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Cyprus’ public debt reached €26 billion, or 124 per cent of GDP at the end of February, pushed by increased government borrowing to support the economy amid the crisis caused by the ...

By end of April the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will have identified a number of remains, Leonidas Pantelides, Greek Cypriot Member in the Committee told the Cyprus News Agency ...

Cyprus has asked EU borders agency Frontex marine patrols to halt migrants sailing from Turkey`s southern coast to the island`s north Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said, speaking during ...

Police booked 119 individuals and four establishment owners for violating Covid measures. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours ending 6am Saturday, officers carried out 11,160 checks. In Nicosia 23 ...

Cyprus Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides participated in a Ministerial virtual conference on the “Task Force Takuba” operating in Mali. A press release issued by the Defence Ministry noted that Petrides ...

Life expectancy at birth has been increasing by more than two years per decade since the 1960s but latest available data suggest it has stagnated or even declined in recent ...

The State Department has issued further sanctions against Turkish defence industry SSB, its president and other officials over the possession of Russian S-400 missiles. A press release said the Secretary ...

A Turkish hacker unsuccessfully tried to attack a Larnaca airport server, a source told CNA, noting that the attack was confirmed during the early hours of Saturday. The same hacker ...

Foreign Minister, Nikos Christodoulides, will pay a working visit to Serbia on Monday, for talks with the country`s political leadership. During his visit, Christodoulides will receive the Order of ...

Someone unsuccessfully tried to hack the Defence Ministry website last week, reliable sources told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. “The effort was successfully halted and the website suffered no ...

A delegation from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CoE) will monitor the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Cyprus, from 29 ...

A total of 700 borrowers with non-performing loans (NPLs) amounting to about €173 million were deemed non-viable for loan subsidisation under the Estia scheme, sources told the Cyprus News Agency on Friday. ...

Foreign Minister, Nikos Christodoulides, has said that April 27, when an informal conference on Cyprus begins in Geneva, constitutes a crucial milestone for the Cyprus problem and EU-Turkey relations, as Turkey`...

President Nicos Anastasiades and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held a meeting Wednesday in Athens during which Cyprus issue and bilateral relations were discussed. Anastasiades referred to the importance of ...

The vaccination centre operating at the Cyprus State Fair grounds in Nicosia, is carrying out 1,400 vaccinations a day, health official, Maria Roka, said on Wednesday, adding that 30-35 healthcare workers ...

Beijing is committed to respecting the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Cyprus, Chinese Ambassador Liu Yantao assured House President Adamos Adamou during a meeting on Tuesday. Adamou and Liu ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will attend celebrations organised in Athens for Thursday, to commemorate 200 years since the 1821 Greek War of Independence. Anastasiades will represent Cyprus at the military parade that will ...

The effect of illegal carnival gatherings last weekend and the relaxations of measures last Tuesday will start to be seen by the epidemiological team as of this coming Tuesday, a ...

EU Turkish relations will be discussed by the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, for which Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides will depart later on Sunday. The Council will ...

The exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue “must reach a satisfactory conclusion and cannot go on endlessly – time is not ...

Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings or CI) said it has affirmed the Republic of Cyprus’ Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) and Short-Term Foreign Currency Rating (ST FCR) at ‘BB+’ ...

Police fined 169 people and eight establishments for violations of Covid measures during a total of 12,276 checks in the last 24 hours islandwide. In Nicosia there were 3,285 checks and 32 people were booked. ...

The Electricity Authority (EAC) is ready to move into a new energy era with the use of natural gas and renewable energy sources (RES), chairman of the board Michalis Komodromos ...

Cyprus’ traditional cheese halloumi is now at the final stage to be registered as an EU product of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Minister of Agriculture Costas Kadis, told CAN ...