Jonathan Shkurko

A 61-year-old man was arrested on Monday in connection with a case of a suspicious suitcase found outside the Presidential Palace in Nicosia on August 8. The police had to carry ...

Over 21 per cent of the population in Cyprus, corresponding to 188,000 people, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2019, according to a Cystat survey. In more detail, 21.3 per cent ...

The Green Party on Monday slammed the government for minimising the effects of a factory fire that broke out on Thursday in Yeri. According to official statements, the air quality ...

The education ministry on Monday said it is working on amending the legislative framework over the appointment of assistants for special needs students after the House education committee last week ...

Germany has been downgraded from Orange to Red, and Croatia from Green to Orange as the health ministry issued new country categories on Monday. It also upgraded Andorra and Malta ...

Germany will make up to 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday, more than doubling a previous pledge to donate 30 ...

A deadly attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday was carried out by a single suicide bomber at a gate to the airport and there was no second explosion ...

The International Paralympic Committee on Friday annulled the women’s 50m freestyle S11 final following a complaint from the Dutch team, hours after Cypriot Paralympic swimmer Karolina Pelendritou had been ...

Champions Omonia and cup winners Anorthosis discovered their European opponents on Friday as the draw for the newly-established Conference League took place in Istanbul. Omonia champions were drawn in Group ...

Cypriot Paralympic swimmer Karolina Pelendritou set a new world record on Friday in Tokyo with a time of 29.92 seconds in the women’s 50m freestyle S11, a first ever sub-30 ...

The European Union expects Novavax to submit data needed for the possible approval of its COVID-19 vaccine around October, an EU official told Reuters on Friday, in what could be ...

The number of Cypriots travelling abroad this year is low, according to the Association of Travel Agents President Vassilis Stamataris. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency on Friday, Stamataris said ...

About 90 per cent of patients with coronavirus who are hospitalised at the Famagusta referral hospital for Covid have not been vaccinated, Amalia Hadjiyianni, the facility’s scientific director said on ...

A Cypriot citizen wanted by the authorities since 2019 for financial crimes was arrested on Sunday in Germany and is being held there while awaiting extradition to the island. The suspect ...

A year before the recent catastrophic fire that burned nearly 55 square kilometres in the forest areas of Limassol and Larnaca and killed four people, employees at the forestry department wrote ...

Cyprus is close to the EU average as concerns the age at which young people leave the parental household, a Eurostat survey published on Thursday revealed. The survey marks “International ...

A fire which broke out in the forest area of Droushia, near Paphos, on Thursday morning has been contained, the Forestry Department said. The fire broke out at around 9.30am ...

Τhe met office has issued a new yellow warning for high temperatures. The alert will be in effect until 6am on Thursday. According to the warning, temperatures are not expected ...

Workers at DP World Limassol, which manages the general cargo and cruise terminals at Limassol port, went back on strike on Wednesday after the company decided to fire four employees. ...

The health ministry announced the deaths of five people from Covid and 484 new infections on Wednesday after 54,249 PCR and rapid tests. At the same time, 264 people were being treated in ...

The forestry department issued a red alert for fires on Wednesday as temperatures in the island are set to remain extremely high in the coming days. The department urged the ...

The customs department seized over 27 kilos of cannabis at Larnaca airport and confiscated 81,360 cigarettes for which no duty was paid during the month of July. On top of that, they ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said the government’s main aim is to reopen all schools in September to allow students to come back normally and physically attend their classes. “The ...