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Educational programmes for primary school pupils will be shown on state-owned television channel Rik on Thursday and Friday, as part of a joint initiative by the education ministry and the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday there will be an orderly transition when Joe Biden takes office as president in less than two weeks, after Congress certified the ...

Jewellery worth €7,000 was stolen from a house in Tsada, Paphos on Thursday night. The theft was reported by the 60-year-old resident of the house. Paphos CID officers are currently investigating ...

The finance and labour ministries are working on revising the support schemes ahead of a new lockdown, expected to be announced on Friday as a means of further curbing the ...

Cardiologists said on Thursday that they should be put in a higher priority group for receiving the coronavirus vaccine because of the risk they run of contracting the virus from ...

A 32-year-old man is in critical condition in Nicosia general hospital after a labour accident in Paralimni, police said on Thursday. The man has a head injury and internal bleeding ...

Two men who attacked police officers on duty at Larnaca hospital early on Thursday are wanted while a third was arrested. According to police, the three men brought an injured ...

Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Snap Inc temporarily locked the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims ...

Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a stunning bid to overturn his election defeat. But after hours of chaos in which ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced four deaths from Covid-19 and another 573 cases through a total of 10, 201 PCR and rapid tests. The deaths concerned four men, two aged 76, one aged 79, ...

In a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he supports an informal five-party meeting to determine whether or not there is common ground between ...

A total of 3,901 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 since December 27 the health ministry announced on Wednesday. These were people included in the first phase of the vaccination plan and comprised ...

The cabinet has changed the scheduling for its meeting on Thursday to consider new measures, and the meeting will now take place on Friday, the presidential palace announced. The move ...

In 2019, over one fifth of people in Cyprus said they could not afford to heat their homes adequately in winter, third worst across the bloc, according to Eurostat. This was ...

The European Medicines Authority (EMA) will try to reach a decision on the approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, after failing to take a decision two days earlier. ...

Travellers from Britain ending their mandatory seven-day hotel quarantine period must make their own way back home, which in some cases could force them to flout the required further three-day ...

After the discussions about the epidemiological situation and scientific advisory team’s proposals for additional restrictions, President Anastasiades came up with a positive point, according to deputy government spokesman, Panayiotis ...

One more person died from Covid-19 and 569 new infections have been detected after 14,309 tests, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The number of deaths since March has reached 134 while 50 people ...

The advisory committee on Covid briefed President Nicos Anastasiades on the epidemiological situation on Tuesday and tabled suggestions to tackle the current surge in infections, which will be discussed by ...

Cyprus and the US on Tuesday signed a Declaration of Intent on strengthening cooperation on border security issues, while reaffirming a shared determination to continue to work towards achieving full ...

Larnaca Municipality saw 2020 revenue drop by €5.5m because of the coronavirus pandemic, mayor Andreas Vyras told the Cyprus News Agency on Tuesday. The municipality had budgeted for revenue of €23.8m ...

Last week 22 people with coronavirus died, making this the deadliest week since the beginning of the pandemic, the latest data released by the health ministry on Tuesday showed. According to ...

High school teachers on Monday said they were being discriminated against since they were being asked to be physically present at their workplaces compared to the rest of the civil ...

Efforts to persuade the three deputies of Edek to vote for 2021 budget, which was rejected by the legislature last month, resumed on Monday when Disy chief Averof Neophytou met the ...