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The AstraZeneca vaccine, the first 7,200 doses of which are expected to be delivered on Monday, will be administered without any age restrictions, the health ministry said on Friday. Citing the ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides suggested that 18 citizenships granted to people linked to the company that won the casino resort concession in 2019 had been based on false data supplied by the finance ...

Many borrowers who opted to use a scheme suspending loan payments for nine months in a bid to cope with the financial fallout of the coronavirus were now restructuring them, ...

Edek and Citizens’ Alliance MP Giorgos Lillikas have asked for a week’s postponement to the vote on the parliamentary code of ethics to give them time to propose and ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Friday urged parents to encourage their final year children retuning back to school on Monday to get tested for coronavirus. Though the testing of pupils ...

By Paul Lambis American playwright and essayist, Arthur Miller referred to theatre as “an endless fascination that is so much like life.” Theatre most certainly explores the human experience: the ...

Cyprus ranked second among EU countries in terms of coronavirus testing per 100,000 members of the population during the last two weeks of January, it was announced on Friday. According to ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos has been accused of demolishing another listed buidling in the old town of Nicosia in 2018 without the municipality taking any measures against him since. The mansion had been ...

A child protection NGO on Friday slammed a Paphos court decision to release a man suspected of molesting two sisters pending his trial, raising the risk of them seeing him ...

The north will enter a full lockdown on Friday evening as cases continue to rise leading the authorities to question whether the health system could cope. The lockdown will start ...

Paphos municipality said on Friday it has removed 300 20-tonne trucks of construction and other waste from various areas in the town in recent days as part of a cleaning campaign. ...

Police in Limassol were on Friday investigating the arson of a luxury vehicle belonging to the chairman of second division side Aris, who will is also a candidate for MP ...

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 – in audio form. Presented by ...

Former foreign minister and member of the Cyprus negotiating team Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis expressed her disappointment on Thursday because she was not officially informed by the palace that she would not ...

The attorney-general has ordered the criminal prosecution of a state pathologist for refusing to carry out a post-mortem and not complying with the order of a coroner because of Covid. ...

Turkish Cypriot health authorities were forced to interrupt Covid screenings on Thursday morning after they were overwhelmed by the large number of people wanting to be tested, reports said. According ...

The government has started making payments to some 30,000 businesses and the self-employed as part of a state assistance scheme for direct cash grants to cover operating expenses. According to the ...

The UK will play a supporting role in helping to resolve the Cyprus problem, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday after a meeting in Nicosia with counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday refuted claims that the forced sale of public hospitals is on the cards unless the state health services organisation (Okypy) succeeds in putting its ...

Name: Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) Otherwise known as: Mad Dog Weed, Quaker’s Bonnet Habitat: A perennial herb of the Labiatea family growing to about 1m in moist woods and meadows ...

Paphos police were seeking a 23-year-old man on Thursday suspected of injuring another man with a knife during an argument. The incident, according to police, happened on Wednesday afternoon in ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has assessed that the state health services organisation (Okypy) will be unable to cover its budget deficit by 2024, the date when the state support is due to ...

One death and 139 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Wednesday. The health ministry said 126 people were in hospital. Thirty-nine are in serious condition with 23 intubated. The death was of 79...

More positive cases have been found for the Covid-19 variant first detected in the UK, but none for the variants from South Africa and Brazil, the health ministry said on ...