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Covid infections spiked across all ages in the week between December 25 and December 31, especially among youth groups, which saw up to sixfold increases over the previous week, as 16,530 cases were ...

Two men, aged 17 and 25, were remanded for eight days on Tuesday by Paphos district court in connection with a massive brawl in Paphos on Monday night that saw two people ...

Some 17,000 cubic metres of mining waste is being removed from Argaka’s Mavrali beach in the Paphos district as part of a clean-up of an environmentally important area, Agriculture Minister ...

Parliament on Tuesday rejected a presidential veto of a bill passed by opposition parties to cut VAT on electricity bills from 19 per cent to 9 per cent across the board for ...

An additional 32 ventilators were expected later this month to enter service at state hospitals while three intensivists from Greece were also expected, the state health services organisation (Okypy) said on ...

Nicosia municipal authorities said Tuesday that Boumboulinas Street in the centre of Nicosia will be closed for five months from January 10 due to construction work. The street is part of ...

Cyprus may take pride in its fresh fruit and vegetables but fares less well as regards consumption, with only 7.9 per cent of the population eating the recommended five portions or ...

Police said Tuesday they arrested a 51-year-old man in Paphos on suspicion of sending threatening emails to another man. The suspect, a resident of a village near Polis, was arrested ...

Police said they reported 18 individuals and seven businesses in the past 24 hours after they were found to be in violation of measures in place to stop the spread of Covid. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will be meeting government advisors on Tuesday to be briefed on the current epidemiological situation and discuss tighter measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, as ...

Starting Tuesday, everyone over 12 travelling to Cyprus must have a negative PCR Covid test conducted not more than 48 hours before their departure. The decision applies to all arriving passengers irrespective ...

Heavy rains in December have more than made up for a relatively dry start to the hydrological year, according to new figures issued by the meteorology department on Monday. These ...

Having completed conservation work at the archaeological site of Salamis in northern Cyprus, the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage has work planned for a number of churches and mosques ...

Two men armed with a gun and a knife robbed a kiosk in Limassol on Monday morning, police said. It was the third kiosk robbery in the space of a ...

Many Turks seem unaware of the location of Ercan (Tymbou) airport, after neither the contestant of a television game show nor a section of the audience knew it was in ...

The imminent reopening of schools hangs in the balance amid concerns, shared by teachers’ unions and pediatricians on Monday, that sending children back to class will only add fuel to ...

Limassol criminal court on Monday sentenced a 33-year-old man to five years in jail after finding him guilty in the manslaughter of Christakis Siakou in Moni in July. The defendant ...

Over two thousand third country nationals were deported last year, with the number doubling in the past two years, police said on Monday. Spokesman Christos Andreou said irregular migrant deportations ...

A woman driver escaped injury when her car overturned in an accident on a highway because she was wearing her seat belt, police said on Monday seeking to press home ...

Health authorities have decided to immediately deploy six more ICU beds at Larnaca general hospital and an additional six if needed later, as the Covid pandemic increases the pressure on ...

Hotel occupancies over the three-day Christmas and New Year weekends were around 50 per cent, director of the Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe) Philokypros Rousounides told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. ...

Paphos police have reported two motorists for driving under the influence of drugs in two separate cases on Sunday. Offices carrying out routine checks on Apostolos Pavlos Avenue at around ...

The Cyprus football association (CFA) announced the postponement of one more top-flight fixture on Monday because of the number of coronavirus cases in one of the sides. The CFA said ...

Limassol accounted for the bulk of violations on Monday as police booked 27 individuals and six business managers for breaking health protocols after carrying out 3,017 checks in the 24 hours ending at 6...