Cyprus

Cyprus is not planning any actions as regards the AstraZeneca vaccine and will wait for official results of an investigation into a batch that Austria stopped using following a death ...

After a nine-year impasse, Israel and Cyprus on Tuesday reached an understanding over gas reserves straddling their maritime border in a development hailed as a “breakthrough” by Israel’s energy ...

Several items and a quantity of cash totalling over €200,000 were stolen from a house in Yermasoyia, near Limassol, police said on Tuesday. According to the 25-year-old owner of the house, ...

Nicosia water board announced that there would be water cuts in Tseri municipality on Wednesday due to repair works of a pipe at the Mazera pumping station. The board apologised ...

The preliminary results of a study by the University of Cyprus found presence of the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the urban wastewater of Limassol, the town’s ...

The education ministry on Tuesday announced it would subsidise the purchase of laptops for needy students attending second grade of gymnasium and those attending preparatory evening classes for gymnasiums and ...

The average age of patients at Famagusta Covid hospital is 64, with the youngest one receiving treatment at the moment being 17, its director said Tuesday. On Monday there were 145 patients being ...

Police officers fined 11 people on Monday night, after they were caught celebrating a birthday at a house in Limassol with fireworks and loud music, in violation of the rules against ...

Cyprus Post has announced extended opening hours for its Nicosia district office on Prodromou Street due to the accumulation of large volume of parcels. The office will open normally at 8...

To date, 103,283 people in Cyprus have received at least one Covid vaccination dose and 29,821 were given both jabs, reports said on Tuesday. Among the 73.462 who received the first dose were 1,345 ...

A Paphos court has suspended the operation of a coffeeshop after a police raid found people gambling on the premises last month. The court also banned games of chance or ...

Paphos police on Monday fined eight people €300 each for gathering to celebrate an engagement at a house. According to police, the fines were issued not only for the illegal gathering ...

Exactly one year after the first two confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced in Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades and the scientific advisory team for Covid-19 are scheduled to have a ...

“Businesses in Cyprus support each other. It’s a real community,” comments Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO at Tototheo Maritime & President at WISTA International in an interview with the Cyprus ...

The committee of inquiry investigating the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme will resume its hearings on Tuesday, following a break of about a month. Next to testify will be Socrates Socratous, ...

The two main suspects in the killing of a 20-year-old man from Syria last April in Paphos pleaded not guilty on Monday to the charge of premeditated murder. The suspects, 22 ...

Parliament on Monday wrapped up discussion of a bill providing for severe penalties – criminal and otherwise – to persons or legal entities aiding and abetting the unlawful entry of persons into ...

The island’s two community leaders reiterated on Monday their divergent positions on a Cyprus solution during their separate meetings with UN secretary-general’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute who ...

The health ministry on Monday announced 352 new cases of the coronavirus out of 40,891 tests. The positivity rate overall is 0.86 per cent based on both PCR and rapid tests. In Limassol, ...

An opposition party said Monday it will table a bill that would make decisions taken by the financial ombudsman legally binding on banks. Angelos Votsis, of the Democratic Forces Cooperation, ...

The health ministry announced that 59 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Tuesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory weekly testing of employees. ...

Fear of losing their job is holding back women in private businesses from reporting sexual harassment, which is why most complaints concern the public sector, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on ...

Greece and Cyprus face similar challenges in managing the migration issue, ministers from both countries said on Monday after a meeting in Athens. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris met with Greek ...

Privately owned meat slaughtering plant Cypra appeared to know in advance about the state’s rescue plans for Kophinou abattoir and would file objections to the European Commission, Kophinou’s ...