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The former director of Limassol’s Pattihio municipal theatre on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of embezzling €234,550 from the theatre, the Cyprus News Agency reported. The 61-year-old defendant faces ...

Twelve people were fined for failing to follow Covid-19 restriction measures in 1,609 police checks over the 24 hours until Thursday morning, police said. Three premises in Nicosia with six people were ...

Procedures have been set in motion to help some 8,000 Ukrainians who have come to Cyprus as refugees or are stranded here because of Russia’s invasion of their country, Interior ...

By Katie Wright From fast-paced thrillers and murder mysteries to fascinating memoirs and dragon-filled fantasy novels, books can bring us immense pleasure. There’s something particularly powerful about the way ...

The old Cyprus proverb ‘Save up more logs for the March hearth’, once again shows the wisdom of tradition as a cold snap affecting the island continues, bringing lower temperatures ...

Russian government websites are facing unprecedented cyber-attacks and technical efforts are being made to filter foreign web traffic, the TASS news agency cited the digital ministry as saying on Thursday. ...

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri reacted angrily to questions about his side’s disappointing season following their Champions League exit against Villarreal on Wednesday. Allegri’s team slipped to a 3-0 ...

Developments are expected soon over the exploitation of Cyprus’ natural gas fields, given the large increase in natural gas prices internationally, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Thursday. Speaking to ...

An elderly man who got stuck in mud for hours while out walking his dogs in the Paphos district was eventually rescued by the fire service, it said on Thursday. ...

How can the cultural sector address urgent climate change? From festivals to the digital impact of the arts, the D6:EU conference from Thursday to Saturday brings together climate and ...

Paphos police are investigating the armed robbery of two kiosks that occurred within minutes of each other at around 6pm on Wednesday. The first robbery was committed at 6.15pm when ...

Two people have been arrested in Larnaca after police found 3kg of cannabis. After investigations in March at the post office, members of the police drug unit YKAN and the ...

Tens of thousands of Japanese households remained without power on Thursday morning after a magnitude 7.4 quake struck shortly before midnight, throwing a swathe of northeastern Japan into darkness, severing key ...

Airports Council International (ACI Europe) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Monday asked for the removal of all Covid-19 travel restrictions currently in force for trips within the ...

Facebook on Wednesday removed official Russian posts that falsely claimed reports of Russia bombing a children’s hospital in Ukraine were a hoax, a company spokesperson said, even as similar ...

International outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grew on Thursday as U.S. and Ukrainian officials said civilians waiting in line for bread and sheltering in a theatre had ...

Three million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian oil and products may not find their way to market beginning in April in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, the ...

Director-General of the Ministry of Finance George Panteli, who represented Cyprus at the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) which ended yesterday in Brussels, said on Wednesday that sanctions ...

Michelin and BMW were among the latest companies on Wednesday to warn of disruption to their operations from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while ad group Publicis said it had ...

By George Pirishis There are new developments regarding the introduction of the minimum wage in the market since the general director of the Federation of Employers and Industrialists (OEB), Michalis ...

The introduction of English-language undergraduate courses at state universities is proving to be a tricky puzzle to solve, with concerns over admissions criteria and tuition fees while ideological splits are ...

When it comes to thinking up excuses for delaying the submission of tax returns deputies are very resourceful and imaginative. On Monday, Diko deputy Panicos Leonidou tabled two bills that ...

A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted Japan‘s northeast coast off Fukushima late on Wednesday, leaving two dead and 94 injured and reviving memories of a quake and tsunami that crippled the ...

The health ministry announced on Wednesday that its dental services will offer free dental checkups across the republic to mark World Oral Health Day 2022. Four mobile dental units will be ...