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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is expected to visit the north next week for consultations with the Turkish Cypriot leadership ahead of the five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, reports ...

Name: Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) Otherwise known as: Greek Hay, Bird’s Foot Habitat: An annual member of the Leguminosae family growing to 60cm in dry meadows and hillsides and native ...

Paphos police are to set up a special team to investigate domestic violence cases, it emerged on Thursday. According to the head of Paphos CID Michalis Ioannou in the next ...

Police said on Thursday they have arrested a 40-year-old Paphos man on suspicion of possession of drugs and antiquities. The man was detained following a search of his home where ...

The UN Security Council is expected to unanimously adopt a resolution renewing Unficyp’s mandate for another six months, until July 31, during a procedure expected to end on Friday afternoon ...

Lawyer Andreas Pittadjis, who stars along with the former House president and an Akel MP in the controversial video released last year by Al Jazeera in which they all appear ...

Employers and parents’ groups on Wednesday lambasted the government over the gradual relaxations of Covid-19 measures, saying they did not go far enough. The employers and industrialists’ federation (OEV) said ...

Three deaths and 128 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Wednesday. Hospitalisations dropped to 155 with 52 patients in serious condition. Thirty-three patients are intubated. The three deaths were one woman, ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called for action by the EU to make sure AstraZeneca treats the bloc the same way as its other customers after the company said ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos has once more caused a stir after he appeared to refer to himself and President Nicos Anastasiades as thieves while testifying in an inquiry into the citizenship by ...

Solving the Cyprus problem is a priority for the EU, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. The minister told the Cyprus News Agency that the informal five-party summit on ...

The government on Wednesday announced the easing of Covid restrictions, including reopening hairdressers and beauticians on Monday and primary schools and the retail sector on February 8. There will be mandatory ...

The defence ministry warned Wednesday that people of certain ages who have not reported for reservist duty, including those who have not provided the necessary documentation justifying their absence, could ...

Police have released a professional soldier arrested more than a week ago in connection with an explosion at a telecommunications company (Cyta) branch in Limassol in December, it emerged on ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill for the creation of a junior ministry for social welfare to house the welfare and social insurance departments currently under the labour ministry. ...

The energy ministry on Tuesday unveiled a subsidy scheme aimed at owners who want to upgrade their homes and make them more energy efficient. The scheme, whose first stage is ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities have imposed a lockdown in Nicosia and Kyrenia for a week and 14 days respectively in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the breakaway ...

The health ministry said on Tuesday its rapid Covid testing will be interrupted from Thursday to Sunday due to the government’s decision to ease restrictions. Around 40 testing units, with ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday and 109 new infections from 10,992 tests, a positivity rate of just under one per cent. The number of deaths since the ...

Former interior minister Constantinos Petrides told an inquiry he had never been a fan of the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which ultimately overturned the excellent image Cyprus had ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday began discussion of a bill designed to protect consumers from unfair terms included in bank contracts but also bad practices applied by large companies, ...