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Can the Cyprus problem still be solved? Professor James Ker-Lindsay, the passionate international relations analyst, recently ...
The health ministry announced on Friday that three Covid deaths and 2,130 infections were recorded during the past week.
The three deaths – all men, aged 65, 68, and 92 – raise the total number of ...
Police recorded 1,680 road and traffic violations over the August 15 long weekend, saying on Tuesday this included 121 drivers over the alcohol limit.
Officers also caught 732 drivers breaching the speed limit
They ...
The three-year-old girl found unconscious on Sunday in a hotel swimming pool in Paphos was on Tuesday confirmed to have died by drowning, according to two state pathologists.
Angeliki Papetta ...
Head of Lemba community council in the Paphos district Thoukidides Chrysostomou on Tuesday called on the interior ministry to allow more local authorities to be permitted to perform civil marriages.
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The health ministry has prepared a draft plan which details how the state will handle Covid-19 in the months ahead, such as the protocol at schools.
The plan is expected ...
Cyprus is to receive €72m in EU funding which will be partly used to construct the first pre-departure centre for rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris ...
The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ has claimed that Varosha is part of the break-away province’s territory, and the future of the fenced-off town is a decision for the Turkish ...
A large natural gas deposit has been discovered by ENI/Total in block six of Cyprus’ EEZ, daily Alithia and state broadcaster Cybc reported on Friday, but the energy ministry ...
Prisons director Anna Aristotelous was called into the police headquarters on Thursday morning to submit statements in the recent case centered on charges of leaking classified information.
She told reporters ...
The mother of Cyprus’ first confirmed monkeypox case, a 40-year-old, has complained that there is a lack of vaccines and adequate treatment available, but the health minister on Thursday rejected ...
The government remains committed to the One China policy, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Wednesday night, noting that the EU also supports this.
Speaking to state broadcaster RIK, Pelekanos ...
Chairman of the health insurance organisation (HIO) Thomas Antoniou published a letter on Wednesday evening confirming his resignation from the post as he condemned the constant and unprovoked attacks on ...
This summer’s Perseids meteor shower is set to be a feast for stargazers as it coincides with a full moon, according to astrophysicist Chrysanthos Fakas.
He said that the ...
Kakopetria is to be better serviced by a much-increased night bus timetable which will see departures from the mountain village to Nicosia at 11:30pm and 1:30am on Friday and Saturday.
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Opposition deputies, lashed out against the government’s commitment to the foreclosures law before rejecting the president’s referral of the three bills they had passed last month.
Akel deputy, ...
Cyprus is one of 14 EU member states to sign up to a joint procurement contract with Spanish pharmaceutical firm Hipra for its protein vaccine against Covid-19.
The agreement was signed ...
Three fire trucks have been donated by the company Exness to the forestry department’s firefighting unit.
The agriculture minister and head of the forestry department attended the handover ceremony, ...
The embattled traffic camera system is to finally move up a gear and exit its extended pilot phase, as now another 20 stationary cameras are to be installed within six months, ...
A man wanted for police for aiding illegal entry was arrested on Monday night during a spot check along a Nicosia road, with the ID provided to officers proving false.
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Paphos police busted a suspected burglar with assistance from a member of the public, but two others at the flat escaped through a window.
Despite his attempts to flee and ...
The antiquities department expressed its deep sorrow following the death of Athanasios Papageorgiou, a long-standing stalwart of the island’s archaeological scene.
An expert in Byzantine history and art, Papageorgiou ...
Ayia Napa police are continuing their crackdown on illegalities in the town with their focus centred on illegal employment and unlicensed businesses – with multiple arrests and dozens of fines.
The ...
The Nicosia prison debacle shows no signs of abating after the police on Monday confirmed that they are now investigating the director and her assistant for leaking classified information.
Central ...