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Cyprus on Friday signed a natural gas exploration and production sharing contract for an offshore field in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy. The two will ...

Cyprus’ cumulative 14-day diagnosis rate (per 100,000) as of December 6 stands at 752.8 while over a million rapid tests were carried out during that period, the health ministry said on Friday Notably, ...

The Paphos police domestic violence branch has investigated 216 cases since its establishment in February this year, bringing charges against 223 people. According to assistant director Michalis Ioannou, the unit had received ...

A United Nations reception at the Ledra Palace on Tuesday that will be attended by the leaders of the two communities is an informal social event without an agenda, UNSG ...

A red spectre has washed over the EU as the bloc of 27 nations and its regions remains overwhelmingly in the ECDC’s dark red status, including Cyprus. The data compiled ...

Forestry department employees protest understaffing Forestry Department employees are staging a three-hour work stoppage on Friday to protest understaffing. The employees gathered outside the finance ministry on Friday morning, before ...

A man and a woman are under arrest on suspicion of attempting to fly out of Cyprus from Paphos Airport used forged travel documents. The woman, aged 19 from the Congo, ...

In today’s episode, the government plans to go ahead with taxation reform, including raising the corporation rate and introducing carbon tax and fossil fuels taxes to achieve the country’...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Burglars broke into a hairdressing salon in Paphos and made off with €6000 in cash and €4000-worth of products, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. It said that the owner ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is holding his first meeting on Friday with Colin Stewart, who this week assumed his duties as the UNSG’s Special Representative and head of the UN ...

Police reported 15 individuals and five shop owners for violating the measures aiming to contain the spread of Covid-19. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours ending on 06:00 ...

Banks need to rethink their business model to be able to better compete with financial technology (fintech) companies, Central Bank of Cyprus governor Constantinos Herodotou said at the Banking Forum ...

Eleftheria Square is an extremely important project by one of the best architects of the 21st century Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Thursday expressing pride that the local authority ...

The total sales of motor vehicles decreased by 9.4 per cent year-on-year between January and November of 2021, according to a report by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). Meanwhile, total registrations in ...

Venus Minerals has announced that it has revised its mineral resource estimate at Kokkinoyia by 240 per cent The Kokkinoyia sector is part of the Magellan Project, 100 per cent owned by ...

A 30-year-old man was on Thursday arrested on suspicion of assaulting a bus driver and causing damage to the vehicle after he was asked to wear a face mask. According ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has slapped a €790,000 fine on Bank of Cyprus for the latter’s violation of certain provisions of the law relating to money laundering. In ...

Two inmates at the central prisons in Nicosia held their nuptials on Thursday – and a Netflix crew happened to be on hand to document the unusual wedding. And no, this ...

Auditor general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday accused the health insurance organisation (HIO) of violating the law and philosophy of Gesy, charges quickly denied by the HIO which insisted that it ...

A Greek Cypriot man was arrested in the north on Thursday after he unfurled a Greek flag over a monument just outside Varosha, the fenced-off part of Famagusta. Reports said ...

European Union countries are expected to agree to limit to nine months the duration of COVID-19 certificates for travel around the bloc, three EU sources told Reuters, but some states ...

Authorities on Thursday announced two more fatalities from Covid-19, while testing detected 635 new positives to the coronavirus. The two deaths were both women – one aged 84, who passed away on Thursday ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is in Madrid for meetings with the country’s monarch and the prime minister where the relations between the wo countries were at the forefront of discussions. ...