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241. President: mistakes, complacency over Easter will mean restrictions drag on

Addressing the nation anew on Thursday, President Nicos Anastasiades said that this weekend, which marks the Greek Orthodox Easter, will test the island’s population but stressed the need for absolute compliance with restriction measures so that it can remain feasible to begin a gradual lifting of the measures as soon as possible....

242. Greece reports first coronavirus death

Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, after an elderly man traveled on a Christian pilgrimage with dozens of others in his group...

243. Church services across the island suspended, President informs Archbishop

Church services are included in the list of public gatherings of over 75 people that are to be suspended as part of ramped-up coronavirus protection measures, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou confirmed on Tuesday....

244. CEOs: Drop in Optimism and Reversal of Sentiment

245. Russian church in the north under criticism

A Russian Orthodox Church in the north has come under criticism with the Archbishop accusing the local priest of recusancy and embassy officials reiterating Moscow’s respect to the autocephalous Church of Cyprus...

246. Authoritarian, divisive, hard right?

A few days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece on political developments in Greece on its front page in which the author denounced the return to power of the “hard” right under the leadership of an “authoritarian” prime minister with “anti-democratic instincts.” ...

247. Interview with Endy Zemenides

Ever since Joe Biden declared that Cyprus was a “strategic partner” of the United States, people have been trying to identify substance behind those words. There has been a similar search of what “best relations ever” between the U.S. and Greece means...

248. Memes flood internet after bishop’s gay comments

Morphou Neophytos has taken heat after making controversial comments about gay sex, with the internet flooding with funny memes but also criticism against the bishop...

249. New law criminalizes sex buyer behaviour

The House has passed a law criminalizing customers who pay for sex with trafficked women, while it rejected an amendment that would provide a legal recourse for defendants who use a plea of ignorance as their defence...

250. House debates 'sex buyer' legislation

Two proposals in parliament on the purchase of sexual services have taken politicians and the public by storm, with human trafficking and sexual abuse of minors in the backdrop...

251. Deutsche Bank axes 18,000 jobs

252. The election results and ND’s next challenge

253. An enlightened decision

254. Foreign Minister wraps up Paris visit

255. Death toll from Sri Lanka attacks rises sharply to 290

256. Europe unites after fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral

257. A Greek prime minister at the White House

258. Aristotle shows us the path Jeffrey Sachs says at Hubert Curien lecture in Nicosia

259. Cypriot lawyer caught in a web of spies

A Cypriot lawyer says she was targeted by undercover agents who were trying to fish for information to discredit her in a lawsuit against an Israeli software company...

260. Greeks and Jews

261. 'We will miss you' - Germany pleads with the British to stay in EU

262. Alexoui released from jail

Nicosia businessman Alexis “Alexoui” Mavromichalis has been released from jail, after police did not find any incrementing evidence against him...

263. Alexoui mulls Supreme Court appeal

Allegations have emerged against the Nicosia judge who presided over Alexoui’s remand on Sunday, with the defence attorney questioning whether his client got a fair hearing...

264. Europe may need to step up sanctions on Russia over Ukraine - Merkel ally

265. Repatriated 6th-century St. Mark mosaic to help reconstitute apse

266. Sixth century mosaic of Saint Mark returns home

267. Merkel takes the fall leaving Europe without a leader

268. Ancient mariners: Greek navy offers taste of life in galleys

269. United against racism Germans stage mass protest against far right

270. Turkish Cypriot religious leader supports return of icons held in Kyrenia castle to Church of Cyprus