Cyprus

The ban on the entry of unvaccinated people to restaurants, cafés, bars and nightclubs will be lifted as of next week while dancing will also be allowed, cabinet decided ...

Paphos police on Tuesday said they have arrested a 26-year-old man after he tried to depart the island using someone else’s travel documents. The man arrived at Paphos international ...

UN peacekeepers and Cyprus police have mounted a search for the twin of the three-year-old girl found wandering alone in the buffer zone near Athienou in the early hours on ...

A 21-year-old medical student pleaded guilty to two charges in the alleged terrorism plot in which Israelis were to be assassinated in Cyprus, in a move suggesting he will be ...

Police are seeking information that could help locate 16-year-old Abdirahman Abdihamid Mohamed from Somalia, who has been missing from his residence in Nicosia since December 28, 2021. The 16-year-old is described as ...

A team of students will attempt to break the world record by sending a micro-satellite into space to capture images and videos from an altitude of 147,648 feet. This will take ...

Two cars in the parking lot of an apartment block in Limassol were set ablaze in the early hours of Tuesday, police saying it was arson. According to the police, ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus’ legal system was tested and failed in its handling of the 2019 Ayia Napa gang rape case, the chairwoman of the House human rights committee said ...

Paphos police stopped a 24-year-old motorcyclist in Chlorakas on Monday night. The man appeared to be under the influence of drugs and was riding without a helmet, licence plate or ...

Relatives of female army sergeants announced on Monday they are planning a demonstration to protest gender-based discrimination in the National Guard, a claim backed up by a recent report by ...

Cyprus medical association (CMA) on Monday slammed the health insurance service organisation (HIO) for “shoddy planning”, reiterating they had warned about the inadequacy of the Gesy budget prior to its ...

Opposition parties on Monday stayed unsatisfied with tweaks to a government bill regulating the access to borrowers’ data by companies buying loan portfolios and debt administrators. Although the bill will ...

Cyprus’ legal system was tested and failed in its handling of the 2019 Ayia Napa gang rape case concerning a British woman, the chairwoman of the House human rights committee said ...

Three deaths from coronavirus and 2,930 new cases were reported on Monday out of 134,415 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.18 per cent. The deaths concerned an 85-year-old woman who ...

The government and the opposition traded barbs on Monday over whose fault it is that Cyprus has come under the European Commission’s scrutiny over its VAT policy on primary ...

Cyprus’ National Guard and the French armed forces successfully completed the air defence exercise “Talos 2022” on Monday. The exercise was part of the bilateral defence cooperation programme, between Cyprus and ...

The fire department in 2021 responded to a total of 12,333 calls for assistance, 7,383 of which concerned fires, 2,909 taking place in urban areas and 4,474 in the countryside. According to the annual report ...

Turkey will not extradite three suspects arrested in Istanbul in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali, it emerged on Monday. A total of twelve people, six ...

The health ministry on Monday said they will investigate the sudden death of a 33-year-old mother of two and whether she died from the anti-coronavirus vaccine she had recently received, ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides announced a modification in foreign policy in a newspaper interview on Sunday, saying the government would focus on promoting the president’s confidence building proposals rather ...

For this year the state-run power corporation estimates it will spend €183 million on purchasing greenhouse gas emissions allowances, while the cost of fuel purchases is projected at €485 million. The numbers ...

Following around four years of discussions, a bill creating an anti-corruption authority will finally go to the plenum this week, with an MP saying the outfit will establish Cyprus’ bona ...

Demetris Demetriou was sworn in as the new deputy police chief in a ceremony held at the presidential palace on Monday. Speaking during the ceremony, President Nicos Anastasiades thanked departing ...

Testing sites for eligible groups for Tuesday District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Lemesos (6 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano Polemidia ...