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Bilateral ties, EU issues and the Cyprus problem were on the agenda of the consultations the Slovenian FM Anže Logar in Nicosia with his counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. The Slovenian ...

A group of 46 academics have set up a body titled the Society of Biological Sciences in Cyprus (SBSCy) whose objective is to bring together scientists within the community under one ...

Paphos police are investigating a fatal accident on Friday night in which a motorcyclist was killed in the town. The victim was 25-year-old Viktoras Paraskevopoulos from Greece, a permanent resident ...

Police booked 147 people in the past 24 hours from 11,500 checks for Covid violations. Police said 39 fines were handed out to people for not wearing a mask outside, six for not wearing ...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 133 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. The deaths concerned an 88-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman with underlying conditions. Both died in Nicosia ...

The health ministry on Friday published a list of private labs that carry out rapid antigen Covid-19 tests which do not require PCR confirmation. Positive coronavirus cases detected by rapid ...

Akel on Friday blasted the EU’s coronavirus vaccination programme as a massive failure with serious repercussions on public health and the societies and economies of Europe. In a strongly ...

In a further escalation of a bitter row over Cyprus’ golden passports, Diko and Akel on Friday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of not telling the whole truth about his holidays ...

Central Bank governor Constantinos Herodotou on Friday urged MPs not to tamper with the foreclosures legal framework but to focus on how courts can more quickly deal with financial disputes ...

Four Limassol nurseries were evacuated after receiving emails warning of a bomb on Friday in a replay of what occurred in Nicosia a day earlier. The Cyprus News Agency reported ...

As part of measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, the transport ministry has published new guidelines for public and private transport effective from Friday. It said that ...

Akel’s Nicosia municipal councillors on Friday slammed a postponement the previous evening about how to handle the demolition of houses in the centre of Nicosia by the Archbishopric. It ...

The health ministry announced five deaths and 116 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday. The deaths concerned four men aged 81,73, 86 and 71, and one woman aged 84. All had underlying conditions. All died ...

The rapid testing site operating on Thursday in the industrial area of Ayios Athanasios, in Limassol has been transferred to the Cultural Centre of Ayios Athanasios due to the weather, ...

Two Nicosia nurseries were evacuated on Thursday morning after receiving an email threatening to blow them up unless they paid a ransom. The first email was received in the morning ...

The British examination board Pearson Edexcel International announced on Wednesday that its international exams would not go ahead as planned this summer. This will affect hundreds of students at private ...

The relocation of the civil registry and migration department in Nicosia to 90 Makarios Avenue has begun, it announced Due to the relocation public service points will remain closed from February 10 ...

The health ministry has announced the rapid testing sites for Thursday. The sites will be serving people who will return to their workplaces on February 8 and the general population. Since ...

The health ministry’s public health service ordered on Wednesday the recall of a brand of brown rice from the Cypriot market due to high levels of ochratoxin A. Ochratoxin ...

Prospects for the upcoming UN-led meeting on Cyprus settlement will be the main focus of British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s first official visit to Cyprus, where he will meet ...

Rapid antigen tests will continue on Wednesday for the general population as well as for employees returning to work on Monday, February 8. In the latter case, all employees must be ...

People aged 83 and over will be able to book a coronavirus vaccine on the vaccination portal from 9am on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The vaccination portal had ...

President Nicos Anastasiades testified under oath on Tuesday that he never favoured any foreign investor seeking a Cypriot passport, and denied any conflict of interest or quid pro quo in ...

Monday’s easing of the lockdown saw more than 22,000 people head for a haircut of to the beautician, making the best of the first opportunity in three weeks to spruce ...