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The European Commission has established an informal working group on halloumi/hellim, which will focus on the correct implementation of the standards agreed in the Protected Designation of Origin scheme ...

The health ministry on Friday added 19 more fatalities to the total death toll attributed to coronavirus, following a review of the epidemiological data. This brings the number of people who ...

Dust levels remain persistently high for the seventh day on Friday, although respite is on the way later today, when the dust is expected to gradually start clearing. According to ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

In today’s episode, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Cyprus to close its ports to all Russian ships and to deny “privileges” to Russian nationals, as part of ...

Police on Friday said they fined five people for failing to abide by coronavirus measures in Larnaca and Famagusta following 2,307 checks across the island in the last 24 hours. About half ...

The war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia have ended seven consecutive quarters of growth in the PC market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said ...

A Palestinian who killed two people in a Tel Aviv bar was shot to death on Friday by Israeli security forces after an hours-long manhunt through the city. The bar ...

Russia gave the most sombre assessment so far of its invasion of Ukraine, describing the “tragedy” of mounting troop losses and the economic hit from sanctions, as Ukrainians were evacuated ...

Lebanon’s parliament is ready “with great seriousness” to secure the necessary legislation and reforms to make a programme supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a success, parliament speaker ...

The Paphos regional board of tourism (Etap) this week announced that it participated in the inaugural meeting for the U-Mar Project, in Sicily, as part of the actions of the ...

Airbus (AIR.PA) and Qatar Airways are set to face each other in court as a dispute over billions of dollars of jets enters a theatrical phase and rattles some ...

After more than a decade of back-and-forth, parliament appears ready to finally bring to the plenum a bill obliging users of burner phones to identify themselves. Marinos Mousiouttas, chair of ...

After President Anastasiades’ meeting with the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, the government spokesman issued a written statement in which he said, they discussed the ...

At least two people have died and four were seriously wounded in a shooting in Tel Aviv’s city center on Thursday, the latest of several attacks in which 13 people ...

By a majority vote, parliament on Thursday gave the thumbs-down to President Nicos Anastasiades’ challenge to legislation on local government reform – the fate of which could now hang in the ...

More than 700 asylum seekers recipients of welfare benefits were found to have secured jobs and their grants will be terminated, deputy minister for social welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on Thursday. ...

Ukraine stepped up calls on Thursday for financial sanctions crippling enough to force Moscow to end the war as its officials rushed to evacuate civilians from cities and towns in ...

Authorities on Thursday announced two more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing detected 2,457 positives to the coronavirus. The latest fatalities were both men; one aged 74 who passed away on Wednesday; ...

Another week, another set of local musicians about to take the stage. The next few live performances to take over Sarah’s Jazz Club in Nicosia welcome established and emerging ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday called on Cyprus to close its ports to all Russian ships and to deny “privileges” to Russian nationals, as part of an effort to ...

The health ministry announced a slew of changes to the Covid-19 restrictions, ranging from the end of outdoor mask mandates from April 11 to a SafePass no longer being required in ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Ukraine had presented Moscow with a draft peace deal containing “unacceptable” elements at variance with a previous agreement, comments that Kyiv ...

Prospects for the EastMed pipeline suffered what seems like a final blow on Thursday as a senior US State Department official labelled it expensive and unviable, while making the case ...