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China sailed its aircraft carrier Shandong through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday, shadowed by a U.S. destroyer, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, just ...

Two businesses and 21 individuals were booked in the past 24 hours following 1,718 checks for violations of the decrees against the spread of Covid-19, police said on Friday. A police spokesperson told ...

Two people are under arrest on suspicion of breaking into a Paphos pharmacy and stealing cash after an alert off-duty police officer spotted the vehicle believed to have been used ...

The U.N. Security Council will no longer vote on Friday on a Russian-drafted call for aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine as Russia’s U.N. envoy accused ...

The benefits of digital solutions and the resulting improvement in business competitiveness were highlighted at an event in Nicosia on Wednesday. The event was organised by IBM spinoff Kyndryl, whose ...

Several missiles have hit an aircraft repair plant in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday morning, destroying its building, city mayor Andriy Sadovy said. The plant had been ...

Consumers risk losing all their money invested in cryptoassets and could fall prey to scams, the European Union’s securities, banking and insurance watchdogs said in a joint statement on ...

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that Beijing will pay a price if it supports Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, ...

Russia laid down strict new rules for foreigners seeking permits to buy and sell Russian assets ranging from securities to real estate, a client memo by Citigroup (C.N) showed, ...

State-owned asset management company Kedipes announced on Thursday the launch of a new voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) in order to reduce the number of its employees, which the company considers ...

Australia imposed sanctions on Friday on two Russian oligarchs with links to its mining industry, one of them a billionaire with an investment connection to Rio Tinto’s Gladstone alumina ...

An article last week in the Cyprus Mail highlighting the work of volunteers offering support for Ukrainians in Cyprus sparked a strong response from readers who wanted to know what ...

The arrogance with which the ambassador of the Russian Federation, Stanislav Osadchiy, addresses Greek Cypriots never ceases to astonish. When he gives an interview, and he has given more in ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law on combatting terrorism, harmonising with a relevant EU directive over which Cyprus had earlier been warned for non-compliance. The bill passed ...

Graffiti warnings daubed on the doors of activists in Moscow. A food blogger threatened with up to 15 years in jail for “discrediting” Russia’s army. A call to sack a ...

The island’s largest lender said Thursday it has no banking operations in either Russia or Ukraine, having wound down its business there years ago. In a statement released through ...

Diagnostic centres, particularly radiological facilities, effectively operate in a lawless environment, often carrying out unnecessary MRIs or using outdated and potentially hazardous machinery. What’s more, some doctors are shareholders ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced one more death attributed to Covid-19, while testing detected 3, 951 new positives. The latest fatality was a man aged 84. That brings the death toll since ...

Unvaccinated individuals run the risk of hospitalisation for Covid-19 that is four to 30 times higher than for the vaccinated, the health ministry said on Thursday. The data released runs up ...

Though several local theatre ensembles are staging plays right now nearly all are in Greek but this weekend a play in English arrives to entertain theatre lovers in Nicosia and ...

Cuba said late on Wednesday it had sentenced upwards of 100 protesters in Havana to between 4 and 30 years in prison for violence committed during island-wide demonstrations last year, the largest since ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (15 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 70000166 Agios ...

Turkish Cypriots seeking up to €50 million in compensation from the Republic for use of their land have had their claim rejected by the Paphos district court. The legal services announced ...

Rescue workers on Thursday dug survivors out of the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol which Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian air strike ...