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Police renewed their calls on the public to be an alert for missing 17-year-old Alissa Pitt, a Cyprus resident born in Britain, as she has now been absent since December 2. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has thanked the parliamentary parties for voting in favour of the 2023 budget, providing €11.29 billion for general government expenditures. After the House session which passed next year’s ...

Cyprus detected 3,853 new coronavirus infections from 70,518 tests in the past seven days, a positivity rate of 5.47 per cent, the health ministry’s weekly report showed on Friday. Over the last ...

Police in Paphos on Friday are investigating an attack on a 29-year-old man, who claimed three people beat him and sprayed him with an object emitting harmful gases. According to ...

A Limassol travel agency alleged that it was hacked with the perpetrators falsely purchasing 31 tickets from Senegal to Morocco at a cost of €30,000. The agency reported the incident to the ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Jazz, swing, rock, chamber music – this season has it all. As bands, musical ensembles and orchestras prepare for their end-of-the-year shows, the local music scene is bursting with performances right ...

In today’s episode, trade unions representing workers at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus have announced measures as of next week that could potentially lead to rolling power cuts, including ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Thursday announced that its upcoming annual general meeting, which will take place on December 19 in Nicosia, will also commemorate the chamber’...

The East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) this week announced that it has decided to approve the proposal of the Cypriot Presidency of the forum for the creation of a Scientific ...

New schemes providing incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles are expected to be announced within the next two weeks, the transport ministry said. About 2,500 applications will be approved as ...

A lunar sample collected 50 years ago during the United States’ Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 and designated for Cyprus is now on the island, and will be on public display this ...

The House on Thursday gave the nod to the state budget for fiscal year 2023, in what was parliament’s final act of the year before going into mandatory recess ahead ...

By Elias Hazou and Sarah Ktisti The House on Thursday decided against cutting funding to activities or foundations commemorating Eoka leader Georgios Grivas, as supporters of the historical figure mounted ...

Cyprus has secured one more great success in the space sector, as a Cypriot team won the first international prize for Local Impact in the Nasa International Space Apps Challenge. ...

As Christmas day draws closer, more and more festive events are popping up across the island, sprinkling holiday spirit in every corner. Engomi municipality and the Mall of Engomi are ...

Larnaca’s municipal council on Thursday announced free parking for motorists at a number of hotspots in the coastal town over the Christmas and New Year period. Free parking will ...

A number of roads in the capital Nicosia will be closed to traffic from 4pm on Saturday, December 10 and from 6am to 1pm on Sunday, December 11 in light of this ...

The health ministry on Thursday published information on Streptococcus type A infection in light of recent child deaths in the UK, but clarified that similar incidents have not yet been ...

Russians living in the north of the island on Thursday called for direct flights to Russia. The president of the ‘Northern Cyprus Solidarity Association of Russian Speakers’, Marina Kocadal, told ...

A programme that collects used cooking oil from households to convert it into biodiesel re-launched on Thursday after five years of inactivity. The mobile unit of environmental education by Akti ...

By Elias Hazou and Jonathan Shkurko Trade unions representing workers at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Thursday announced measures as of next week that could potentially lead to ...

In the foothills of Machairas, one village has it all, finds PAUL LAMBIS. So much so the young people chose to stay The most beautiful things are, as they say, ...

The contentious sex education law will be referred back to parliament as the attorney-general has deemed it unconstitutional, the government said on Thursday. Nonetheless, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou will be ...