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The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was fully exposed on Wednesday as Vladimir Putin’s sanctions-ravaged government teetered on the brink of its first international debt default ...

The mediterranean island of Cyprus was a one time tax haven which still attracts huge amounts of foreign investment. Its flat, low tax rates, privacy laws and geographical location have ...

European Union regulators have told some banks to scrutinise transactions by all Russian and Belarusian clients, including EU residents, to ensure that they are not used to circumvent Western sanctions ...

One hundred and fifty unaccompanied minors currently at Pournara are to be transferred to other accommodation units in Famagusta, while the interior ministry said that 317 irregular migrants had arrived in ...

The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation is accepting creative collaboration proposals from aspiring artists, science teams and educators, related to a series of actions that are being planned. Collaboration applications ...

Two new grant schemes were on Wednesday announced by the energy ministry totalling € 49 million, for the energy upgrade of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), non-profit organisations (NGOs), local government authorities ...

All four tennis Grand Slams will use a 10-point tiebreak in the final set on a trial basis starting with the French Open in May, the governing body of the ...

Manchester United have gone too many years without trophies and need a more determined collective effort to end their drought, goalkeeper David de Gea said after they crashed out of ...

A 25-year-old woman was arrested at Paphos airport for attempting to leave the country using a stolen passport, police said on Wednesday. Paphos police deputy chief Michalis Ioannou said the ...

The Cyprus Union of journalists said on Wednesday they had held a meeting with government spokesman Marios Pelekanos seeking more access to the palace and called for an end to ...

By Andreas Pavlou Leoni Bella Vassiliou, a student at Aradippou High School, recently came first in the world in a poster competition for International World Food Day. In a written ...

Bad weather may have kept micro-satellite PICO from breaking the world record last month, but congratulations were still in order for the young explorers who attempted it and their teacher, ...

Russia said on Wednesday that some parts of a possible peace deal with Ukraine were close to being agreed after Kyiv agreed to discuss neutrality, raising hopes of an end ...

In a contender for the world title, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man looking for love who has found peace in poetry Argyris Loizou sits in his small first-floor flat off ...

Russian ambassador to Nicosia, Stanislav Osadchiy has warned that Moscow is keeping score and will take everything that Nicosia does as regards the war in Ukraine into account when it ...

In today’s episode, the finance ministry has revised its forecast for inflation this year from an initial 1.5 per cent to 4 per cent, as petrol prices surge in the wake ...

About 20,000 people have managed to escape the besieged port of Mariupol in private cars, the Ukrainian interior ministry said on Wednesday, but hundreds of thousands remain trapped by Russian shelling, ...

Police and the fire service were investigating after a fire broke out and destroyed the car of a 69-year-old woman in Kakopetria, early on Wednesday. Authorities received information about the ...

But a recent Cyprus court ruling may pave the way for Turkish Cypriots to take their cause to the European Court of Human Rights By Aylin Zeybek As a starting ...

By Vigya Sharma The Russia-Ukraine crisis is already a human catastrophe. And it could also prove disastrous for climate action by slowing the global energy transition. Both Russia and Ukraine ...

Art often imitates life and it is not always inspired by its love-filled, cheery-eyed days. Sometimes it is its harsh reality and sad truth that it tries to depict and ...

Cardiologists from California state that people with heart conditions are more likely to use Telemedicine applications Specialists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles found that the pandemic forced patients ...

Police on Wednesday said they fined one Paphos business and 14 people in Famagusta for failing to abide by coronavirus restrictions, after 1,739 checks in the government-controlled areas. The business concerned a ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested by an off-duty officer after he was found by the owner of the house he was trying to steal from in Paphos, police said on ...