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Former Edek MP Yiorgos Varnavas said on Tuesday he would run for party president in the October 24-25 party conference. In thinly veiled barbs against incumbent president Marinos Sizopoulos, Varnavas ...

The findings of a probe into complaints against police violence during a protest in Nicosia last February against the restrictive pandemic measures were delivered on Tuesday to the independent committee ...

The met office on Tuesday issued a new extreme high temperature warning, the second in as many days, with temperatures forecast to hover around or above 40C for several days. ...

A new €90m national action plan aims to ease Cyprus’ transition to a less wasteful, eco-friendly circular economy, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Tuesday. She, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis ...

Green Dot’s recycling programme should cover 90 per cent of the population by 2023 the environment service said on Tuesday as it announced that the service will be extended to Voroklini ...

Cyprus star Pavlos Kontides leads the standings after the sixth race in sailing’s laser category at Tokyo 2020 on Tuesday. The Cypriot, who won the silver medal at London 2012, scored ...

Applicants for minimum guaranteed income are sometimes subjected to delays and impersonal treatment from the government department responsible for welfare payments, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides has found. In a report published ...

Paphos District Post Office will remain closed on Tuesday due to a Covid -19 incident, Cyprus Post said on Tuesday.

Turkish Cypriots who abandoned their property in the south have the right to receive an equivalent property in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Monday. The statements ...

Marking five years of its ‘No More Ransom’ project, Europol on Monday launched a revamped website that allows easy access to decryption tools and other help in over 30 languages. The ...

Rules that have allowed Cypriots and permanent residents to opt to do their PCR test on arrival at Larnaca and Paphos airports will change from August 1 to cover only specific ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid expressed his deep concern over Turkey’s ‘provocative actions in Cyprus’, referencing the move to reopen 3.5 per cent of Varosha. Lapid’s comments were made ...

The met office on Monday issued a yellow weather warning over high temperatures. The warning covers the period between 9pm Monday and 4pm Tuesday. According to the met office, the ...

The Supreme Court added another year to the jail sentence handed down to a man convicted of child pornography after finding that the four-year term imposed for offences involving children ...

The EAC board welcomed Energy Minister Natasa Pilides to Vasiliko power station on Monday to showcase investments to protect the environment by reducing carbon emissions in compliance with EU directives ...

Three countries – Switzerland, Estonia and Israel – have been downgraded from the Green to Orange category for arrivals to Cyprus while Denmark and Ireland have been transferred from Orange to Red ...

The health ministry will scrap free antigen rapid tests for the general population from August 1, although those under 16 and some other population groups will still be entitled to them, it ...

About 65 per cent of hospitality venues are currently in operation islandwide, while business is at around 50 cent, the head of one of the business associations representing the sector said on ...

The coronavirus pandemic led to a 15 per cent drop in the number of actual hours worked in Cyprus in 2020 compared to 2019 – more than the EU27 average of 12 per cent, according ...

Paphos is the seventh cheapest holiday destination in Europe for British travellers, according to the latest British Post Office Travel Money survey. The survey covered 16 destinations in Europe, 13 in the ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday and that 727 more people had tested positive from 73,053 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1 per cent. The deaths ...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the justice ministry on Sunday to protest Covid restrictions and for the release of those arrested during the week in connection with an attack on ...

Pavlos Kontides finished in fourth place in the first and only race in the men’s sailing laser competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. The race was won by ...

Cypriot shooters got underway at the Tokyo Olympics with some positive displays on Sunday. In men’s skeet qualifying, Dimitris Constantinou and Giorgos Achilleos are in 12th and 14th positions ...