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A bill for €1 billion in state-backed loans to Covid stricken businesses is expected to be approved by parliament on Thursday, including a controversial provision to have the auditor-general monitor the ...

In this Colnaghi Foundation video, The Wallace Collection’s senior curator, Helen Jacobsen, and senior furniture conservator, Jürger Huber, introduce us to 18th-century French furniture, with a special focus ...

Cyprus’ best known and most photographed bird, ‘Kokos’ the pelican, has died at the ripe old age of 25. Found at the Pelican restaurant in Kato Paphos alongside his friend, a ...

Bitcoin’s volatility is its main attraction and not a bug, as that is what gives the cryptocurrency its exponential rises, ex-Goldman Sachs bitcoin enthusiast Raoul Pal said. “People have ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had completed its inspection of a U.S. plant that makes Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and asked for ...

Facebook Inc’s Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app. The company ...

Cyprus faces the grim prospect of another lost year for tourism, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) warned on Wednesday. The dire warning was delivered by ACTA spokesman Haris ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday a lockdown “is a scenario that remains on the table” should the number of daily Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations increase in the coming ...

The European Union won’t take up an extra 300 million doses of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines that it has secured as options under existing contracts, a senior ...

“The whole science of yoga, the whole technology that we refer to as yoga is just about this: transforming yourself from being just a piece of creation to become a ...

By Gina Agapiou Dating can sometimes seem to be obsolete in the modern world. It takes up way too much time and there’s no guarantee; you have to stomach ...

A vaccination programme for enclaved Greek Cypriots has been nearly completed, presidential commissioner Photis Photiou whose portfolio includes humanitarian issues, told the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday. He said that ...

A total of 60 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The general court of the EU said on Wednesday that the EU’s Intellectual Property Office should not have registered the name ‘Grilloumi’ by Swedish company Fontana Food AB. The ...

The commerce ministry’s consumer protection service said on Wednesday it had fined the House Finance Corporation €20,000 over some of its advertisements. The service found that a number of them ...

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday not to cross Russia’s “red lines”, saying Moscow would respond swiftly and harshly to any provocations and those responsible would regret ...

Newspapers across Europe celebrated the Super League’s impending collapse on their front pages on Wednesday and the role played by English fans in its downfall. The ‘big six’ English ...

Cypriot deputy minister of tourism Savvas Perdios used his attendance at the Meet in Cyprus 2021 virtual expo to provide an update on the country’s efforts to keep tourism afloat ...

Cambodian police defended on Wednesday making arrests and punishing people by beating them using rattan canes for breaching coronavirus restrictions during a two-week lockdown aimed at containing a spike in ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The frost was spread over the field like splintered glass. There was silence of the kind that hovers over a neglected graveyard ...

Tourist business owners in the Famagusta district staged a protest on Wednesday morning to complain about insufficient government support during the pandemic. The protest was attended by various unions and ...

The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre this April inaugurates the first Residency Programme for Performing and Live Arts at Theatro Polis OPAP. The programme will present seven artists and artistic groups ...

The European Super League collapsed on Wednesday as eight of the 12 founding members from England, Italy and Spain abandoned the breakaway project under massive pressure from fans, politicians, football officials ...

Should the number of positive Covid-19 cases increase even more in the next weeks, the government will have no choice but to revert to stricter measures, according to Maria Koliou, ...