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The union of municipalities has asked for more clarity over the revenues that will be transferred to local authorities after the reform, as some villages still opposed mergers, a key ...

Prices have been rising for several months now, sparking indignant comments in the media and calls by opposition parties for government intervention. Preventing these rises has become the latest populist ...

There are no magic solutions to tackling the migration issue, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Thursday, stating the government’s determination to protect the country’s interests amidst reactions ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas will on Monday meet with the coronavirus advisory team, in an apparent bid to hash out differences in opinion as well as deal with the mixed ...

Authorities on Thursday announced no new fatalities from Covid-19, while nationwide testing found 264 people testing positive for the coronavirus. The official death toll stands at 587; earlier in the day, the ...

The health ministry has raised the number of fatalities due to Covid-19 by 10 to 587, after verifying the data reported by the epidemiological surveillance unit previously. The additional deaths concern seven ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday stressed the need for collective action to effectively improve economic conditions and the health sector with equal access for all to Covid vaccines. In a ...

A Larnaca court on Thursday sentenced three young men to 18 months in jail suspended for three years, in the bullying death of a 16-year-old in Larnaca in 2019 that was described ...

The Delta variant (Β.1.617.2) remained dominant among Covid-19 samples sent for sequencing to the ECDC and a private lab in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The Delta Plus sub-variant (...

The only plan being implemented in the Akamas is one of reducing the extent of the protected areas and conceding rights for large developments, the deputy chairman of the House ...

Beginning around March 2020, the government managed to take some action on clearing the backlog in asylum applications with the help of the European Asylum Support Office by hiring more staff ...

An eight-year-old girl with Covid-19 died in the north on Wednesday. ‘Prime minister’ Faiz Sucuoglu, in a post on social media confirmed reports of the girl’s death. “Unfortunately, an ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Wednesday sent out a message for the peaceful coexistence of all communities on the island during the inauguration of the Cyprus-Armenian Friendship Park in Nicosia. ...

A 27-year-old man is being investigated for aiding third country nationals enter the country illegally after being caught on Wednesday smuggling people in the government-controlled areas near Pyla and Oroklini. ...

One death from coronavirus and 275 new infections were reported on Wednesday out of 51,166 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.54. The death was of a man, aged 85. The number ...

The Supreme Court has expressed disagreement with a government bill creating a commercial court and an admiralty court because it did not provide for them to be two distinct entities, ...

The Legal Service and the interior ministry told MPs on Wednesday they needed more time to study a proposal to exempt parties’ political decisions from judicial scrutiny provided they were ...

A bill creating an independent anti-corruption authority will be put to the vote even if disagreements between parties continued to exist, House legal affairs committee chairman Nicos Tornaritis said Wednesday. ...

Turkey’s drift from the West and how it should be dealt with was discussed on Wednesday during a meeting at the House foreign affairs committee with the participation of ...

The health ministry clarified on Wednesday that the EU Digital Covid Certificate is valid for one year from the date of the EUDCC rollout, which in Cyprus took place in ...

The bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage (TCCH) has been awarded the 2021 European Heritage Award, in recognition of its key work in conservation projects. An event was held on Wednesday ...

A total of 22 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

The government is to seek the European Commission’s permission to suspend asylum applications from those entering the country illegally. The government made the announcement on Wednesday after an emergency ...

The transport ministry on Wednesday announced that it had received 159 applications for bicycles for the disabled and 7,515 for road and mountain bikes as the portal for the scheme reopened following ...