Cyprus

In a special plenary session on Tuesday, the House voted to reject President Nicos Anastasiades’ refusal to sign off on a bill that would renew a freeze on property foreclosures, ...

The need for changes to legislation to eliminate linguistic sexism in official state documents and gender-based discrimination in the workplace was among the issues highlighted on Tuesday by acting president ...

By Andrea Januta Cyprus. Cuba. Turkey. Canada. Northern Ireland. Antarctica. All recorded their hottest-ever temperatures in the last two years, and according to a new study, more such extremes are ...

Green Dot’s recycling programme should cover 90 per cent of the population by 2023 the environment service said on Tuesday as it announced that the service will be extended to Voroklini ...

The health ministry announced a total of 63 locations islandwide that will provide free coronavirus rapid testing to residents on Wednesday. The sites aim to assist the mandatory testing of employees ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides discussed Turkey’s illegal actions in Varosha with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday. Christodoulides, who was in Israel on a working visit, was received ...

The Commissioner for Personal Data Protection Irene Loizidou Nikolaidou said on Tuesday that candidates and or political parties were fined €23,500 in total after her office received 68 complaints concerning violations of ...

Police on Tuesday said they have arrested three men on suspicion of stealing electric tools from a Larnaca warehouse and attempting to escape using a stolen car. The incident was ...

Members of the hospitality venues association (Pasyka) on Tuesday reiterated their position that SafePass checks should be carried out by relevant officials, after a Limassol-based restaurant owner was assaulted with ...

Two brothers, aged 30 and 21, were sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison each after pleading guilty to killing 44-year-old Christos Michail who was found dead in his car in a ...

Cyprus star Pavlos Kontides leads the standings after the sixth race in sailing’s laser category at Tokyo 2020 on Tuesday. The Cypriot, who won the silver medal at London 2012, scored ...

Almost ten per cent of people in Cyprus drink sugar-sweetened soft drinks at least once a day, ranking the country ninth in daily soft-drink consumption among 27 EU member states, a ...

Applicants for minimum guaranteed income are sometimes subjected to delays and impersonal treatment from the government department responsible for welfare payments, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides has found. In a report published ...

A total of 25.7 per cent of teenagers aged 16 to 17 have received at least one dose of an anti-Covid vaccine while 63.5 per cent of adults have completed their vaccination, the health ...

The labour ministry on Tuesday called on employers and the self-employed to take all measures to protect staff and themselves citing the possibility of a heatwave. According to the labour ...

Paphos District Post Office will remain closed on Tuesday due to a Covid -19 incident, Cyprus Post said on Tuesday.

President Nicos Anastasiades will meet Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on Tuesday after which there will be extended talks between the delegations of Greece and Cyprus as part ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested after he was caught speeding on the Limassol to Nicosia motorway late on Monday. According to traffic police, the man was stopped for a check ...

An 83-year-old Paphos resident was arrested after allegedly assaulting and injuring a 51-year-old woman, police said on Tuesday. The incident was reported to the police when the woman visited Paphos’ ...

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and State Department both warned against travel to Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Kyrgyzstan because of a rising number of Covid-19 cases ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has warned the public that certain individuals are contacting investors while pretending that they are representing the commission. Under this false premise, these individuals ...

This winter, for the first time ever, Cyprus is going to create a Christmas Village, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios told the Cyprus Mail in an interview on Monday. “...

Police on Tuesday said they are investigating an online scam after a 43-year-old Limassol resident reported he lost €49,000 in cryptocurrency investments. The complainant said he contacted a person who was ...

Lebanon’s leading events design group is making a definitive move to Nicosia. A few weeks ago, Elias Krim finalised the process of moving his company which specialises in outdoor ...