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The European Commission announced on Thursday the disbursement of €157m to Cyprus in pre-financing, as part of the funds and loans to be provided under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (...

Cyprus remains on the list of red countries with a high notification rate, testing rate and positivity rate for Covid, according to the latest map released on Thursday by the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday said the government will in the following months announce a new incentive scheme for attracting high-tech companies that will facilitate the establishment and hiring of ...

Issues raised by Turkish Cypriots about obtaining an EU digital Covid-19 certificate and tests at the crossings have been put to the bicommunal technical health committee, it was reported on ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), professional regulatory bodies and business stakeholders have agreed on ten steps to rationalise banking procedures. These include Know-Your Client (KyC) and client due diligence, ...

Ministers participating in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday will be briefed on the implementation of the reforms, projects and policies announced by President Nicos Anastasiades or which are included in ...

Cyprus’ Minister of Agriculture Costas Kadis held bilateral meetings with his Egyptian counterparts, Minister of Agriculture Al Sayed Al Qusair and Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad, on the sidelines of the ...

China and Cyprus should seize the opportunity of the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations to forge closer, strategic ties, China’s Ambassador to Cyprus Liu Yantao has told the ...

The technical committee that is working on the preparations for a joint gas pipeline project between Cyprus and Egypt will convene on September 15, the office of the Minister of Energy, ...

An Australian female politician seems to be the most favoured choice for the succession of the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and head of the UN peacekeeping force (UNFICYP) ...

Police booked 40 individuals and 11 businesses during the last 24 hours, for breaching the measures taken to contain the spread of Covid-19. A police spokesperson told CNA that a total of 3,652 checks ...

If the Turkish side changes the status of Varosha, then it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to reach a Cyprus settlement, the Ambassador of Greece to Cyprus, Theocharis ...

August this year was the hottest month in terms of average daily temperature since records began in Cyprus, it emerged on Friday. According to an announcement by the press and ...

The National Guard is taking part in a multinational exercise called Bright Star, currently taking place in Egypt. The Defence Ministry said the participation in the exercise, which will run ...

The National Council was meeting Wednesday morning discuss the latest developments on the Cyprus problem, ahead of the president’s trip to New York later this month where he will ...

The Greek Cypriot side stands ready to attend any meeting the UN Secretary-General wishes to convene on the Cyprus issue, either between the leaders of the two communities or with ...

Cyprus has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks at Kabul Airport. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist attacks at #KabulAiport, that caused numerous casualties ...

The first Cyprus-Egypt Intergovernmental Summit will take place on September 4 in Cairo, with the participation of the two countries’ delegations under their Presidents, Nicos Anastasiades and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The ...

Banks expect stricter lending criteria for households, unchanged criteria for lending to businesses and an increase in the demand for loans in all categories for the second quarter of 2021, the ...

Cyprus will host the 9th Ministerial Summit for the Environment and Sustainable Development Education of the Economic and Financial Committee of the UN in October 2022, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Christodoulides, travels to Israel on Sunday to take part in the Cyprus-Israel-Greece Trilateral Meeting, together with his counterparts from the two countries, Yair Lapid and ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will chair a meeting of the cabinet on Monday at the presidential summer residence in the Troodos mountains. According to CNΑ sources minsters are expected to discuss ...

Larnaca district court on Friday handed down a 30-day prison sentence to a 43-year-old man who crashed into another car while driving 14 times over the legal limit in Larnaca. The ...

The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) has criticised the Cyprus government for allowing hunters to shoot in an area where protected migratory birds fly, fearing a repeat of what they ...