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The education ministry on Wednesday unveiled a national fitness assessment programme for secondary school children (Aristotelis) as part of concerted efforts with the health ministry to combat child obesity. Education ...

House President Annita Demetriou has tested positive for the coronavirus, she announced on Wednesday. On her Twitter feed, Demetriou posted: “Following a PCR test I was found positive to the ...

Lawmakers on Wednesday began discussing a bill that would have individual sports clubs – rather than the local sports governing body – issue ID fan cards. The legislative proposal, tabled by Edek ...

Τhe Paris Court of Appeal has dismissed an application for the annulment of an International Arbitral Award, finding in favour of the Republic of Cyprus concerning Fbme Bank. The case ...

Authorities on Wednesday announced four more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while nationwide testing detected 4,704 new cases with the positivity rate – representing a measure of the spread – on the rise. The ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris sounded the alarm about the increasing migratory flow to Cyprus on Wednesday during a meeting with the leader of Dipa Marios Garoyian. Following the meeting, Nouris ...

Cyprus, long popular with Russians seeking to shield their money from instability at home, said on Wednesday it was taking steps to conform with European Union sanctions on individuals considered ...

Police on Wednesday were called in to free drivers who became stranded in snowed-up mountain roads as a cold snap continues. Traffic police from the Morphou area and the Kakopetria ...

Akel has drawn up proposals to boost domestic tourism as part of efforts to replace an anticipated shortfall of some 800,000 Russian and Ukrainian holidaymakers in the wake of Russia’s ...

Akel general secretary Stefanos Stefanou urged the government to compensate potato farmers in the Famagusta district whose crops were destroyed by the ongoing bout of severe weather. He spoke during ...

Cyprus has an obligation as an EU member state to welcome Ukrainian refugees, including in the Famagusta district, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Wednesday, rebutting Paralimni mayor who said ...

Police in Paphos have made a third arrest as they investigate a spate of robberies in the district. In an announcement, police said they had arrested a 27-year-old Paphos resident ...

The highest number of first-time asylum applicants relative to the population in the EU in 2021 was recorded in Cyprus, with 14,799 first-time applicants per million residents, according to a Eurostat report ...

Cyprus supermarkets are not expected to experience stock shortages due to the war in Ukraine, executive secretary of the Supermarkets Association (Pasype) Andreas Hadjiadamou told the Cyprus News Agency on ...

The Bishop of Tamassos Isaias will head a humanitarian mission to the Ukrainian border in the upcoming days to help civilians affected by the ongoing conflict, the bishopric said on ...

The administrative court has rejected an appeal by a company seeking to continue using a specific building in Chlorakas to host asylum seekers, the legal service said on Wednesday after ...

Vowing to continue their strike, Nicosia bus company employees marched to the transport and labour ministries on Wednesday, a day after they voted by 99 votes to 84 to continue industrial action ...

In a relentlessly sunny educator THEO PANAYIDES finds a woman inspired by Obelix for whom music is a reason to live ‘Love’ says the sign on a door in the ...

A 60-year-old man from Scotland who broke his leg on a rocky beach near the village of Pissouri in the Limassol district was rescued by the fire service on Tuesday. ...

Three people are under arrest for aiding illegal entry into the Republic while two foreign nationals who were in the car with them have been taken to the Pournara reception ...

In today’s episode, nine young Somali migrants camped outside the Hope for Children shelter in old Nicosia say they will not leave until their situation is resolved. The boys ...

A man and a woman are under arrest as Nicosia police investigate 12 cases of obtaining goods under false pretenses, police said in a statement on Wednesday. They are suspected of ...

Police have fined 10 individuals in the last 24 hours after 1,314 checks regarding compliance with Covid-19 measures. A police spokesperson told CNA that two people were fined in Nicosia after 284 checks, in ...

But much of the forthcoming legislation should have been passed and implemented years ago By Charalampos Theopemptou Plastic pollution is a worrying worldwide phenomenon, but when this is combined with ...