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Russia’s central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory, citing threats to financial stability, citizens’ wellbeing and its monetary policy sovereignty. The ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Recent events have raised concerns as to the government’s ability to handle the serious issues the country is facing. Efforts to cover up the huge responsibilies ...

The tax department and the post office warned the public on Friday about fraudulent messages claiming to have been sent by the authorities. The tax department warned of a text ...

Limassol police reported nearly 500 traffic offences in just 12 hours on Friday as officers stepped up efforts to make the roads safer. According to an announcement, from 6.00 am to 6.00 pm on ...

Police said on Friday that 15 citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had been compulsorily repatriated on an airplane chartered by the Belgian authorities. It said the airplane had ...

The government plans to give residents of mountain communities a one-off grant to help cover rising heating costs as temperatures plunge, deputy government spokeswoman Niovi Parisinou said on Friday. In ...

It is premature to talk about the end of the Covid-19 pandemic this spring as there might be a Delta variant outbreak, a health ministry’s advisor said on Friday. ...

A batch of bottled water was recalled from the market on Friday after the public health service found it to be contaminated with bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginsa during routine market checks. ...

The health ministry on Friday announced three deaths from Covid-19 while 2,192 more people tested positive after 106,444 tests, a positivity rate of 2.06 per cent. All three deaths were from previous days ...

Greek Cypriot head of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage Takis Hadjidemetriou is due to step down from his post, an official announcement said on Friday. Hadjidemetriou communicated his ...

Italy plans to set aside 150 million euros ($169.91 million) to compensate those suffering side effects from COVID-19 vaccinations, a draft decree seen by Reuters showed on Friday. The government plans will ...

The government on Friday lauded parliament for passing a law to protect whistleblowers, which was hailed by MPs as an important step in cracking down on corruption in the public ...

Two exciting productions are coming up in Limassol this month. Taking the stage first is a music-inspired performance called Varka sto Gialo, journeying through the lesser-known life moments of a ...

Minister calls on EU partners to help finance physical barriers along buffer zone Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Friday urged his EU counterparts to support Cyprus’ call for the financing ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday voiced concern over delays in bringing natural gas to Cyprus, asking that the project be stepped up. The issue was discussed with Nicos Castellani, the ...

A total of 67 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Saturday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Germany’s new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified workers from abroad each year to tackle both a demographic imbalance and labour shortages in key sectors that risk undermining the ...

Piraeus Bank (BOPr.AT) has agreed with investment firm Varde Partners to buy its controlling stake in Trastor Real Estate Investment Company for about 98 million euros ($111.04 million), the bank said ...

Britain-based digital banking app Revolut launched commission-free stock trading in the United States on Wednesday, a move that will see it compete with online brokerages such as Robinhood Markets Inc ...

A test to stay programme aimed at allowing children who are coronavirus contacts but not infected with Covid-19 to go to school, kicks off on Monday, with the health ministry ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Friday railed against the reinstatement of the rule giving state officials access to a service car for personal use on a 24-hour basis. “We need to ...

Coronavirus cases started showing a decline, but the disease burden remains high, the health ministry’s epidemiological report showed on Friday. According to the report, prepared by state experts, 46,487 coronavirus ...

In mountainous Yunnan, on the banks of Lugu Lake, is ‘The Kingdom of Women’. Here, the Mosuo tribe are China’s last matrilineal society: women wield the power, passing property ...

Interest in real estate is recovering, both in coastal resorts and in large cities. The start of 2021 has been rather challenging. After the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, the ...