Cyprus

Two men, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, were arrested in the north for cigarette smuggling and also face charges for entering a military zone. In a smuggling operation ...

Cyprus saw its highest number of Covid-19 hospitalisations since the outbreak earlier on Monday, while more admissions are expected in the upcoming days, the spokesperson of the state health services ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday he had a productive meeting at the presidential palace where he discussed his party’s conditions for backing the revised state budget for 2021 ...

The decision to go into lockdown in the north, announced on Saturday has been temporarily rescinded after the ‘government’ put its foot down citing the impact this would have on ...

Mothers from Dali called on the president on Monday to suspend the operation of the two Dali asphalt plants in the Ayion Constantinou and Elenis community. The small group of ...

Over 50 per cent of people over 80 have either received their first Covid-19 vaccine or are scheduled to receive it, senior health official Olga Kalakouta said on Monday. According to Kalakouta, ...

Charges against three defendants accused of falsely collecting cash from the state to help homeless people were dropped by the Limassol criminal court on Monday because of the absence of ...

Improvement works to the water supply of parts of Nicosia began on Monday, the Water Board of Nicosia and Strovolos municipality announced. In a joint statement, they said maintenance and ...

More people requested outings via SMS on Sunday than Friday and Saturday, the deputy ministry of research, innovation and digital policy announced on Monday. While a total of 449,129 people asked ...

There will not be any consequences for parents who choose not to take their children to kindergarten and pre-primary school amid the pandemic, the Pancyprian confederation of parents’ association for ...

The Committee of Occupied Municipalities said on Monday that Turkish-occupied municipalities on the island will never accept a two-state solution or a confederation that will seal the division of Cyprus. ...

The met office issued a yellow weather warning on Monday in place from 6pm until 5am on Tuesday. Storms and rain are forecast to affect the entire island with rainfall ...

A total of 1,080 Pfizer vaccine doses were delivered to the Turkish Cypriot community on Monday morning through the bicommunal technical committee on health. The vaccines are part of the total ...

Investigations into a case of burglary at three different shops in Paphos are at an advanced stage after the arrest of a 29-year-old suspect, according to Paphos police spokesman Michalis ...

The health ministry said the 3,466 appointments for vaccinations which became available on Monday were booked in less than an hour. The appointments concern the first round of Pfizer-BioNTech for people ...

The sewerage board of Limassol (Sala) will sign a contract to prevent the northern areas of the town from flooding in the next few days, it announced on Monday, two ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos will meet President Nicos Anastasiades at 10am to discuss the revised state budget for 2021, which is scheduled to be put to the vote on Thursday. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday received the second dose of a Covid vaccine, some three weeks after the first jab. After spending the mandatory 15 minutes at Latsia health centre, where ...

The Nicosia district office will remain closed on Monday due to confirmed coronavirus cases, the interior ministry announced. The ministry informed the public that the offices will be disinfected in ...

Police booked 127 individuals and three businesses from Sunday until Monday to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In total, 10,653 checks were carried out, 3,177 in Nicosia, 2,788 in Limassol, 1,104 in Larnaca, 1,051 in ...

The roads leading to Troodos are open only for vehicles with snow chains or four-wheel drives due to frost, while more snow is expected to fall during the day. Roads ...

Lost Vegas is teaming up with life-long British prisoner to raise funds for mental health charity An Ayia Napa-based band that stormed the iTunes charts in the UK last year, ...

Search and rescue crews scoured the Phinikoudes area in Larnaca on Sunday after a 70-year-old woman who went swimming at around 1 pm did not come out of the water. Authorities ...

Three deaths and 157 coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. The deaths concern two men, aged 67 and 89, and a woman, 83, all with underlying conditions. Their cause of ...