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But much of the forthcoming legislation should have been passed and implemented years ago By Charalampos Theopemptou Plastic pollution is a worrying worldwide phenomenon, but when this is combined with ...

Cyprus Agrotourism Company (Kea) director Annita Demetriadou on Tuesday said that the island’s rural tourism product must be constantly bolstered, citing various aspects that require the organisation’s involvement. ...

By Richard Boxall Punjab Lions cricket club from Nicosia produced an excellent performance in the European Cricket League in Spain, reaching the final of their group, where they were beaten ...

Talks between Ukraine and Russia are confrontational but moving forward, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, as the West plans to announce more sanctions against the Kremlin amid a worsening ...

Bitcoin just isn’t anonymous enough for a growing cohort of crypto users who are seeking greater seclusion. A volatile class of crypto known as privacy coins, created with the ...

SMEunited, the association of Crafts and SMEs in Europe, which has around 70 member organisations from over 30 European countries, including the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve), on Tuesday announced ...

Fitch Ratings announced that it has affirmed Cyprus’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB-‘ with a Stable Outlook. The credit ratings agency said that Cyprus’ rating is ...

Paphos hospitality business owners were applauded on Tuesday by the association of recreation centres (Osika) for their initiative to offer jobs to Ukrainian refugees. The Paphos hospitality venue association (Sikap) ...

Despite this year’s extended cold snap, we’re only a couple of months away from probably yet another scorching summer, which was brought home to us on Monday during ...

Cannabis use in Cyprus in 2021 increased, whereas cocaine use decreased, the annual report presented by the Cyprus National Addictions Authority (NAAC) on Tuesday showed. “The development of a strategy to ...

Legislators on Tuesday began discussing a series of bills designed to reduce administrative costs for small and medium-sized businesses by simplifying the way they prepare their annual financial statements. The ...

Russia, the United States and Britain traded accusations at the United Nations on Tuesday over the possibility of a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine, but none produced any evidence to ...

A Russian court found jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny guilty of large-scale fraud and contempt of court on Tuesday, a move likely to extend by years the time that President ...

Russia’s security policy dictates that the country would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN in an interview on Tuesday. ...

The communities of Mammari and Denia on Tuesday said in a joint announcement that they will block any efforts to extend the barbed wire along the buffer zone to reach ...

Intense Russian air strikes hit the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and street fighting raged on Tuesday, a day after it rejected Moscow’s demand to surrender, Ukrainian officials ...

Children with disabilities are discriminated against because they must take the same common exam as all other students, Ombudswoman Maria Styalianou Lottides said on Tuesday. Lottides published a report after ...

Police are looking to press charges against a number of individuals who pelted mobile traffic cameras with stones, an official for the force has said. According to Phileleftheros, a number ...

France has authorised some farmers to kill their poultry by asphyxia to stop a rapid spread of bird flu that has made it difficult for veterinary services to cope with ...

Russia is seeking to blunt Western-led efforts at the United Nations to further isolate Moscow for invading Ukraine, with the Security Council and General Assembly gearing up to vote this ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and 4,673 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. The new deaths were of two women aged 53 and 70, and a man aged 92, bringing the total death ...

Every weekend brings with it live music performances and this one is no different, starting from Thursday night. A quaint Nicosia venue aims to deliver weekly live music as it ...

The United States has not yet seen any concrete indications of an imminent Russian chemical or biological weapons attack in Ukraine but is closely monitoring streams of intelligence for them, ...

Young people increasingly have no employment whatsoever, while there is a growing sense of pessimism among them about their career prospects, a situation exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the House ...