Cyprus

The personal data protection commissioner on Monday fined two big Nicosia clubs and a contracting company a total of €105,000 after finding security gaps in their ticketing systems. In a written ...

The health ministry on Monday announced one death and 223 new coronavirus cases, after 74,092 PCR and rapid tests, with a positivity rate of 0.30 per cent. A 55-year-old man who died on ...

Cyprus was among 15 EU member states where the share of childcare workers and teachers’ aides was below 1 per cent of the total employed population, according to figures published by Eurostat. ...

Main opposition party Akel on Monday urged the government to quickly intervene to shield the public from rising prices in electricity as well as in essential goods, noting that thousands ...

A 62-year-old man was jailed for two years on Monday after he was found guilty of starting a fire in Limassol in August last year. The man was charged in ...

Ministers participating in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday will be briefed on the implementation of the reforms, projects and policies announced by President Nicos Anastasiades or which are included in ...

The health ministry has announced 36 rapid testing sites for Tuesday. People need to present proof of identity to get tested, such as ID, passport, or driver’s licence. District Locations ...

A 54-year-old man, partner of a 58-year-old British woman who was critically injured after being hit by a car in the Paphos district on Saturday, is under arrest as police ...

The coronavirus has caused a second pandemic: anxiety. As mental health issues worldwide escalate, ALIX NORMAN looks at the latest in anti-anxiety tools (and how to get a discount) During ...

A 29-year-old woman has died from Covid, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Monday. The woman, who had been six months pregnant when she was hospitalised, had also lost her baby ...

The successful implementation of the €1.3bn Recovery and Resilience Scheme is very important to public finances and the island’s growth prospects, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Monday, as ...

Cyprus’ Minister of Agriculture Costas Kadis held bilateral meetings with his Egyptian counterparts, Minister of Agriculture Al Sayed Al Qusair and Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad, on the sidelines of the ...

A 12-month-old boy is in critical but stable condition at Makarios hospital in Nicosia after being diagnosed with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C), according to the hospital’s chief ...

Fire fighters have contained a fire which broke out in Peyia forest in the Paphos district on Monday morning, the forestry department has announced. It said the fire, which broke ...

Over 45,000 students at state secondary school are set to return to school on Tuesday under strict measures to combat Covid-19, most notably the requirement of a SafePass for those aged 12 ...

Greece on Monday confirmed that former Cypriot European humanitarian aid and crisis management commissioner Christos Stylianides will head the new climate crisis and civil protection ministry. He will receive honourary ...

An elderly woman was pulled out of the sea unconscious on Monday morning and was pronounced dead at Limassol hospital. According to the Police, at 9.30 am, a foreign visitor who ...

A 67-year-old man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he had started a huge fire in Arakapas in July that killed four men and destroyed some 55 square kilometres ...

China and Cyprus should seize the opportunity of the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations to forge closer, strategic ties, China’s Ambassador to Cyprus Liu Yantao has told the ...

The body of a 65-year-old man was found floating in the sea off Lady’s Mile area early on Monday, Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) police said. According to the police, ...

Three countries were downgraded from the Orange to Red category following the health ministry’s latest epidemiological risk assessment published on Monday. The changes take effect on Thursday. According to ...

Another three people were arrested at Larnaca and Paphos airports on Sunday on suspicion of attempting to travel to European destinations with documents that did not belong to them. One ...

A Nicosia business was fined €8000 and a Larnaca supermarket €4000 as part of police checks for Covid measures in the past 24 hours. They were among 31 individuals and six businesses found to ...

The technical committee that is working on the preparations for a joint gas pipeline project between Cyprus and Egypt will convene on September 15, the office of the Minister of Energy, ...