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The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday two more exemptions to the text message rule, applying to those undergoing medical treatment and divorced parents visiting their children. Those under regular ...

The period elapsing between the two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be reduced from 12 to eight weeks, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. The decision goes into effect ...

Church and state appear at odds over the enforcement of rules regarding church services during the Holy Week. According to the latest decree, people will be able to attend church ...

Three new amendments to lockdown rules with regards to Easter were announced on Monday by the Health Ministry. Easter Sunday restrictions have been tweaked to allow members of more than ...

Based on the volume of applications received, overseas polling stations for the May 30 parliamentary elections will only operate in Athens, Thessaloniki and London, the Ministry of the Interior said on ...

Two women, aged 30 and 26, were arrested early Monday morning at Larnaca airport after police found more than 16 kilos of cannabis in their luggage. Customs officials and members of the police ...

They are only offered AstraZeneca shots By Antigoni Pitta While most attention over the vaccination programme has been on the constant portal system crashes and the AstraZeneca vaccine, those not ...

A dead monk seal thought to have been caught in fishing nets was found in the north by monk seal conservation group Spot. Haris Nicolaou, part of the government’s ...

Unions asked for more help on Saturday for the businesses that will be hit by the new lockdown that will come into effect on Monday, while political parties criticised the ...

Bishops have slammed the government’s measures for Holy week and have said on Saturday they will proceed with church services as normal. The Church is not bound by the ...

1Cyprus, an initiative supporting the reunification of Cyprus, addressed a letter to President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday in light of the upcoming informal five-party summit in Geneva. The purpose of ...

Three people were arrested in the Mackenzie area of Larnaca on Friday night as part of a police operation to prevent and combat serious organised crime. A coordinated operation was ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of possessing, circulating and creating counterfeit money. According to the police report, Nicosia CID received a complaint in early April about ...

Rustem Tatar, the father of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, passed away early on Saturday morning. According to reports from the north his funeral will take place later on Saturday, ...

The health ministry on Saturday issued three clarifications to the lockdown measures announced on Friday. The lockdown will last from April 26 to May 9 in an attempt to stem the rapid ...

Seven businesses and 172 people were booked between 6am Friday and 6am Saturday for violating the measures against the spread of coronavirus, police said. In total 11,335 checks were carried out in ...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal to reduce the sentence of a woman jailed for six years after pleading guilty to child trafficking in connection with the illegal ...

A total of 69 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

A total of 60 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, reached 100 per cent capacity for the second time this week, with a 28-year-old admitted, as the average age of hospitalisations continues to ...

The UK used to be among Cypriots’ first choices when it came to going to university, but things are changing. With Brexit done and dusted, gone are the days of ...

Tourist business owners in the Famagusta district staged a protest on Wednesday morning to complain about insufficient government support during the pandemic. The protest was attended by various unions and ...

Personal doctors trying to book appointments for patients were frozen out of the vaccination portal on Wednesday, family doctors association president Andreas Polinikis said. The portal opened on Wednesday morning ...

Air charter group Zela Aviation announced on Tuesday Zela Jet, a new airline offering private flights in Cyprus. Zela Jet was introduced by the air charter group, which has been ...