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Oil prices rose on Tuesday, with Brent surging past $127 a barrel, as the possibility of formal US sanctions against Russian oil exports spurred concerns about oversupply. Benchmark Brent crude futures ...

By Cheng Chen and Cole Burton We have entered what some scientists refer to as Earth’s sixth major extinction. Human disturbances, such as over-harvesting of crops, habitat destruction and ...

When Russian actor Jean-Michel Scherbak wrote on social media that he was ashamed his country had started a war in Ukraine, his mother, a longtime supporter of Russian President Vladimir ...

Bitcoin’s been known to freak out when Elon Musk tweets a broken-heart emoji. So why isn’t it flying off the handle as we seem to stand on the ...

Around 50 migrants staying at the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia took to the highway to protest the living conditions at the centre on Tuesday, blocking traffic in both directions. Drivers ...

Palladium attempted to consolidate off an all-time peak in volatile trading on Tuesday as the Russia-Ukraine crisis fuelled worries of a supply squeeze of the metal, while safe-haven gold also ...

Lidl Plus is celebrating its first year of operation with a big weekly competition, running till April 23, 2022, which will reward 10 lucky Lidl Plus app users with prizes of total value €35,000. ...

Coinciding with International Women’s Day, the UK government said it was supporting the visit of Cypriot authorities to Glasgow to undertake training on best-practice in the handling of rape ...

The government will buy 36,000 tons of barley and corn, in two shipments, to ease a shortage of grains on the market in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ...

Shell stopped buying Russian crude on Tuesday and said it would phase out its involvement in all Russian hydrocarbons from oil to natural gas over Ukraine, becoming one of the ...

By Steve Holland and Pavel Polityuk The Ukrainian government on Tuesday accused Russian forces of shelling a humanitarian corridor that Moscow had promised to open to let residents flee the ...

A play reading this week aims to bring the audience closer to the famous portrait of Mona Lisa. ELENI PHILIPPOU speaks to the person behind it It is among the ...

Eurostat’s data on gender equality for the decade 2010-2020 reveal that while women have earned less per hour than their male counterparts, the difference in average wages between men ...

More Cypriot women than their EU counterparts say they were impacted financially and psychologically by the pandemic, according to an extraordinary Eurobarometer carried out ahead of Women’s Day 2022. Citing ...

The free rapid test sites for eligible groups for Wednesday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (30 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 99742888 Agios Dometios Municipality (...

The cost of renovating the facades of the buildings on Larnaca’s Piale Pasha has risen to €1 million, according to the town’s mayor Andreas Vyras. Vyras told the Cyprus ...

The European Commission has prepared a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian ...

A merchant ship carrying fourteen 40-foot containers of food and medical aid for Ukraine was leaving Cyprus on Tuesday after what was described as the biggest humanitarian drive ever on ...

As of Tuesday, March 8, virus-positive individuals may be released on day seven, provided that they have a negative rapid antigen test result from predefined points indicated by the Ministry of ...

Iran will not back down on its red lines in the nuclear talks with Western powers, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. “The government ...

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President of the Cyprus Addiction Treatment Authority (AAEK), Dr. Christos Mina, has said that in 2020, 147 women sought treatment in Cyprus for addiction to illegal drugs. Mina noted that almost half ...

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that attacks on hospitals, ambulances and other health care facilities in Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent days and warned the country is ...

Cypriot women work on lesser terms than men, part-time, fixed contracts, and under unregulated conditions of cheap labour, Peo union general-secretary Sotiroulla Charalambous said on Tuesday in an address to ...