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The health ministry announced one death and 463 positives for Covid-19 from 31,677 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 1.46 per cent. The death concerned a man aged 80 who had ...

Two fires in Nicosia were under control on Saturday afternoon, the fire services said. One close to the Stelios Ioannou foundation in Strovolos, Nicosia, spread across five donums of land ...

Cypriot craftsmanship has taken its place in the Homo Faber Guide, an online platform dedicated to showcasing local talent. The island’s participation, starting with 15 artisans, was announced on Tuesday ...

The health ministry has issued the testing sites for Saturday as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Limassol (16 units) Agios Ioannis Eleimon Church, Limassol 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. ‘...

Russia said Thursday it supported the internationally acknowledged basis for a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution in Cyprus and reform of the guarantees system, one of the most thorny issues of ...

A cyber safety help line coordinated by the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute received calls from 683 individuals in the first quarter of 2021, but more than half of these concerned Covid-19 and not ...

New Zealand cheesemakers are upset over moves by the European Union to grant exclusive use of the term halloumi to the Cypriot producers, NewstalkZB reported on Thursday. Earlier this month, ...

Police officers and cadets gave blood on Thursday to boost blood banks which last week had issued an urgent appeal to donors amid depleted stocks. According to an announcement, police ...

Cyprus had by April 26 taken delivery of 436,040 doses of Covid-19 vaccines the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday citing a document distributed in the committee of permanent representatives (COREPER). It ...

During the month of April the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has exhumed additional human remains at an excavation site in Bellapais in the north, bringing the total ...

A fire that broke out in the industrial area in the Larnaca district was brought under control late on Thursday, but not before it gutted a warehouse. Fire service spokesman ...

More than 35,000 animals have been slaughtered for the Easter table this year, some 8,500 more than last year as consumers opt for local meat because of costlier imports. Veterinary services head ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday that Turkish Cypriot and Turkish positions for the resumption of talks violate the UN mandate for a settlement. Speaking to reporters in Geneva at ...

Police said Thursday 27 cases connected to sex crimes have either been investigated or were under investigation by the force’s task force. Spokeswoman Eleni Constantinou said 14 cases have been filed ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, he told CyBC on Thursday. The minister said he had undergone tests as a precaution earlier this week ...

The Sovereign Area Base Police Community Units in both the Eastern and Western Sovereign Base Areas on Thursday completed the distribution of food and toiletries to 265 financially strained families in ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 62 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

The funeral of the former leader of Edek Vassos Lyssarides will be held on Wednesday May 5, the party announced on Tuesday. Lyssarides, a central figure in Cyprus politics since the ...

Two people died from Covid-19, as 760 new infections were detected in the past 24 hours after 42,877 tests, the health ministry said Tuesday. In a written statement, the ministry said 292 people were ...

Police are investigating 12 cases of driving under the influence of drugs after traffic checks carried out in the two-week period of April 10 to 27. In an announcement on Tuesday, they said ...

A 27- year-old man is in the ICU of Limassol Hospital after suffering a heart attack while swimming in Paphos, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. It said that ...

Cyprus has ramped up its vaccination capacity to 14,000 jabs a day, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said Tuesday, as GPs were being recruited to administer jabs at their practices. The minister ...

A 61-year-old crewmember of a fishing boat airlifted to Larnaca hospital overnight after a heart attack has died, reports said Tuesday. The man, an Italian national, had to be airlifted ...

Discoveries at the Chalcolithic site Palloures, Cyprus will be presented to the public in free, online symposium next month, it was announced on Tuesday. Since 2015, a team of archaeologists from ...