protection of the halloumi PDO. The protest was organised by three agricultural organisations Pek, ...

Small and self-produced, zines have taken the world by storm. An ongoing exhibition is a window on a library of them that has been created in Cyprus. ELENI PHILIPPOU finds ...

The global Financial Stability Board is closely scrutinising the use of cryptoassets during the war in Ukraine after concerns they could be used to evade Western sanctions on Russia. The ...

A Turkish court ruled on Monday that philanthropist Osman Kavala should stay in prison for at least another month as lawyers prepare their final statements in a trial which has ...

Egypt’s pound depreciated by 10.67 per cent on Monday after weeks of pressure on the currency as foreign investors pulled out billions of dollars from its treasury markets after Russia’...