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Police on Thursday said they have fined five individuals for violating coronavirus measures after 1,503 checks over the last 24 hours. Two people were booked in Larnaca after 309 inspections, one in Paphos ...

Hackers have stolen cryptocurrency worth almost $615 million from a blockchain project linked to popular online game Axie Infinity, the latest cyberheist to hit the digital asset sector. Ronin, a blockchain ...

Oil prices dived more than $5 a barrel on Thursday as the United States is considering the release of up to 180 million barrels from its strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) over several ...

The Kremlin indicated on Wednesday that all of Russia’s energy and commodity exports could be priced in roubles, toughening President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to make the West feel ...

A US judge ruled on Tuesday that a lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc’s (FB.O) Facebook of deceiving advertisers about its “potential reach” tool can proceed as a class ...

Cypriot telecommunications company Cyta on Wednesday announced the start of operations on the Arsinoe optical fibre subsea cable system. “Arsinoe strengthens the role of the organisation and, by extension, Cyprus ...

The possibility of re-establishing the anti-poaching unit was discussed by the House environment committee after it was dismantled in 2019 with some MPs saying incidences had increased since it was abolished. ...

Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), gave a thorough analysis of the problems facing the euro area as a consequence of the Russia-Ukraine war that came ...

Hollywood star Bruce Willis will retire from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia, a disease that is “impacting his cognitive abilities,” his family said in a statement on ...

A 62-year-old man died on Wednesday after being crushed by his tractor, police said. The victim, Fotis Stavrou, had been operating his tractor in a field in the Ayios Georgios ...

Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, a day after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed ...

Fifty unaccompanied minors were transferred on Wednesday from Pournara migrant reception centre to an apartment complex in Pervolia, Larnaca, with 100 more expected to reach Paphos in the next few days. ...

FIFA officials will look to put aside division and controversy and turn the focus to this year’s World Cup finals when they hold their annual congress in the Qatari ...

Although most of the 370 employees of RCB bank are set to be made redundant once its transformation into an asset management company is completed, there is uncertainty about when and ...

Russian hackers have recently attempted to penetrate the networks of NATO and the militaries of some eastern European countries, Google’s Threat Analysis Group said in a report published on ...

Akel MP Irini Charalambides was in the US this week as part of a delegation from the parliamentary assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA), ...

The health ministry announced one death and 4,774 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. The new death was of an 84-year-old woman, bringing the total death toll to 933. There are 182 people ...

The health ministry on Wednesday said it was working with Gesy operator Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) to solve several issues within the national health scheme, which were pointed out earlier ...

A teenager has been jailed for six weeks for racially abusing Marcus Rashford on Twitter after the Euro 2020 final, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. Justin Lee Price, 19, of Grandison ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was misled by advisers who were too scared to tell him how poorly the war in Ukraine is going and how damaging Western sanctions have been, ...

Former motor racing boss and privacy campaigner Max Mosley died of a gunshot wound in the bedroom of his London home last May after being told his cancer was terminal, ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill giving trade and energy minister Natasa Pilides the power set a maximum gross profit margin for traders in an attempt to stem price ...

Twice as many Russians are optimistic about the future now, a month into Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine, as at the end of December, according to an opinion poll ...

As another long weekend arrives, the musicians of the island gather for more entertaining evenings of live music. Limassol’s quaint little bar Vinylio Wine Etc has more musical nights ...