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By Abi Jackson How are you finding 2021 so far? Not too bad? Utterly brutal? There’s no right or wrong answer. Just as there’s no right or wrong answer ...

The president’s former law firm was among those probed by the Bar association in the past without finding anything improper, its chairman Christos Clerides told an inquiry into the ...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine should only be given to people aged between 18 and 64, Germany’s vaccine committee said in a draft update to its vaccine recommendation, a day ahead of ...

The agriculture ministry said on Thursday the creation of a green point in Avgorou was almost complete and that Sotira and Dherynia were next in line, following complaints by the ...

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that he is banning Vokswagen from official government service. The German automaker is in the process of pulling out of Turkey, after ...

EasyJet urged governments on Thursday to set out a plan for easing COVID-19 travel restrictions as the British airline warned its prospects had worsened for January-March and it could not ...

Wizz Air on Thursday announced the addition of three new destinations from/to Larnaca. There will be new routes to Oslo, Tel Aviv and Kharkov along with the allocation of ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that people aged 86 and above who have not yet reserved a slot will be able to book their Covid-19 jab on the government vaccination ...

The decision to ban access to nature trails, the forests and mountains as part of measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus is illogical and restricts human rights, the Green ...

Manchester United have condemned the ‘mindless idiots’ who racially abused Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial on social media and have called for stronger measures “to prevent this kind of behaviour”. ...

By Sarah Coyne We all have that go-to takeaway that we rush to when the urge to cook is not there! And with all restaurants closed we find ourselves frequenting ...

Nearly 700 calls were made to the Cyprus internet safety portal’s 1480 hotline from October 1 to December 31, 2020, marking a 140 per cent increase from last year’s figures. Operated by the Cyprus ...

School teachers on Thursday demanded to be included in the free vaccination programme of the government in light of the reopening of schools on January 8. “We believe that since we ...

Pressure from big business has kept small retail outlets closed until February 8, the union of small shopkeepers Povek claimed on Thursday. It said that, although all the information filtered down ...

The operator of a beach cafe in Kato Paphos has seen his case dismissed by the Paphos court, which found the local municipality had acted lawfully when they removed the ...

Cyprus Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Thursday that the island’s economy should rebound with 4.5 per cent growth, while unemployment should decline. Speaking at InvestCyprus’s 5th Cyprus International ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that the obligatory testing on workers who are already at their workplaces or will return next week has started. To cope with demand, the ...

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has defended himself against accusations he aimed racist comments at Inter’s Romelu Lukaku during the Coppa Italia quarter-final on Tuesday, saying there is no ...

Cyprus has dropped nine places to 42nd in Transparency International’s 180 global corruption index (CPI), it was reported on Thursday, hours before President Nicos Anastasiades is scheduled to announce measures ...

The Bar Association is set to sue the government over the easing of Covid restrictions announced on Wednesday that still limit the numbers of employees in workplaces to a skeleton ...

Russian investigators said on Thursday they had opened a criminal case into Leonid Volkov, a close ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, hours before a court was due to ...

After saying 10 per cent of the estimated 3,000 fraud investigations it would be dealing with each year would involve Cyprus, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said its figures had ...

When it comes to Valentine’s Day, a lot of people forgo the effort in favour of an easy takeaway meal in front of the TV, but with 2020 being such ...

Vandals have destroyed new benches placed at a viewing point in Aglandja with a view of the Pentadaktylos mountains, the municipality announced on Thursday. Aglandja municipality posted pictures on social ...