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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 – in audio form. Presented by ...

The new Formula One season begins in Bahrain on Sunday with Lewis Hamilton bidding to win an unprecedented eighth world championship. Here, the PA news agency looks at a number ...

The law office of Republic has instructed police to file sexual harassment charges against a former politician, police spokesman Christos Andreou told CyBC on Friday. He would not identify the ...

EU leaders have agreed to allow the EU Commissioin to put the brakes on vaccine exports. On Thursday, the European Council gave the Commission freedom to exercise a mechanism to ...

On the occasion of BEUYS100, the Goethe-Institut Zypern announces a Call for Artists for Social Sculptures, a series of events including a workshop and exhibition at Goethe in April and ...

A total of 700 borrowers with non-performing loans (NPLs) amounting to about €173 million were deemed non-viable for loan subsidisation under the Estia scheme, sources told the Cyprus News Agency on Friday. ...

In 2020, as the world convulsed under COVID-19 and the global economy faced its worst recession since World War II, billionaires saw their riches reach new heights. Now some are talking ...

Reeling from the blockage in the Suez Canal, shipping rates for oil product tankers have nearly doubled this week, and several vessels were diverted away from the vital waterway as ...

Nike and Adidas came under attack on Chinese social media on Thursday over past comments the fashion brands have made about labour conditions in Xinjiang, part of a diplomatic row ...

People from other EU states made up around 13 per cent of the island’s population on January 1, 2020, the highest percentage after Luxembourg, Eurostat figures show. An additional 5 per cent living ...

Police said Friday the following mountain roads were open only to vehicles with four wheel drive or chains due to snow: Kakopetria – Pinewood – Pedoulas; Pedoulas – Prodromos; Prodromos – Lemythou; Prodromos – Platres. ...

Five establishments and 173 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus decrees between 6am on Thursday and 6am on Friday, police said Friday. During this time, officers carried out 12,197 checks in all ...

EU leaders voiced frustration late on Thursday over a massive shortfall in contracted deliveries of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, as a third wave of infections surged across Europe. With inoculation programmes ...

By George Eid and Andrew Rosenbaum Last week, Roger Zaccar moved his company, which disrupts insurance sales with a mobile app, from Beirut to Limassol. Zaccar told the Cyprus Mail ...

England kicked off their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 5-0 thrashing of San Marino on Thursday as Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored twice and Ollie Watkins marked his debut with a ...

Just as the EU is expected to vote on the registration of halloumi as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product on Friday, cheesemakers announced they would stage a mass ...

The government on Thursday strongly condemned the actions of “some brainless people” who smeared the mosque in Episkopi with ‘patriotic’ graffiti referring to the 1821 revolution, and drawings of Greek flags. ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced 324 new cases of Covid-19 from 21,300 PCR and rapid tests yielding a positivity rate of 1.52 per cent. There were no new deaths and the toll ...

President Nicos Anastasaides told EU leaders on Thursday that despite Turkey’s temporary suspension of illegal activities in Cyprus’ EEZ, and its provocations against other member states, the bloc was ...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that being woken up by a guard every hour during the night amounted to torture and that his appeal for treatment for ...

Dimmed lights, theatre seats and enchanting classical music. There’s nothing quite like a real live, in-person concert after months of online performances at home. After a four-month absence of ...

Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began testing their COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12, with hopes of expanding vaccination to that age range by early 2022, the U.S. drugmaker ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday said it was important to remember and honour the 1821 Greek uprising against Ottoman rule at a time when Greece and Cyprus were facing significant national ...

European Union leaders made good on Thursday on a 2016 promise to deepen trade ties with Turkey, but also warned Ankara to expect sanctions if it restarts exploration over disputed hydrocarbons ...