Cyprus

Police have charged four individuals in connection with a fake post on social media claiming a 12-year-old child had died after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. Spokesman Christos Andreou said the ...

Plaques honouring people from Strovolos who have been missing since 1974 were stolen from a memorial in the area on Sunday, the municipality announced on Monday. The plates were taken from ...

Limassol lifeguards on Monday urged the public to be wary of the beach’s dangers after a boy had to be rescued on Sunday. Following Sunday’s incident with the ...

New arrivals at the Covid hospital in Famagusta tend to be younger, while they often end up in high dependency units, its head said on Monday. “The Delta variant is ...

Paphos police have detained two men, aged 35 and 36, who had been living in the Republic without the necessary permits. The pair were arrested in Kissonerga on Sunday morning. Police said ...

Cyprus has ordered additional Moderna and Pfizer shots as the booster anti-coronavirus jab will be administered using mRNA vaccines, regardless of which jab people initially received, a health ministry scientific ...

A group of 88 migrants spotted off the coast of Famagusta on Sunday afternoon have been sent back to Lebanon, police said on Monday. One of them, who had jumped off ...

Health authorities moved Germany and Croatia from Green to Orange on Monday as regards travel, while Bulgaria, among others, has been downgraded to Red. The changes come into effect on ...

Four hunters were fined more than €10,000 in total for illegal hunting in Paphos, Nicosia and Limassol on Sunday, the game service told the Cyprus Mail. The fined included a 21-year-old ...

More green areas are set for Paphos as two linear parks and a €3.7 million park of colours are in the works. According to an announcement by the municipal council of ...

Two Famagusta-based pubs were fined €3,000 for allowing customers to dance, and serving them at the bar, police said on Monday. “Unfortunately, we still find businesspeople, owners and employees without a ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested late on Sunday on suspicion of committing six burglaries in the last three years in Nicosia. The arrest was carried out following evidence that emerged ...

The health ministry announced that six people had died of Covid-19 and that 193 people had tested positive from 32,091 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.6 per cent. Seven positive ...

Paphos airport has seen an increase in activity in the last couple of weeks as more flights arrive from the UK with passengers praising airport staff and the ease of ...

By Antigoni Pitta With world leaders bracing for a new humanitarian crisis after the Taliban’s lightning takeover of Afghanistan, the Cypriot government is worried about a potential influx of ...

Cyprus on Monday will be on red alert for forest fires, the forestry department said on Sunday, calling on the public to be particularly careful. In an announcement, it cautioned ...

A total of 46 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Sunday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci hit back on the weekend saying there was no vindication for President Nicos Anastasiades in his interview, as the latter had claimed. In comments ...

But poisonous toadfish might be beyond their grasp With more and more fish entering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, the EU is about to decide if it ...

A 46-year-old man in Nicosia was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after shooting at his 75-year-old neighbour’s home. According to police, the 75-year-old was doing some ...

The ancient trail between Bellapais Abbey and Kazafani has recently been obliterated in an effort to make a road, to the distress of many who now want it restored A ...

A vehicle from the department of water development in Paphos was set on fire after the engine and gearbox were stolen, police said on Sunday. The vehicle was stolen sometime ...

Two men aged 20 and 25 were remanded for four days at Larnaca district court after attempting to travel with forged documents a day earlier, police said on Sunday. They were arrested ...

Police on Sunday said 23 citizens and seven businesses were booked in the past 24 hours for violating Covid-19 measures. Between 6am Saturday to 6am Sunday, there were 5,600 inspections across the country. ...