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Name: Styrax (Styrax benzoin) Otherwise known as: Gum Benjamin, Benzoin Habitat: A tree member of the Styraceae family growing up to 15m in tropical forests and native to South East ...

Eight persons arrested in connection with the clashes between migrants at the Pournara reception centre on Monday have been remanded for eight days, police said on Thursday. The clashes on ...

The House education committee plans to propose to the government to introduce sanctions on colleges whose third-country students abandon them as a compromise to a visa clampdown imposed a few ...

Six people, including a 28-year-old woman with underlying problems, died from Covid-19 and 227 new cases have been detected from 13,298 tests, a positivity rate of 1.71 per cent, the health ministry said ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said that unless the coronavirus vaccines reserved for his community are delivered directly via the EU and not through the Greek Cypriot side, ...

By Nick Theodoulou and Evie Andreou The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called on Wednesday for the Pournara migrant reception centre to be decongested after a 600-person brawl ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday discussed developments on the Cyprus problem and the latest UN reports on Unficyp and the Good Offices mission in Cyprus with the UN’s special ...

The cabinet on Wednesday rubberstamped rent relief measures for businesses stricken by the Covid crisis, which include a 70 per cent temporary discount for two months if the landlords are private ...

Cabinet on Wednesday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to launch a social dialogue on establishing a national minimum wage when conditions allow. According to deputy government spokesman Panayiotis Sentonas, cabinet ...

A section of the Limassol to Nicosia motorway near Kornos closed to traffic for an hour at around noon due to a traffic accident involving the collision of two cars. ...

Police on Wednesday said they were investigating a spate of burglaries of businesses in Paphos. Two of the businesses, a silverware shop and a photography studio, are on the same ...

Grocery shopping remains the most popular category for which people ask permission to leave their homes, according to the data Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy. In total 380,199 ...

More than 103,000 visits to the fenced area of Varosha were recorded since October when part of it opened to the wider to the wider public, reports said on Tuesday. According ...

Police on Tuesday evening seized a drone carrying drugs that was spotted hovering in Ayios Dhometios, near the crossing point. Police were tipped off by a resident who noticed the ...

THE interior ministry on Tuesday condemned clashes between more than 600 migrants on Monday night at the overcrowded Pournara reception centre outside the capital, which left 35 people injured and caused considerable ...

The health ministry announced the testing sites for rapid tests for Wednesday. District Testing Sites Time Limassol Mesa Geitonia Cultural Center (near Apostolos Andreas Church) 8.30 a.m.-5 p.m. ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 259 new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday from both PCR and rapid testing. The deaths concerned three men 60, 78 and 91 and ...

The health ministry on Tuesday issued further clarifications as regards the lockdown and permissions to go out. According to the ministry, the purchase of alcoholic beverages from restaurants is not ...

Health authorities have deployed an additional 28 beds at Larnaca hospital’s fifth floor that will be used for the treatment of Covid patients whose numbers are expected to rise in ...

Cyprus’ health system was faring well so far despite increasing pressure because of the coronavirus pandemic, state health services organisation (Okypy) said Tuesday, rejecting criticism from health professionals that it ...

Peyia Mayor Marinos Lambrou said Tuesday he opposed merging with other communities in the area as part of a plan to reform local authorities and wants to continue the municipalities ...

Police on Tuesday issued a missing child bulletin for 15-year-old Maria-Chrysi Kassianidi who was last seen the previous day. According to police, the teenager has been missing from her place ...

Paphos police detained a 22-year-old on Monday evening in connection with driving under the influence of drugs and other offences. Police said the man was arrested after he failed to ...

Police in the Famagusta district detained a 52-year-old man on Monday in connection with a Christmas Eve bomb explosion at a residence. It followed the arrest of another male suspect, 35, ...