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Police fined 24 people, including one business owner, for violating coronavirus measures after 4,757 checks across the island in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Saturday. The majority of checks concerned ...

Set in the Cyprus of the 1950s, GOLDIE and the Power of Love is written in both English and Greek Cypriot. Alix Norman finds out more about a favourite goat, ...

Corruption remained the number one problem for people whose majority also believe that an acceptable and viable solution of the Cyprus problem was out of reach, according to a survey ...

Cyprus’ improved epidemiological picture might help put the country on Britain’s green list within one or two weeks, a tourist industry professional said on Friday. The significant drop in ...

A man, 40 and his wife, 42, will be prosecuted for manslaughter in connection with the murder of Lyubisha Ristoski, 36, who was found dead last Sunday in the couple’s apartment in ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos with Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Friday briefed the mayors of Dherynia and Sotira on a tender announcement for improvement works on the road connecting the ...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 135 new cases of Covid-29 on Friday from 79,545 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 0.17 per cent. The deaths concerned two men ...

The European Commission on Friday welcomed the provisional political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the Regulation governing the EU Digital COVID Certificate. This means that the ...

The Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and the Paphos and Larnaca castles were illuminated in blue and purple on Friday to raise awareness of Huntington’s disease. May is Huntington’s ...

The bicommunal technical committee on health, which held a video conference on Friday, failed to agree on a mechanism to reopen the crossings, prompting a backlash at the stance being ...

A British Cypriot who was drunk and tried opening the emergency door on a flight from Cyprus has been jailed for 11 months in the UK. Alexandros Christou, 21, admitted in Bristol ...

A second peaceful protest, a global ‘freedom rally,’ against the violation of fundamental human rights and tyranny in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic will be held in Paphos on ...

Cyprus has notified the EU it cannot accept any more irregular migrants, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Friday as authorities scrambled to accommodate some 200 new arrivals in a few ...

The health ministry announced a total of 85 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Cyprus’ recovery and resilience plan is a new economic growth model without social exclusions, which continues the reforms and policies that have been implemented in the past eight years, Labour ...

Cyprus has submitted a full report to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding the serious thrombotic incident which afflicted a 39-year-old British woman. The incident was first reported on Thursday, ...

Pancyprian examinations started on Friday with special arrangements for Covid-19 cases, contacts and those who did not present a negative coronavirus test. The first subject was biology starting 8am to 11...

An island wide clean-up campaign was launched by Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis in Anavargos village in Paphos on Friday. The campaign, “See it clearly,” is organised by the ministry in ...

The Republic’s appeal against the acquittal of two men accused of raping a Welsh tourist in Cyprus in 2016, was unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court. The two defendants faced ...

Cyprus’ cumulative diagnosis rate for Covid-19 fell to below 500 per 100,000 residents, reflecting the improved epidemiological picture of recent days, the health ministry’s weekly report showed on Friday. The better ...

Police on Friday arrested the captain and two passengers of a vessel with irregular migrants spotted off the coast of Cape Greco two days ago, while another 14 were picked up ...

A 50-year-old Greek national died in Nicosia hospital after a brawl broke out with two other people, with police investigations underway. The incident occurred along Kalipoleos, a main street in ...

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 – in audio form. Presented by ...

Two workers who were injured in Thursday’s blast at an electricity sub-station will be transferred to Athens and Leipzig for further treatment. According to reports, the two workers from ...