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President Nicos Anastasiades briefed on Thursday the European Council President Charles Michel on efforts to resume the Cyprus peace talks and asked for the EU’s contribution for confidence building ...

Two men are under arrest in connection with two separate drug cases, one in Nicosia and the second in Larnaca. In Nicosia, police arrested a 28-year-old man who was carrying ...

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. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

A 43-year-old woman was caught driving while five times over the maximum alcohol limit, Famagusta district police said on Friday. Officers stopped the car of the woman for a check ...

Seven businesses and 16 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols after 1,711 checks in the government-controlled areas, police said on Friday. Five businesses and four people were fined in Nicosia after 468 ...

The European Commission predicts a 4.1 per cent increase for the real GDP of Cyprus in 2022 and a 3.5 per cent increase in 2023, in its Winter 2022 Economic Forecast which was published on ...

Environmental NGO, Terra Cypria, has repeated its calls for the passage of a bill that will allow those who own land in Akamas to build elsewhere, saying this will protect ...

Cyprus’ foreign trade showed signs of recovery in the final two months of 2021, with exports hitting €702.7 million in value during that time, while total exports surpassed €3 billion for the entire ...

Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) President and ICS Vice-Chairman Themis Papadopoulos and CSC Director General Thomas Kazakos, represented the Cyprus shipping industry at the Board of Directors meeting of the International ...

The new sports stadium in Limassol will cost taxpayers almost triple what it was initially priced at, MPs heard on Thursday. At the House watchdog committee, Marios Petrides of the ...

Gesy’s expenditure in 2021 was €1.21 billion, with all indications that this would be covered by revenue, a senior health insurance organisation (HIO) official told the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday. ...

Police on Thursday took one more person in custody in connection with the gangland-related murder of 53-year-old Andreas Evangelou last December. The latest person to be arrested was a 25-year-old ...

Parliament on Thursday handed independent MP Andreas Themistocleous a verbal reprimand over his inappropriate behaviour last September toward an official with the Green Party. The decision on Themistocleous’ penalty – essentially ...

A total of 35 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Friday, the health ministry announced. In addition to documents exempting people from vaccination, like ...

Parliament on Thursday postponed voting on two items of legislation – the first creating an anti-corruption authority, the second regulating lobbying – but will go ahead with the vote next week. Nicos ...

Traffic violations have dropped by half ever since the cameras went ‘live’ compared to the period during which they were used on a pilot basis, MPs heard on Thursday. During ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced one more death from Covid-19, while nationwide testing detected 2,815 new positives. The latest fatality was a woman aged 78 who passed away on Wednesday. That brings ...

Twenty-three per cent of hospitalised coronavirus patients have received a booster shot, the health ministry said on Thursday. The data covers hospitalisations recorded in the past two weeks up to ...

The trial of a 74-year-old British man who in December confessed to killing his wife to spare her suffering from leukaemia will start in April. The defendant appeared on Thursday ...

Students arrive late at the set locations providing free coronavirus tests as part of the ‘test to stay’ policy, resulting in a commotion and loss of “valuable teaching time”, the ...

Cyprus, as a global maritime power, will present government’s initiative on how to tackle climate change with a focus on green shipping during the One Ocean summit in France, ...

Hot on the heels of news that a doctor was facing criminal charges for allegedly sending fictitious invoices for payment, it emerged on Thursday that another medic has been removed ...

The tax department said on Thursday that anyone who receives an SMS text message purportedly from Taxisnet, to ignore it. It said that messages with sender ‘TAXISnet’ with the words: “...

Celebrating and promoting the art of cinema, the 12th edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus returns this October to showcase a diverse programme of short films from ...