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A decision to charge everyone for PCR and rapid tests in the north has prompted protests, the Turkish Cypriot media reported on Thursday, saying authorities are under fire for backtracking ...

Six Cypriot SMEs were selected to participate in another five projects of the European Commission’s European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) for 2020, in what the defence ministry hailed as ...

Traffic at Larnaca and Paphos Airports is satisfactory, with some 670,000 passengers having flown to the island to date, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos told CyBC on Thursday. By the end of ...

Some 500 civil weddings will have been carried out in Peyia Municipality by the end of the year, while some bookings have been moved to a later date because of uncertainty ...

A Nicosia café was fined €4000 because the employee responsible for checking whether customers had a SafePass was not wearing a mask, the Cyprus News Agency said on Thursday. In another ...

The Department of Meteorology has issued an extreme high temperature warning, valid from 11.30 until 17.00 on Thursday. In issuing the yellow alert, it said that the maximum temperature inland is expected ...

A 47-year-old man from Paphos was fined €1,000 for drunk driving, police said on Wednesday. According to police, the man was stopped by Paphos traffic police around 2.35am on Wednesday. He ...

A total of 48 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

By Stefanos Messios Nicosia municipality on Wednesday announced that due to the continued works on the commercial triangle linking Makarios Avenue, Stasikratos and Evagoras Phase B, the section of Annis ...

A search was continuing on Wednesday to locate a migrant who jumped from a boat on Sunday off Paralimni after marine police intercepted a vessel with 18 people on board that ...

Two Paphos special constables have been released from custody after being charged with various offences on social media that involved threats against the city’s police chief. The pair, both ...

Another person, a man of African origin aged 23 has been arrested at Paphos airport with what police believe is a stolen passport. He was aiming to fly to Berlin in ...

In the last 24 hours, police fine 38 people and three businesses for violating the state’s rules on Covid-19. Police carried out a total of 2,949 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, 618 inspections were ...

A yellow warning for extremely high temperature will be in effect from 1pm, to 5pm on Wednesday, the met office said. Temperatures inland will reach 40C and hit 32C in ...

The health ministry on Tuesday recalled a brand of coconut milk due to high levels of a substance not compliant with EU regulations. The EU Rapid Alert System for Food ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu has been admitted in intensive care after feeling ill on Monday while he was at home. Turkish Cypriot media reported that Eroglu, 83, is in ...

Paphos police were seeking a 26-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of abducting a domestic worker earlier this month. The incident was reported to police on August 12 by the 42-year-old ...

A 32-year-old was arrested in Limassol on suspicion of stealing from a parked vehicle and then using one of the stolen credit cards, police said on Monday. The incident took ...

A total of 36 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Tuesday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

The health ministry announced that six people had died of Covid-19 and that 193 people had tested positive from 32,091 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.6 per cent. Seven positive ...

A total of 46 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Sunday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

A vehicle from the department of water development in Paphos was set on fire after the engine and gearbox were stolen, police said on Sunday. The vehicle was stolen sometime ...

Two men aged 20 and 25 were remanded for four days at Larnaca district court after attempting to travel with forged documents a day earlier, police said on Sunday. They were arrested ...

Police on Sunday said 23 citizens and seven businesses were booked in the past 24 hours for violating Covid-19 measures. Between 6am Saturday to 6am Sunday, there were 5,600 inspections across the country. ...