Cyprus

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Sunday, 46 in total. People need to present a form of identification to get tested such as ID, passport or driver’s ...

Police on Saturday warned they will intervene if protests turn into mobs that disturb the peace and called on organisers of such events to comply with the measures. Citing upcoming ...

Police said a club in the Famagusta district was ordered to close on Friday night after it let in around 1,000 people, many of whom dancing. This is the fifth time ...

A 53-year-old doctor was remanded for seven days by Larnaca district court on Saturday in connection with the issuing of a fake Covid vaccination certificate to a man who is ...

Inspired by Greek mythology, one mural painter describes his works as contemporary Byzantine painting, balancing realism and abstraction. Alix Norman meets him Fikos is halfway up a wall in Athens. “...

A 48-year-old man from Limassol was arrested on Friday in connection with online threats against paediatricians for supporting vaccinating children over 12. Police said testimony was secured against the 48-year-old as ...

ASBIS, an information and communications technology distribution company based in Limassol, has announced that it has made a property acquisition to the tune of €6.2 million. The recently acquired 5,735 square metre ...

Four per cent of the adult population in Cyprus consumes alcohol daily – half the EU27 average — while 29 per cent never consumed or had not consumed any in the last 12 months, ...

Sex education is critical to protecting children from sexual abuse and must be offered at all levels of the education system, the Hope for Children Policy Centre said on Friday. ...

The education ministry is more than willing to invest in more summer school programmes, Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday while visiting two Nicosia schools participating in the programme. Prodromou ...

Four people, three men and one woman, died from Covid-19 and 525 people tested positive for coronavirus after 59,287 tests, a positivity rate of 0.89 per cent, the health ministry said on Friday. ...

Opposition parties on Friday called on the government to act against Turkish plans on a two-state solution in Cyprus amid news that the further opening of the fenced area of ...

Famagusta district court on Friday sentenced a 48-year-old man to 20 days in jail after finding him guilty of driving seven times over the legal limit. It also suspended his driving ...

Police on Friday arrested a 53-year-old man, believed to be a doctor, who is suspected of issuing fake vaccination certificates to three people now seriously or critically ill with Covid-19. ...

Cypriot firefighters helping battle fires in Greece are currently operating in the Afidnes community of Attica, spokesman Andreas Kettis said late on Friday afternoon. In a message on Twitter, Kettis ...

Booster shots for the anti-coronavirus vaccine are highly likely as Cyprus is considering following in the footsteps of other EU countries, with members of the advisory committee on coronavirus saying ...

A total of 48 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Saturday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Since Sunday, free rapid testing for the ...

After a week of sweltering heat that has seen the thermometer hit 44C and prompted a flurry of extreme hot weather warnings from the met office, temperatures will drop below 40...

A 25-year-old man admitted of setting fire to his 52-year-old mother’s apartment after getting into an argument with her, police said. Residents of the apartment building in Limassol were ...

The Cyprus Medical Association (CMA) on Friday denied delays in investigating complaints that some doctors were encouraging their patients not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, insisting that it was ...

The Astronomical Society (Astrek) is inviting people to an event on Wednesday evening in Kyperounda for the observation of the Perseids meteor shower and a lecture on the annual phenomenon. ...

Animal police are investigating the killing of a cat in Ergates on Thursday, police said on Twitter on Friday following complaints from the Green Party that law enforcement was dragging ...

Famagusta District Court issued a three-day remand order against two suspects aged 48 and 39, in a case involving grievous bodily harm to a man and a woman, aged 39 and 36, in Ayia ...

By Gina Agapiou and Evie Andreou The first day of walk-in Covid vaccinations for non-Gesy users met with enthusiastic take-up on Friday as hundreds, mostly third country nationals, braved the ...