Cyprus

A Limassol nightclub was fined €8,000 for operating without a license and violating coronavirus protocols, police said early on Sunday. The club was booked after employees were found working without a ...

As the Turkish lira continues its freefall, Turkish Cypriots react with a combination of helplessness and resourcefulness At a trendy cafe-bar across the Green Line in northern Nicosia, the lira’...

The government will not compromise on a two-state solution despite Turkey’s stance on the Cyprus problem, government officials said on Sunday during memorial services held for those who died ...

Police on Sunday said they were investigating a forgery case after a 24-year-old man attempted to depart the island using a fake passport. The man, who is from Afghanistan, arrived ...

AEL’s Corey Manigault, 23, was taken off a ventilator at the ICU of the Nicosia general hospital where he is treated after he was beaten during a brawl outside a ...

Critics say proposed law bypasses House oversight and would entrench sweeping powers of health minister The new legislation dealing with pandemic-like situations raises a slew of red flags according to ...

An 18-year-old teenager was arrested following a traffic accident that killed 23-year-old Charalambos Chalaralambous in Paphos, police said early on Sunday. The suspect is treated for his injuries at Paphos ...

One person died from Covid-19 and 535 new infections were detected after 65,358, tests, a positivity rate of 0.82 per cent, the health ministry said on Saturday. The death concerns a 76-year-old man ...

Around 300 people demonstrated in Nicosia against government plans for the Akamas peninsula, which they say fall well short of protecting the environmentally sensitive area. The protesters marched from Eleftheria Square ...

Parents protesting the government’s new Covid-19 measures involving primary school pupils blocked the Rizoelia roundabout in Larnaca for around 90 minutes, police said on Saturday. The parents were protesting the ...

Testing units open for eligible groups on Sunday, November 28 under the state’s mass screening programme. District Location of testing units Operating hours Lemesos (8 units) University Square (behind TEPAK Rectorate) 9 ...

Health authorities have gone on high alert following the emergence of a new Coronavirus variant of concern, dubbed Omicron, that was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) from ...

Ahead of his visit to Cyprus and Greece, Pope Francis said on Saturday his thoughts were with those fleeing wars and poverty who died in the sea or who were ...

Police reported 24 individuals, including three managers of businesses, for violating measures against the spread of the coronavirus. A police spokesman said the force had carried out 2,822 checks across the Republic ...

Police said Saturday a 23-year-old man from Argaka was killed and a second man, 21, was critically injured in an early morning car crash on the Prodromi to Latsi road in ...

The census has so far recorded 221,155 inhabitants and 118,967 residences, according to preliminary results, but its completion is expected to be delayed due to lack of staff, the statistical service said. ...

When is a shoebox a gift? Why, when it’s packed with toys and trinkets for kids, of course! Over the years, we’ve seen several seasonal Christmas Shoebox Schemes ...

The technology sector can become the Cypriot economy’s main source of growth while offering quality professional career opportunities to young Cypriots, a study by the IMR-University of Nicosia research ...

The Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry Natasa Pilides will assume the presidency of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum on January 1, 2022, taking over from Tarek El Molla, the Minister of ...

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) announced on Friday that it has managed to achieve significant savings in the total amount of property rents it pays to house its schools ...

Children with asthma showed short-term improvement of their symptoms during the lockdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus in spring last year, a joint study of the universities ...

Conditions are not yet safe for returns of Syrians to their country, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides told MPs on Friday while far-right Elam accused some parties of being part of ...

One death and 451 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Friday, the health ministry said. The death concerns a 47-year-old man. This brings the number of deaths from Covid-19 to 591: 378 men ...

The Bank of Cyprus and Wise have each blamed the other for why payments via the widely used popular financial tech company, which offers cheap international money transfers, have blocked ...