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The Lakatamia Post Office will only perform delivery of registered mail and small packets, as well as the delivery of mail into P.O. Boxes between February 1 and February 5, the ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by ...

Several mountain roads were closed on Friday due to overnight snowfall in the Troodos area, police said. Due to the accumulation of snow, the roads between Platres and Troodos, Karvouna – ...

Police reported 121 people and one establishment in the past 24 hours for violating measures put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus. A force spokesman said they carried out 9,991 ...

The Road Safety Council is considering which busy city streets will have their speed limit reduced from the current 50km/h to 30km/h. Such a policy shift would be ...

Police on Thursday night closed all major roads in the Troodos mountain range as they were deemed unsafe for travel due to heavy snowfall. The Platres-Troodos, Karvounas-Troodos, and Prodromou-Troodos roads ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday his mandate from the UN Security Council refers explicitly to a bizonal, bicommunal solution in Cyprus, but this was not an impediment to ...

Cyprus’ households waste more food than they think according to the findings of a survey presented on Thursday. According to the Life FOODprint survey, aimed at raising awareness about the ...

Lawyer Andreas Pittadjis, who was exposed in Al Jazeera’s ‘The Cyprus Papers’ documentary on Thursday called out the international news network to state its stance on human trafficking after ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday observed a one-minute silence in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and condemned the atrocities committed during World War II. House Speaker Adamos ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced four more deaths from Covid-19, taking the death toll in Cyprus to 197, as well as 158 new cases, while 153 people were being treated in hospitals. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday attributed the tanking of the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme to a few bad actors, saying that whereas the programme did suffer from flaws, the corruption revelations ...

Lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution authorising the House President to make public a much-awaited list of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) with bad loans. The resolution passed with a majority, ...

The health ministry released the testing sites for Friday. The testing programme of the employees will be carried out at the same time as the testing programme of the general ...

The audit office has flagged the leasing of an extensive expanse of state land to an entrepreneur for the purpose of building photovoltaic (PV) parks, noting that the entire process ...

The met office issued a yellow weather warning from 8pm on Thursday until 11am Friday for heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms. “Local showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected. The rain ...

Two-million-year-old seashell fossils were found in the Pedieos riverbed in Nicosia, the environment commissioner Klelia Vassiliou said on Thursday. The “surprise” discovery was part of an on-site visit with Lakatamia’...

The Larnaca criminal court sentenced a 41-year-old man to five years in prison on Thursday after found guilty of accessing and possessing child porn material. The man was arrested last ...

The rapid test point at the spiritual centre at the metropolitan church of Paralimni will remain open for two extra hours on Thursday, the health ministry announced. According to the ...

The president’s former law firm was among those probed by the Bar association in the past without finding anything improper, its chairman Christos Clerides told an inquiry into the ...

The agriculture ministry said on Thursday the creation of a green point in Avgorou was almost complete and that Sotira and Dherynia were next in line, following complaints by the ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that people aged 86 and above who have not yet reserved a slot will be able to book their Covid-19 jab on the government vaccination ...

The decision to ban access to nature trails, the forests and mountains as part of measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus is illogical and restricts human rights, the Green ...

Nearly 700 calls were made to the Cyprus internet safety portal’s 1480 hotline from October 1 to December 31, 2020, marking a 140 per cent increase from last year’s figures. Operated by the Cyprus ...