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Some Western companies have agreed to sell their Russian assets or hand them over to local managers as they scramble to comply with sanctions over the Ukraine conflict and deal ...

Cypriot banks were presented with bad checks worth a total of €438,000 in April, according to data released on Wednesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). This is the largest ...

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Yannis Matsis as managing director and head of its office ...

Air travel to Cyprus by 2035 could be so prohibitive due to green commitments that the island could lose 15-20 per cent of its tourism and 1.7 per cent of its GDP ...

WITH the UN warning last month of famine in around 80 countries worldwide due to pandemic fallout and the Ukraine war, and with impending shortages and rising prices looming in the ...

Manchester City’s midfield genius Kevin De Bruyne scored four goals on Wednesday in a 5-1 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers to put his team in a commanding position to retain ...

Russian diplomat Sergiy Andreev was feeling unwelcome on the streets of Warsaw even before protesters doused him with red liquid thrown in his face at short range this week. Soon ...

A fourth suspect has been charged in relation to last month’s incidents at Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in Larnaca which left one man with serious burns, police said on Wednesday. ...

The government has always recognised and supported the evolution of the University of Cyprus into an ambitious and proactive centre of scientific excellence, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday after ...

Ukrainian officials issued dire warnings on Wednesday about the fate of civilians and the last fighters in Mariupol after weeks of Russian bombardment which the city’s mayor said had ...

The discovery last week of three dead vultures in Paphos is “a huge blow” to the species’ population in Cyprus, according to a joint statement issued on Wednesday by the ...

The chaotic and violent scenes at last year’s Euro 2020 final at Wembley can never be repeated, according to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. An independent review of the disorder at ...

Greece on Wednesday banned conversion therapy for minors, a practice aimed at suppressing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and which the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community ...

By Antigoni Pitta and Nick Theodoulou Cyprus cannot continue to perpetuate irrational privileges for state officials, presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said on Wednesday, referring to the double appointment of his ...

MPs from the House ethics committee are calling on the government and wider public sector authorities to clamp down on employees who are engaged in private businesses without the requisite ...

Defending champion Rafa Nadal began his Italian Open campaign with an emphatic 6-3 6-1 victory over big-serving American John Isner to move into the last-16 on Wednesday. Nadal, who returned ...

Many women in the Afghan capital are delaying a return to fully covering their faces in public in defiance of orders from Islamist Taliban rulers, others are staying at home ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2017 decision by the Famagusta criminal court which found two defendants guilty in relation to a quadruple murder committed in Ayia Napa in June 2016. ...

The length of the school day and the educational curriculum for kindergartens, primary, secondary and technical vocational schools was once again the focal point of discussions by lawmakers during the ...

Larnaca district court on Wednesday ordered the eight-day remand of a 45-year-old man suspected of committing a series of crimes and traffic violations under investigation. The man is suspected of ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said he had agreed new deals with Sweden and Finland to bolster European security, pledging to support both countries’ armed forces should they ...

The House legal affairs on Wednesday began discussions on the criminalisation of bullying, with a bill suggesting punishments ranging from hefty fines to prison time. Discussions on bullying are taken ...

A Russian spy chief on Wednesday compared the US State Department to the World War Two Nazi propaganda machine constructed by Joseph Gobbels, saying Washington had launched an anti-Russia messaging ...

More live music is coming to Larnaca’s liveliest rock bar as local bands prepare to take the stage. This Friday, The Ladderman band returns to Savino Live to perform ...