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Nine businesses and 23 individuals were booked by police during 2,729 checks in the past 24 hours for violating Covid decrees. In Nicosia 1,125 inspections were carried out and one premises plus three individuals ...

Trends come and go. And this year one of them has been Gonks, whose story starts in the festive lore of Scandinavia. Alix Norman learns more Christmas is weird. We ...

SupportCY, the social responsibility network created by the Bank of Cyprus, has moved into its own space, which will now house services related to its mission and provide a place ...

Property sales across four major Nicosia municipalities exceeded €3.3 billion in value over the past five years, a report from independent real estate asset management and advisory firm WiRE has shown. ...

By Lanting Liu The 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cyprus was marked by the opening of a big photographic exhibition at the Cyprus foreign ...

The Bank of Cyprus announced on Friday that it has concluded its small-scale, targeted, voluntary staff exit plan. Following the completion of the plan, 100 applicants received approval to leave at ...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (AMC.N) said on Friday nearly 1.1 million people watched “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in its theaters in the United States, a record opening for a movie ...

Airbus (AIR.PA) completed a triple crown of aircraft orders at the expense of rival Boeing (BA.N) on Thursday with a deal to supply 100 narrowbody jets to Air France-KLM ...

The prices of meat and baked Christmas treats followed a slightly upward trend in the past year, according to the results of the Christmas price observatory conducted on Friday by ...

After last year’s shenanigans over the state budget, which became the subject of political horse-trading before it was eventually approved in January, it was good to return to business ...

Britain reported record Covid-19 infections for the third consecutive day on Friday, with a rise to 93,045 new cases fuelled by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the virus. ...

Following a three-day debate, parliament on Friday evening approved the state budget for 2022 with 30 votes in favour and 25 against. The bill was voted by ruling Disy, Diko, Dipa, and independent ...

Pfizer Inc on Friday forecast that the Covid-19 pandemic would not be behind us until 2024 and said a lower-dose version of its vaccine for 2-4 year olds generated a weaker ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and 695 had tested positive from 82,410 tests, a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. The death concerns a 62-year-old woman who ...

Countries taking part in U.N. talks on autonomous weapons stopped short of launching negotiations on an international treaty to govern their use, instead agreeing merely to continue discussions. The ...

The Paphos cultural venue Technopolis 20 is celebrating the Christmas spirit with a series of festive concerts and musical gatherings. On Thursday and then again on January 3, pianists Galina Dimova and ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said it was a great honour to have the King of Jordan in Cyprus. King Abdullah arrived at the presidential palace on Friday evening amid ...

At least 22 people died and 16 others were in critical condition in hospital after consuming bootleg alcohol in Istanbul, the local governor’s office said on Friday, adding that four people ...

Russia said on Friday it wanted a legally binding guarantee that NATO would give up any military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, part of a wish list of security ...

Health authorities said Friday they have detected 28 additional cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. In a statement, the ministry said 20 of those were primary and secondary contacts of ...

A group of migrants from refugee camps in Cyprus who are being resettled in Italy at Pope Francis’ expense helped the pontiff celebrate his 85th birthday on Friday. “You saved ...

Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to ...

Turkey’s currency crisis accelerated on Friday as the lira plunged 8%, gripped by fears of an inflationary spiral brought on by President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox plan to slash interest ...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense lawyers on Friday said they had withdrawn plans to call a witness who they anticipated would help undermine the testimony of one of the British socialite’...