3 d. ago Ukraine urges investigation into alleged Russian chemical weapons use

Ukraine asked the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague on Tuesday to investigate the alleged use of banned toxic munitions by Russia against its forces. A request to establish an investigation was submitted by Kyiv to the governing body of the organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). It followed Dutch and German […]

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4 d. ago Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his car with gunshot wound

Russia’s sacked transport minister has been found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said on Monday, hours after President Vladimir Putin fired him. A presidential decree published earlier on Monday gave no reason for the dismissal of Roman […]

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4 d. ago One killed, dozens wounded in Russian strikes on Kharkiv in Ukraine

At least one person was killed and 71 wounded in Russian drone attacks on the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials said on Monday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more support from Kyiv’s allies. One person was also killed in a drone attack on the southern city of Odesa and at least 20 were […]

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8 d. ago Jailed Russian dissidents call for mass prisoner release as part of a peace deal with Ukraine

Eleven jailed Russian dissidents have written to world leaders appealing for a mass release of Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian civilians held by Russia – some 10,000 people in total, they say – as part of any peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. In the letter, published via Reuters, the dissidents said that alongside prisoners […]

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2 w. ago Cyprus Business Now: taxes, workforce, electric vehicle scheme, seafarers

Tax incentives offered to attract international and Cypriot professionals to Cyprus have resulted in €406.6 million in tax exemptions over a three-year period, benefiting 25,277 employees who moved to the island for work between 2021 and 2023. The total salaries declared by these employees reached €1.31 billion, with exemptions ranging between 20 and 50 per cent depending on […]

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2 w. ago €406.6m in tax breaks bring 25,000 professionals to Cyprus – Russians top list

Tax incentives offered to attract international and Cypriot professionals to Cyprus have resulted in €406.6 million in tax exemptions over a three-year period, benefiting 25,277 employees who moved to the island for work between 2021 and 2023. The total salaries declared by these employees reached €1.31 billion, with exemptions ranging between 20 and 50 per […]

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2 w. ago Russian missile attack kills 17 as Zelenskiy presses Nato allies for support

A Russian missile attack in southeastern Ukraine on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and caused sweeping damage, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv’s allies at a Nato summit to bolster Ukraine‘s defence industry. The two-part strike killed 15 and wounded more than 200 in the regional capital Dnipro, said governor Serhiy Lysak, […]

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2 w. ago Ukraine fighting 10,000 Russian troops in Kursk region, Ukrainian commander says

Around 10,000 Russian soldiers are fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, about 90 square kilometers (35 square miles) of which is controlled by Ukraine, Ukraine’s top military commander said. “We control about 90 square kilometers of territory in the Hlushkov district of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, and these are our preemptive actions in […]

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3 w. ago Our View: Russia remains untouchable for our political system and most media

Defending the president’s diplomatic blunder about Iran’s alleged message, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos criticised the opposition parties for focusing on this while completely ignoring the Russian Federation’s crude attempt to involve Cyprus in the Israel-Iran conflict. Opposition parties failed to say anything about claims by the Russian delegation at the UN, that the British bases […]

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3 w. ago HUR identifies Russian tanker evading oil sanctions with illegal transfers near Greece, Cyprus

HUR identifies Russian tanker evading oil sanctions with illegal transfers near Greece, Cyprus  The Kyiv Independent

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3 w. ago Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners of war, but Moscow received no war dead, Russia says

Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners-of-war (POWs) on Saturday, the Russian defence ministry said, and Russia handed over the bodies of 1,200 dead Ukrainian soldiers to Kyiv. The exchanges are part of agreements reached by the warring sides during talks in Istanbul earlier this month. Ukraine earlier on Saturday confirmed it had received the bodies of […]

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