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Health authorities expressed concern on Wednesday over the increasing number of Covid admissions, which appeared to get out of hand, as people were forced to wait at home to be ...

The Larnaca criminal court ruled on Wednesday that former Kition bishop Chrysostomos is mentally fit to follow proceedings in a rape case brought against him after he was reported by ...

Arsonists in the early morning hours, set fire to a room at the Limassol district court where evidence is kept, causing extensive damage to the contents, police said. Police were ...

The National Council is set to convene on Wednesday to assess the latest developments on Varosha with some parties calling for countermeasures against the announcement that part of the fenced ...

Limassol municipality announced that the parking lot of Molos 4 will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday for works. According to a statement by the municipality, the Molos 4 parking lot on ...

One death and 995 new coronavirus cases were announced on Tuesday, by the health ministry. A 76-year-old man is the latest death from Covid-19. So far 391 deaths were recorded: 260 men and 131 ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced it has recalled breadcrumbs from three different companies after it emerged they failed to include in the ingredients label the products contained sesame, which ...

The supreme court on Tuesday raised the prison sentence of a rapist from eight to 12 years, upholding a state appeal. The man had been sentenced to eight years in jail ...

Justice will sooner or later prevail, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday commenting on the announcement by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar that 3.5 per cent of the closed-off town of ...

A foreign press photographer was attacked by protesters last Sunday, who beat him and tried to take his cameras, the journalists’ union said on Tuesday. The union said Associated Press ...

The health ministry on Monday issued new country guidelines for travel, downgrading Malta from Green to Red and the Netherlands and Luxembourg from Orange to Red, among others. The changes ...

Rolling out stricter measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus will depend on hospitalisations, a member of the government advisory committee said on Monday. Professor of Microbiology and Molecular ...

A Larnaca man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday after he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of his 21-year-old sister with his army-issue G3 ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said they will never abandon efforts for a two-state solution nor the opening of Varosha, as the breakaway state in the north prepared to welcome ...

Such a leader would have to tackle the Cyprus problem, the pandemic and corruption By George Koumoullis Is there such a thing as a ‘benevolent dictator’? For Cypriots, the associations ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 74 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

The BeSafe incentive scheme to convince youths to vaccinate unveiled on Friday has been posted on the website https://www.presidency.gov.cy/cypresidency/besafe.nsf/home/home?Openform and ...

The north is preparing for the visit next week of Recep Tayyip Erdogan but some Turkish Cypriot parties announced they would shun the special ‘parliament’ session the Turkish president plans ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos expressed concern on Friday over the explosion in Covid infections as he urged people to vaccinate, saying it was dictated by Christian duty. Appealing to people’s patriotism, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades urged people to vaccinate against Covid-19 on Friday, saying it was not the government’s intention to divide the population between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, but ...

By Paul Lambis There is a rumour that the women in the village of Lefkara think they are rather special, some even classifying themselves as originally Italian, rather than Greek. ...

The Famagusta Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) on Friday called on workers to hold a five-minute stoppage on Tuesday morning in protest over Turkey’s actions in the fenced ...

The cumulative diagnosis rate of Covid-19 in the Famagusta district in recent weeks has reached 2006.1 per 100,000 population, more than double the national rate, according to the government’s latest epidemiology ...

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 ...