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Italy missed out on the World Cup finals again after losing 1-0 at home to North Macedonia in their playoff semi-final on Thursday as Aleksandar Trajkovski’s last-gasp strike earned ...

Leaders from some European Union member states said on Thursday Russia’s demand that “unfriendly” countries use roubles to buy for its oil and gas could breach supply contracts. President ...

Supermarkets in the north were emptied of alcohol after news hit of a big price hike to be slapped on them through increased taxation. Some shop owners pre-emptively took bottles ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Thursday said he is planning to address an urgent letter to the Council of Europe with evidence showing mass migration flows to Cyprus through Turkey ...

The health ministry announced that there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 and that 5,186 had tested positive from 103,263 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 5.02 per cent. The ...

Audience reception of Alpha Square’s latest production at the AG Leventis Gallery have been exceptionally warm with extra stageings of Jules Tasca’s Live Drawing: A Portrait of the ...

Supermarket chains in Greece said on Thursday they are restricting how much flour and sunflower oil customers can buy, saying the step was precautionary after seeing demand rise on worries ...

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) has announced that it will be offering scholarships to Ukrainian students seeking asylum due to the Russian invasion of their country. Ten undergraduate scholarships ...

Western leaders agreed on Wednesday to strengthen their forces on Europe’s eastern flank, increase military aid to Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia whose invasion and bombardment of its ...

Substitute Kaoru Mitoma scored twice in the final few minutes to give Japan a 2-0 win over Australia at a rain-soaked Olympic Stadium on Thursday and send his country through ...

Cyprus is the only European country that does not have a university teaching hospital and this is to the detriment of both the academic and medical communities, MPs heard on ...

Pope Francis on Thursday criticised increased defence spending by Western nations following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as ‘madness’ and said a new way must be found to balance world ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) on Thursday asked the health ministry to lift all coronavirus measures, saying that other countries were doing this and because businesses cannot take much ...

The House audit committee on Thursday addressed a recent auditor-general report on the judicial service, which covered a range of subjects including cuts to judges’ salaries, building and evidence security, ...

A Crimean official has said that Ukrainians living under Russian military control have begun to reject the Ukrainian currency in favour of Russian roubles, and “feel at home once more ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is in Brussels for the European Council Thursday and Friday where EU leaders are expected to discuss the situation in Ukraine, and also with US President Joe ...

By Yiannis Seitanides RCB Bank’s coordinated exit from the financial markets has entered the final stretch, with the supervisory authorities in Nicosia and Frankfurt managing a situation that could ...

An appeals court on Thursday will debate whether a congressional committee can obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the U.S. Treasury Department, the latest face-off in ...

Britain sanctioned another wave of Russia’s banks, critical industries and a host of members of its elite on Thursday, including Gazprombank, Alfa Bank, and a woman they said was ...

NATO warned against Russia’s war in Ukraine sliding into a nuclear confrontation between Moscow and the West. “Russia should stop this dangerous irresponsible nuclear rhetoric,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg ...

Neuroscientist Semir Zeki, Professor at University College London and Fellow of the Royal Society, will present a public lecture at European University Cyprus (EUC) on March 31. The internationally-acclaimed academic will ...

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 ...