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Justice Minister Stefi Drakou on Friday sought the support of main opposition party Akel to move forward on the much-awaited justice reform bills and a legal framework to combat corruption. ...

The health ministry announced six deaths from Covid-19 and 324 new positive cases on Friday, while there are 159 in hospitals. Those who died were all men while one of them, aged 89, ...

Demands tabled by Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot for the recognition of sovereign equality and of equal international status for the breakaway state hinder efforts to achieve a breakthrough, President ...

Temperatures remain stubbornly above the seasonal average, with the met office issuing yet another extreme high temperature warning, in force for Saturday from 12.30 noon to 4.00 pm. According to the latest ...

Amid continued friction over the decision by Tepak (University of Technology) to restrict in-class learning to the vaccinated and those who have recovered, there was an uptick of interest at ...

More than 200 kilos of rubbish, including machinery, carpets, and car tyres, were collected during a clean-up of the seabed and beach in the areas of Xylotymbou and Pyla and the ...

Four men were remanded in custody for seven days on Friday as Limassol police investigate the theft of a G3 military rifle, cash, and valuables from a Limassol home. The ...

Police booked 41 drivers and made three arrests during a road safety campaign in the Polis Chrysochous area on Thursday night, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. It said that ...

Hope for Children marked the 75th anniversary of the independence of India with a tree planting ceremony attended among others by House president Anita Demetriou, India’s High Commissioner in ...

Cyprus’ general government expenditure on defence in 2019 stood at 1.8 per cent of GDP, the fourth highest rate in the EU27 after Estonia, Greece and Latvia, according to figures published by ...

The Cyprus Post on Friday warned that fake messages asking for payment of custom duties are being sent to the public by email. “Cyprus Post has no involvement and urge ...

Costlier fuel internationally after the historic lows of 2020 is pushing up electricity prices, with consumers facing a 38 per cent increase in their August bills compared to the same month last ...

Closer ties between Cyprus and Japan, reflected in the opening by the two countries of embassies in each other’s capitals, played a catalytic part in the first ever repatriation ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced five deaths attributed to Covid-19, as the number of patients continued declining while testing yielded 254 new positives. The five decedents were four men – aged 71, 65, 47 and 84 – ...

Authorities stayed on standby on Thursday evening to contain a fire that broke out earlier in the day at the site of a factory in the industrial area of Yeri, ...

Temperatures will hit 40C inland again on Friday, the met office said on Thursday as it issued a yet another extreme high temperature warning. The latest yellow alert will be ...

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 ...