Cyprus

The vaccination portal will reopen for more age groups in the coming week, the health ministry said on Thursday. Cyprus remains third in vaccinations among EU member states with 71 doses ...

Crossings between the two sides of the island will resume on Friday after the agreement of the two communities on the measures to be followed due to the pandemic. The ...

More than half of Cypriots are satisfied with the way the government has handled the pandemic, a recent Eurobarometer survey showed. The Eurobarometer is an initiative launched in 2007 by the ...

Conservation works on the perimeter wall at the Panagia church in the village of Asha in the north have been completed, the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage (TCCH) announced on ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and US Ambassador Judith Garber, accompanied by the Mayor of Larnaca Andreas Vyras, visited on Thursday the construction site of the Cyprus Centre for Land, Open-seas, ...

Three men who were arrested following an incident at Polemidia social welfare office on Thursday morning will be taken to court after terrorising staff members and causing damages to the ...

The health ministry said on Thursday it will press ahead with a disciplinary investigation of a number of mental health professionals despite threatened strike action from state nurses’ union Pasyno. ...

A large fire near Pentalia village in Paphos was put under control the fire service said on Thursday after burning 10 hectares of wild vegetation and many trees. According to fire ...

Any change of government in Israel or in Cyprus will not affect relations between the two countries because they are based on common objectives and goals to address common challenges, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his readiness during a teleconference with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday for a meeting to discuss the confidence-building measures (CBMs) he has proposed. Anastasiades ...

June is likely to see few visitors in Cyprus, but there is cautious optimism as far as July and August are concerned, according to Philokypros Roussounides, director general of the ...

The health ministry on Thursday reminded the public of personal protection measures against the coronavirus, particularly regarding the SafePass, a day after health minister Constantinos Ioannou expressed concerns about complacency ...

The mean concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) in urban areas in Cyprus stands at 13.8 μg/m3, slightly above the EU average, according to a Eurostat report for the year 2019 published ...

Turkey’s insistence on a two-state solution in Cyprus faces the universal negative reaction of the international community, of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the ...

Cyprus ranks sixth among the 27 EU member states in administering the first dose and third for having completed vaccinations against coronavirus, according to data released by the European centre for ...

The Friends Hospice in Paphos, which had to close its doors last year, is on track to reopen at its new premises before the end of the year, according to ...

Paphos CID are investigating a case of attempted murder after a man was hospitalised with a broken leg late on Wednesday following an argument over a parking space. According to ...

Police said they booked nine people after 3,327 checks for violations of coronavirus measures in the 24 hours up to 6am on Thursday. During the checks, carried out from 6am on Wednesday ...

As checkpoints are expected to reopen on Friday, business in the south is happy, but cautious. “It’s a good thing, but we will see what happens,” said the owner ...

Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas has arrived at its home port in Limassol to prepare for the start of its seven-night cruises from Cyprus in July. The 13-deck ...

The Armenian National Committee of Cyprus on Wednesday held a protest outside the Russian embassy in Nicosia calling on Moscow to exert pressure on Azerbaijan to release Armenian war prisoners ...

One death from coronavirus and 58 new cases from 39,568 PCR and rapid tests were announced on Wednesday. The positivity rate is 0.15. The death was a woman, aged 64. There are 57 people in ...

A 67-year-old woman was charged on Wednesday after being caught showing up to take the state university entry exams with her 25-year-old daughter’s ID. Police said they had received ...

Main opposition Akel on Wednesday said that the party has launched consultations to reflect on its disappointing showing in the House election amidst reports that leader Andros Kyprianou will not ...