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The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, warning that a Russian invasion would provoke sanctions that would hit Moscow harder than ...

Ruling Disy will elect its presidential candidate on March 12, it was decided on Wednesday as MPs convened to kickstart the dialogue on the 2023 presidential elections amid speculation on who will ...

The health ministry announced 492 new cases of Covid-19 and one death on Wednesday. The death concerned a 60-year-old man who passed away after being treated in the ICU at Nicosia ...

Australia’s first openly gay footballer Josh Cavallo has no reason to feel unsafe at next year’s World Cup in Qatar, the chief executive of the tournament has said ...

The United States ordered airlines to hand over the names of passengers from southern African countries hit by the Omicron COVID-19 variant and other countries tightened their borders as a ...

Paphos music fans have plenty of opportunities to listen to live music this winter as bands, theatres and bars organise back-to-back events. A venue that you can always count on ...

The House education committee on Wednesday discussed the health protocols in schools against the further spread of Covid-19 with protesters outside calling for the abolition of the measures that include ...

U.S. officials ordered airlines to disclose passenger names and other information about those who have recently been in eight southern African countries and will give it to local and ...

Cyprus, Greece and Jordan agreed on Wednesday to set in motion procedures for the holding of joint military exercises. The decision was taken by the defence ministers of Cyprus and ...

President Nicos Anastasiades rejected anew suggestions Wednesday that he was involved in setting shell companies abroad for personal enrichment after leaked documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, implicated the law firm ...

The fisheries department has praised a professional fisherman whose quick reflexes helped rescue an endangered turtle caught in his nets. In a post on Facebook, the fisheries department said the ...

By Chris Michael 1. On November 30, 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping had a successful phone call with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades. Could you brief us about the conversation between the two heads ...

Police on Wednesday launched an investigation into Polis Chrysochous hospital for possible medical negligence after a pensioner who visited the facility died in a taxi on his way to Paphos ...

Arsenal defender Gabriel fought off an attacker wielding a baseball bat during an attempted robbery at his north London home in August, the Daily Mail reported. Gabriel, 23, and a friend ...

Halfway through the second season of Succession, HBO’s satirical drama about the inner power struggles of an immensely powerful but dysfunctional family, patriarch Logan Roy asks a simple question: ...

The UN Secretary General’s new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), Colin Stewart, arrives on the island early next week to assume ...

A fire near the communities of Archimandrita and Maronas in the Paphos district was brought under control after burning 20 hectares of dry vegetation and some trees, fire services spokesman Andreas ...

The justice ministry on Wednesday submitted a bill providing for the protection of whistleblowers, which is part of a legal framework designed to fight corruption. The bill is connected with ...

The Australian Open’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is about protecting the community, not about ‘blackmailing’ Novak Djokovic, a state government official said on Wednesday. Organisers of the year’s first ...

Ellen White spoke of her pride after breaking England Women’s all-time scoring record in the remarkable 20-0 victory over Latvia in Doncaster. White scored twice early on in the ...

A senior Botswana health official said on Tuesday that 16 out of the total 19 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant detected in the country were asymptomatic, and it was “unfair” to ...

The growth of British house prices accelerated last month and the market was holding up despite the end of pandemic emergency support measures for housing and the broader economy, mortgage ...

Marks & Spencer’s Makarios avenue store has been fully operational since November 22, welcoming back the public, who can combine their visit with a walk along Nicosia’s impressive, renovated ...

by Richard Dickenson My father, whose work involved a good deal of public speaking, gave me this week’s title as the best possible advice for the task. He also ...