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By Maria Demertzis In the 2020 revision of monetary policy strategy, the US Federal Reserve adjusted the pursuit of an inflation rate at 2 per cent, to inflation that ‘averages 2 per cent ...

Meta Platforms Inc FB.O is barring Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on its platform anywhere in the world, the parent company of social media giant Facebook ...

This project has been continuously in the limelight during the last few weeks, but, worryingly, for the wrong reasons. Following many questions about the lack of progress, significant schedule slippage ...

Hospitals and health centres registered in the national health scheme will be upgraded with 42 major development projects amounting to €52 million, state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Friday. The projects, ...

The biggest enemy of any country’s tourism industry is uncertainty, whether it be political, financial, or more recently a health crisis. Apart from three successive record years, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Cyprus ...

The health ministry issued a public warning on Friday after authorities in Germany and the Netherlands reported poisoning, which led to one death, from ecstasy found in bottles of Moë...

Turkish authorities have reportedly denied entry to a Turkish Cypriot doctor and activist who is known for his work for the reunification of Cyprus and supports the opening of the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Ukraine’s military on Friday to overthrow their political leaders and negotiate peace, while authorities in Kyiv urged citizens to help defend the capital as ...

Ukraine said on Friday it had recorded increased radiation levels from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a day after the site was captured by Russian forces, due to military ...

The International Energy Agency pledged to protect global energy security, the Paris-based watchdog said on Friday, after convening a meeting to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Today I convened ...

The health ministry on Friday announced 1,826 new coronavirus infections which resulted from 113,253 tests, a positivity rate of 1.61 per cent. Earlier the health ministry had announced seven additional coronavirus related deaths, ...

Calling all Paphos photographers, an exhibition coming up in April is for you! The Paphos branch of the Cyprus Photographic Society has launched an open call for submissions as it ...

Cypriot citizens who are still in Ukraine were advised to stay at home or in safe shelters until the situation is reassessed to allow their movement, the foreign ministry announced ...

The European Union is planning a third package of sanctions against Moscow, EU officials said on Friday, as Ukraine’s president pleaded with the bloc for faster and more forceful ...

Russia is facing more resistance than Moscow anticipated in its invasion of Ukraine, including in its advance on the capital, Kyiv, and appears to have lost some of its momentum, ...

A total of 65 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus will operate on Saturday for eligible groups, according to the health ministry. Eligible for a free rapid test are people fully ...

The impact of the war in Ukraine on an economy already struggling with rising prices was at the focus of a meeting on Friday between the leaderships of left-wing Akel ...

Russian missiles pounded Kyiv on Friday, families cowered in shelters and authorities told residents to prepare Molotov cocktails to defend Ukraine’s capital from an assault that the mayor said ...

By Liz Truss Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine exposes Vladimir Putin’s regime for what it is: mendacious, bellicose and calculating. His Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, told ...

Ukrainians of all ages protested in Limassol and Paphos on Friday, as part of a series of anti-war demonstrations in solidarity with Ukraine after Russian troops invaded and attacked the ...

The inaugural educational, environmental mind REset scheme has been completed with great success. Lidl Cyprus’ mind REset programme, implemented in collaboration with Junior Achievement Cyprus and the Ministry of Education, ...

Ukraine’s honorary consul in Paphos Yiannakis Aristodemou is in contact with the embassy in Nicosia to help Ukrainian tourists stranded in countries in the region following Russia’s invasion, ...

Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine is a black page for the democratic world and Cyprus stands by the people of Ukraine, commissioner for the citizen Panayiotis Sentonas said on ...

The booster jab against coronavirus will start being administered to children aged 12 and over who are severely immunosuppressed, the health ministry announced on Friday. The decision to extend the lower ...