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Russia’s financial system would be able to cope even if it was disconnected from the SWIFT global interbank payments system, the head of the country’s second-largest lender VTB ...

Animal welfare is among the government’s priorities, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday in his address at the fourth annual conference of the Animal Party. The well-being of animals ...

Manchester City secured the Christmas number one spot with a 4-0 demolition of Newcastle at St James’ Park. Pep Guardiola’s side recorded an eighth straight Premier League win and ...

One death and 448 new Covid-19 cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. The death concerns an 87-year-old man who died on Saturday at the Nicosia general hospital. This ...

ExxonMobil considers the East Med a promising hydrocarbon basin By Charles Ellinas With Covid-19 resurging, Cyprus’ EEZ is back in the limelight. ExxonMobil is about to start drilling in block 10, ...

By Tuvan Gumrukcu President Tayyip Erdogan said he had lowered Turkey’s inflation to around 4% before and that he will achieve that again soon as annual price rises exceeded 21% due ...

By Conor Humphries A European Commissioner said on Sunday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s refusal to compromise on Brexit was “untenable” and called on him not to let ...

Ancient trees and ancient skills live on in a very special Paphos village By Paul Lambis The village of Salamiou is a living museum that presents a rich historical and ...

By Gwynne Dyer The “new normal”, said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market ...

By Kylie MacLellan Britain’s health minister Sajid Javid declined on Sunday to rule out the chance of further COVID-19 restrictions before Christmas, saying the spread of the Omicron variant ...

Restrictions no longer a red or green affair but a multi-coloured spectrum By Nick Theodoulou Are you green, purple, blue, yellow-orange, or red? It’s not some elaborate party trick, ...

Shopping streets in the Netherlands were closed and people’s Christmas plans were in disarray as the country began a lockdown on Sunday aimed at limiting an expected COVID-19 surge ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides We have arrived, yet again, at Christmas, which we will celebrate next Saturday. At Christmas, we recall the innocence of the newborn baby, we launch a ...

By Enrico Dela Cruz The death toll in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Rai has risen to 208, after the storm carved a trail of destruction in central and southern provinces ...

A 26-year-old man from Britain who was a permanent resident of Cyprus died earlier on Sunday in a road accident in Paphos. Police said they were investigating the conditions of ...

Government inefficiency, corruption and bad policies based on ignoring the huge amount of debt will come back to bite us By Les Manison Research articles contend that the quality of ...

No major problems were reported so far on Sunday due to Storm Carmel with authorities urging motorists to be alert due to excess water on the roads. Police in the ...

Police on Sunday said they arrested a 35-year-old man in Limassol for the possession of and transport of explosives, hurling threats, intoxication, assaulting an officer, causing bodily harm and resisting ...

An events planner was fined €8,000 for violations of the measures against the spread of Covid-19, police said on Sunday. The case concerns an organiser of a private company event in ...

Muslim nations sought to respond to the growing economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as neighbouring Pakistan opened an extraordinary meeting on Sunday of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. The ...

By Sonali Paul An 11-year-old boy died on Sunday from a jumping castle accident four days ago in Australia’s island state Tasmania, taking the death toll from the tragedy ...

A 74-year-old man who confessed to killing his wife, 75, on Saturday evening in their home in Tremithousa in Paphos, was remanded on Sunday for eight days. The remand hearing took ...

Unless the Premier League fixture list is further decimated by the COVID-19 surge that has ripped the pre-Christmas schedule to shreds the three-way title race will continue on Sunday with ...

A total of 22 free rapid test mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Monday, for eligible groups, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has ...