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The health ministry is trying to find intensivists abroad to staff intensive care units (ICUs), which were struggling because of the high number of serious Covid cases, a senior official ...

AstraZeneca’s new antibody therapy reduced the risk of people developing COVID-19 symptoms by 77% in a late-stage trial, putting the drugmaker on track to offer protection to those who respond ...

A 58-year-old man will stand trial for the murder of his neighbour and the attempted murder of the victim’s father during an argument over a parking spot in Yeri ...

By Alexia Saoulli Before my twins were born, someone gave me a set of cards as a baby gift that I could use to write down their key milestones. Things ...

Rafael Nadal is the latest player to withdraw from the US Open having called time on his 2021 season. The 20-time grand slam champion, who won his fourth Flushing Meadows title ...

Taliban fighters hunting a journalist from Deutsche Welle have shot dead one member of his family and severely injured another, the German public broadcaster said, adding that three more of ...

Hotels in Famagusta saw occupancy rise to over 80 per cent in August, buoyed by Russian tourists but also Cypriot holidaymakers who opted to stay on the island rather than travel ...

A network of environmental organisations on Friday voiced opposition to the construction of a shooting range near the island’s largest reservoir, Kouris, saying it will pollute the area’s ...

The Cyprus Government Guarantee Scheme will offer low-interest loans to businesses of all sizes via Cyprus banks. It will become available with the enactment of the Amending Law “On the ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was “surprised” the club’s Premier League opener at Brentford last week was not postponed following a number of positive Covid-19 tests among his squad. It ...

Larnaca district court on Friday handed down a 30-day prison sentence to a 43-year-old man who crashed into another car while driving 14 times over the legal limit in Larnaca. The ...

The state has appealed as insufficient a seven-year prison sentence for a 73-year-old man who had been convicted of sexually abusing his underage grandchildren, the Legal Service said on Friday. ...

The chief of police is looking into an incident concerning two senior officers who initially refused to undergo a PCR test at Larnaca airport on Tuesday afternoon. Local media reported ...

Cyprus is among the 50 countries which signed a statement expressing concern about girls and women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. “We are deeply worried about Afghan women and girls, their ...

Continuing the weekly live music performances, Technopolis 20 has plenty more planned for the summer, even if we are reaching the end of it. But then again, the Cypriot summer goes ...

A woman, 32, and a man, 40, were remanded for five days on Friday on suspicion of stealing €12,000 worth of items from a Paphos home earlier this month, police said on Friday. ...

A total of 32,667 vaccinations have been administered in the past seven days, the health ministry said on Friday, as it announced that 77.2 per cent of the adult population has received ...

Manager Nuno Espirito Santo said Tottenham Hotspur had squandered their early season feelgood factor when they were stunned 1-0 by Pacos De Ferreira in the first leg of their Europa ...

A 28-year-old man was caught driving 191 km per hour on the motorway while eight times over the legal limit late on Thursday, police said. There were four passengers in the ...

The UK’s health regulator has approved an antibody cocktail developed by Regeneron and Roche to prevent and treat COVID-19, it said on Friday, adding it was trying to roll ...

Two million residents of Sydney will be under nightly curfew from next week to slow the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus that is spreading across New South Wales state, ...

Five businesses in Limassol and Paphos were charged €500 each for violating coronavirus protocols, police said on Friday. The businesses concern a pub and a mini kiosk in Limassol and a ...

Cyprus has the sixth most expensive bread and cereals in the EU27, according to figures published by Eurostat on Friday. The EU’s statistical office said that in 2020, the price ...

Paphos police have arrested a 54-year-old man as it investigates a case of assault and causing grievous bodily harm, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. This follows a complaint ...