Cyprus

There were no deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday, as 895 new infections were detected after 76,273 tests, a positivity rate of 1.17 per cent. The ...

The UN Security Council on Friday condemned plans announced by Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots to reopen part of the fenced-off town of Varosha and called for the immediate reversal ...

Police on Friday released a doctor arrested in connection with a large protest outside the presidential palace against Covid vaccinations and the government’s SafePass measures last Sunday that was ...

The Limassol criminal court jailed a 27-year-old man for six years on Friday, after he was found guilty of attempted murder. The defendant was arrested after a man, 20, was shot ...

Police on Friday published the photos and names of four people wanted in connection with an assault against a television station last Sunday following a large protest against vaccines and ...

Cyprus and Lebanon signed an MoU agreement for cooperation in the oil and gas sector on Friday during a visit by the neighbouring country’s Defence Minister and Deputy Prime ...

Amid reports businesses are struggling to find staff, the labour ministry said on Friday that third-country students who were in Cyprus on May 31 will be allowed to work in nine ...

A 21-year-old man was remanded in custody for five days in Limassol on Friday on suspicion of injuring his neighbour, 74, with a knife. Police said the incident happened at 6am. ...

The health ministry announced a total of 74 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Ayia Napa mayor Christos Zannetos have taken an advance dive into the coastal town’s underwater sculpture museum, ahead of its official opening later this month. In total 93 works by ...

A walk-in vaccination centre will operate at the former residence of the Paphos district officer from 8.30 am to 3.00 pm on Saturday to facilitate members of the public wishing to receive ...

Cabinet has approved a new holiday scheme for low-income pensioners for the period of September 1 to December 22 covering accommodation and full board at premises in the mountain resorts and in ...

Ten semi-government organisations, including Cyta and the Electricity Authority, have new board members after cabinet approved their appointment on Thursday. The names, and the new board members of five other ...

Israeli politicians members of the country’s coronavirus cabinet, a high-level ministerial forum tasked with leading the government’s pandemic response, has voted during a parliamentary session to add Cyprus, ...

EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner European Commission’s Stella Kyriakides will pay a visit to Cyprus on Monday as part of ongoing efforts to support national vaccination campaigns to ...

Eleven residents of a Larnaca care home who tested positive for coronavirus are contacts of a member of the staff there, the health ministry said on Friday. The clarification follows ...

Employees can now file their income tax returns for 2020 through the TaxisNet portal on https://taxisnet.mof.gov.cy, the tax service announced on Friday. The deadline for filing the ...

Cyprus has set a national goal for electric vehicles to account for 25 per cent of new registrations by 2030 as it steps up efforts to reduce emissions. There are currently 201 registered ...

The Embassy of Japan on the island has issued a statement regarding the recently-reported deeply offensive remarks by an individual associated with the Tokyo 2020 Games about the Holocaust. Statement by ...

The majority of elderly patients with coronavirus who are currently hospitalised at Larnaca general hospital are unvaccinated, the facility’s director Dr Adamos Hadjipanayis told the Cyprus News Agency on ...

Cyprus has a lower share of overweight people than the EU average which suggests more than half adult Europeans were considered overweight in 2019, a recent report by Eurostat showed. A ...

Police on Friday said they are looking for two persons suspected of stealing more than €3,000 worth of furniture from a Paphos-based maisonette they had rented. The theft was reported to ...

Eurobank on Friday announced the acquisition of a 9.9 per cent holding (40,800,000 shares) in Hellenic Bank, according to a statement released on Friday. It also announced entering into a share purchase ...

Members of the Directorate-General of the Migration and Home Affairs Unit of the European Commission visited the shelter for unaccompanied children of “Hope For Children” CRC Policy Center in Nicosia, ...