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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law on combatting terrorism, harmonising with a relevant EU directive over which Cyprus had earlier been warned for non-compliance. The bill passed ...

The island’s largest lender said Thursday it has no banking operations in either Russia or Ukraine, having wound down its business there years ago. In a statement released through ...

Diagnostic centres, particularly radiological facilities, effectively operate in a lawless environment, often carrying out unnecessary MRIs or using outdated and potentially hazardous machinery. What’s more, some doctors are shareholders ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced one more death attributed to Covid-19, while testing detected 3, 951 new positives. The latest fatality was a man aged 84. That brings the death toll since ...

Unvaccinated individuals run the risk of hospitalisation for Covid-19 that is four to 30 times higher than for the vaccinated, the health ministry said on Thursday. The data released runs up ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (15 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 70000166 Agios ...

Turkish Cypriots seeking up to €50 million in compensation from the Republic for use of their land have had their claim rejected by the Paphos district court. The legal services announced ...

Authorities are working on increasing occupancy on flights to mitigate the loss of visitors from Russia and Ukraine, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Thursday during a visit to Paralimni ...

In its first year of operation, Paphos police’s domestic violence unit investigated 271 cases that led to 126 arrests, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. Paphos deputy police chief Michalis ...

The drive, as you turn off from the Nicosia Limassol highway to Ktima Dafermou is not long. As you climb up, the Ktima Dafermo winery suddenly appears on your right. ...

The agriculture ministry has awarded a tender for the purchase of a quantity of 20,500 tonnes of corn from alternative sources, with reserves for animal feed estimated to be down to ...

A 38-year-old man was remanded for a further eight days on Thursday for his alleged involvement in a huge drug bust in which 132kg of cannabis was seized by police. ...

A 47-year-old Ukrainian man with Russian citizenship whom the Cypriot courts agreed to extradite to Russia has had the process postponed, due to the “force majeure” of the invasion. The ...

Excessive and unmonitored sick leave periods, police officers convicted of serious crimes given full pension and mistakes on hundreds of traffic fines that forced authorities to cancel them, form part ...

After a short hiatus and a temporary love affair with brunch places – which might come back during Cyprus’ short but amazing spring – I returned to the island’s queen of ...

A fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose has been deemed “inevitable” amongst the general population and not just for the elderly or vulnerable groups, while the current testing programme may be trimmed. ...

Government services on the web are set to be centralised into a single portal “gov.cy” within the next two months, while digital IDs and signatures are also set to ...

The Cypriot economy continues to grow, showing improvement over the performance of the previous year, but external factors are contributing to a loss of momentum, according to a report by ...

Two police officers were honoured for saving lives in separate cases at a special event on Thursday. They were both off duty at the time. “Police are on alert 24-7, ...

Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced a 42-year-old woman to 11 years in prison and a 59-year-old man to 10 after finding them guilty in a drug related case, police said. The ...

Constructing new wave breakers in pursuit of sandy beaches for tourism is a short-sighted policy that harms the environment, three NGOS warned on Thursday as they called for an in-depth ...

Τhe interior ministry said on Thursday it would not be commenting at this stage on the attorney-general’s decision to launch an investigation into allegations of migrant exploitation, with high ...

In today’s episode, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides has expressed caution over prospects for reviving EastMed pipeline as she said that, even if the pipeline project kicked off immediately, it ...

The Cyprus journalists’ union said on Thursday it is €1000 to a special relief fund for Ukrainian journalists. It described it as a “a meagre but essential sum in regard to ...