Archive 2021

A 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of using stolen cheques to purchase €5,500 worth of items, including electronics, police said on Friday morning. The case emerged after a 27-year-old electronics ...

A unique contemporary dance performance with eight professional dancers from Cyprus and abroad, closes off the series of parallel events of the Larnaca Biennale 2021. Titled Physical Landscape, Larnaca Biennale and ...

The postal services warned the public on Friday about a new online fraud attempt where scammers use a fake Cyprus Post e-mail address to ask for custom duties. It described ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

In today’s episode, we hear that further cuts to electricity bills are on the way to help households tackle the rise in prices. There are also positive developments on ...

A meeting of the foreign ministers of Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and France that takes place in Athens on Friday will cover recent developments in Eastern Mediterranean and the Cyprus problem, ...

Police booked 17 people for violating coronavirus measures after 2,424 checks in the government-controlled areas. The checks were carried out from 6am on Thursday to 6am on Friday. Most of the latest ...

Nicosia police on Friday were investigating the causes of a traffic accident that led to the serious injury of a 56-year-old pedestrian. The accident took place around 7pm on Thursday ...

Germany will limit large parts of public life in areas where hospitals are becoming dangerously full of COVID-19 patients to those who have either been vaccinated or have recovered from ...

Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Thursday the US government would pay $5.29 billion for 10 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 antiviral drug, as the country rushes to secure promising oral ...

Turkey’s central bank slashed its policy rate by 100 basis points to 15 per cent on Thursday and hinted at more easing despite inflation running near 20 per cent, accelerating a spiral ...

Inflation in Cyprus reached 4.4 per cent during October of this year, according to the European statistical service (Eurostat). Cyprus’ inflation figure is slightly above the European Union average of 4.1 per ...

Cyprus’ economy is recovering at a swifter rate than previously thought, with real GDP on track to reach pre-pandemic levels by the fourth quarter of this year, credit ratings agency ...

Car crashes and other related road deaths have claimed the lives of 39 people so far this year, as Cyprus appears to be stuck at about 50 such deaths a year – despite ...

The government appears to be on a mission to get the bills on the reform of the judicial system through the legislature. This is because the passing of these bills ...

Bitcoin is the top cryptocurrency that operates all its activities on a very high-end and secure public ledger known as blockchain technology. There is no denying that the security that ...

The United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday, a move that would be aimed at protesting China’s human rights ...

Police said there did not appear to be foul play in the death of 59-year-old Georgios Kyriakides, found dead in a ravine three days after he went missing from his ...

Greece joined several other European countries on Thursday in imposing more restrictions on those unvaccinated against COVID-19 following a surge in infections in recent weeks. From next Monday, unvaccinated people ...

Turkey on Thursday freed an Israeli couple who had been arrested for photographing President Tayyip Erdogan’s residence in Istanbul and accused of spying, an allegation denied by Israel. The ...

Despite the coronavirus pandemic Cyprus has made the most of opportunities, achieving good results in terms of passenger traffic and flights, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Thursday. His comments ...

Jurors in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse deliberated for a third day on Thursday, as the judge banned MSNBC from the courthouse because a man who said he ...

Authorities on Thursday announced one more death from Covid-19, while island-wide testing tracked 388 new positives to the coronavirus. The latest fatality is a man aged 66 who passed away on Wednesday ...

Social Welfare Minister Anastasia Anthousi on Thursday presented a three-year action plan to fight child sexual abuse and child pornography whose objective is the timely and fast identification of high-risk ...