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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 – in audio form. Presented by ...

Police fined 146 individuals and four businesses for flouting coronavirus protocols from Thursday until Friday. Of the 10,892 checks which were carried out 692 were conducted by traffic police and 87 by marine police. ...

Temperatures are set to drop sharply on Saturday, with snow expected to fall in the higher mountains but they will increase by Monday, the met office announced. On Friday, temperatures ...

Cyprus professionals have mixed feelings about the proposal from the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to establish a global minimum corporate tax. “It’s impractical and makes no sense in ...

Invest Cyprus, a government agency tasked with promoting Cyprus as an attractive destination for doing business in a wide range of industries and market segments, has launched a new initiative ...

Food, clothing and footwear became more expensive in Cyprus during the coronavirus pandemic, while fuel and electricity prices dropped, statistics released on Thursday showed. According to infographics prepared by the ...

Parliament on Thursday amended a law allowing for civil lawsuits to be filed against former officers or executives of the now-defunct cooperative bank. By a unanimous vote, following a terse ...

Only people aged 59-60 will be eligible to book a slot for a Covid vaccination on Friday, 9 April, the health ministry has said. In a press release issued late Thursday ...

A professional soldier in the north had to attend his wedding party in Turkey virtually because he was unable to travel due to pandemic restrictions, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

The government granted citizenships to 221 foreign investors without applying regulations passed by parliament in August 2020, MPs heard on Thursday. According to the auditor-general, between August 2020 and February 2021, the government granted 221 ...

To date two persons in Cyprus receiving vaccines for Covid have developed blood clots, neither fatal, an official said Thursday as the head of the scientific advisory team reiterated that ...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 622 new cases of Covid–19 on Thursday after performing 47,547 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.31 per cent. The deaths concerned a woman ...

Members of the bicommunal Cypriot Songs Association found an ingenious way to perform together again after a long hiatus due to the pandemic restrictions. The group, Σύνδεσμος Κυπριακού Τραγουδιού/Kıbrıs Havaları ...

State health service (Okypy) officials held a meeting with representatives of the state nurses’ union Pasyno on Thursday do dissuade them from staging a two-day strike beginning at 7am on ...

An open row erupted on Thursday between the ministries of education and health over contact tracing of positive coronavirus cases in schools, embarrassing the government and perplexing public opinion. The ...

Civil servants in the north went on strike on Thursday over a freeze on the cost-of-living increment for four months. Hundreds of civil servants marched to ‘parliament’ to protest over ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Thursday visited Swedish power metal band Sabaton’s merchandise warehouse in Limassol from where the band ships goods to fans all over the world. Karousos, ...

The economic slowdown as a result of the pandemic is smaller than initially anticipated raising hopes of brighter days ahead, Sek trade union confederation general secretary said on Thursday. Addressing ...

A total of 56 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Former minister Socratis Hasikos, who died on Monday at the age of 64, was a straightshooter and staunch supporter of the island’s reunification. Respected by friend and foe alike, Hasikos ...

Limassol and Paphos have been included in Mediterranean routes to be carried out this summer by Seabourn Cruise Line, the shipping deputy ministry announced on Thursday. The deputy ministry said ...

Around 4,000 AstraZeneca slots had been booked by early Thursday morning following the reopening of the vaccination portal for those aged 61 and over, amid hesitancy over the specific vaccine despite assurances ...

House prices and rents dropped around 3 per cent to 4 per cent in Cyprus between 2010 and the fourth quarter of 2020, unlike the majority of other EU member states, the European statistical ...

Six people, three staff and three residents, have tested positive for coronavirus in a care home in Polis, in the district of Paphos, reports said Thursday. The cases were detected ...