Jean Christou

A first of its kind study on the levels of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 among Cypriots who had Covid-19 has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Medicine. The study ...

The family of a four-year-old boy with a rare cancer are racing to put together the remainder of the money they need to take their son to America to take ...

No cases of the Covid Omicron variant found so far in Cyprus have needed hospitalisation, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Sunday during a visit to the Famagusta reference hospital. ...

South Africa’s Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday aged 90, visited Cyprus on a number of occasions more than a decade ago when he chaired a group of global peacemakers ...

The Cyprus issue, ongoing Turkish provocations, regional developments, the pandemic and Cyprus-Israel cooperation in the fields of defence and security, were among the topics discussed during Tuesday’s meeting between ...

Gesy treatment begins with your GP referral – a very dangerous situation when an emergency combines with an unavailable doctor You’ve spent two nights in excruciating pain. Come the third ...

Cyprus could be a ‘workshop of fraternity’, Pope says By Jean Christou and Jonathan Shkurko Pope Francis on Friday wished that Cyprus, an island “marked by a painful division” become ...

Pope Francis on Friday spoke of reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church during his visit with Archbishop Chrysostomos and the Holy Synod in Nicosia. “It is my ...

Forestry department personnel on Wednesday announced they would be staging a three-hour work stoppage on Thursday over understaffing and would protest outside the finance ministry followed by a march to ...

Turkey’s drift from the West and how it should be dealt with was discussed on Wednesday during a meeting at the House foreign affairs committee with the participation of ...

The transport ministry on Wednesday announced that it had received 159 applications for bicycles for the disabled and 7,515 for road and mountain bikes as the portal for the scheme reopened following ...

Around 65 per cent of Cypriots believe their lives will return to normal after the pandemic, according to a poll published on Sunday but the majority of those think it will ...

Opposition Akel on Sunday called for a meeting of the National Council to discuss a six-page document for a decentralised federation that was drawn up by the Greek Cypriot side ...

The island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the year, it was reported on Sunday. The ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Sunday launched a scathing attack on public service union Pasydy general-secretary Stratis Mattheou who blamed the government for a delay to the ongoing reforms process. ...

The costs for Cyprus will be significant if it does not adjust itself to the EU target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 under the ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Wednesday launched the multinational search and rescue exercise Nemesis 2021 with the participation of eight countries, including Cyprus. Speaking at the joint search and rescue coordination ...

The current overcrowding at the Nicosia central prisons requires the introduction of electronic tags, MPs at the legal affairs committee heard on Wednesday. According to committee chair, Nicos Tornaritis, who ...

Queues have formed at gas stations in the north after two companies, K-Pet and AlPet announced they would stop selling fuel as of Wednesday, reports said. The two companies announced ...

A draft resolution by the European Parliament has called for an in-depth investigation by member states’ authorities to investigate politicians whose names appear in the Pandora papers, with the draft ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minster’ Ersan Saner, whose National Unity Party (UBP) withdrew from the ‘government’ last week, has had to resign, effective immediately after a compromising video started doing the ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides leaves today from Budapest for Moscow where he is due to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, following an invite from the latter. Both at their ...

Ruling Disy has pledged there would be no return to the economic polices that led to the advent of food banks in Cyprus following the 2013 financial crisis on the island. ...