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Cypriot Paralympic swimmer Karolina Pelendritou set a new world record on Friday in Tokyo with a time of 29.92 seconds in the women’s 50m freestyle S11, a first ever sub-30 ...

Two businesses, a betting shop and a hotel, were together fined €500 each during 3,748 checks for coronavirus measures violations, police said on Friday. The Nicosia-based hotel was booked €500 because a customer ...

The Cyprus Post on Friday warned that fake messages asking for payment of custom duties are being sent to the public by email. “Cyprus Post has no involvement and urge ...

A 31-year-old man is in police custody on suspicion of assisting irregular migrants from Lebanon travel by boat to Cape Greco last week. The man was arrested in Paphos on ...

Cyprus has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks at Kabul Airport. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist attacks at #KabulAiport, that caused numerous casualties ...

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 ...

A 75-year-old man was arrested after police found more than two kilos of cannabis in his possession on arrival at Larnaca airport in the early hours of Friday morning. The ...

A firefighter was slightly injured while battling flames at a factory in Yeri overnight where efforts to extinguish the blaze are continuing on Friday, with the civil defence advising locals ...

The new revised Master Plan for the unified development of the Port and Marina of Larnaca was presented on Wednesday, in a project that will create more than 4,000 jobs. The ...

A recent EU report on Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises commends Cyprus support for SMEs during the pandemic, but sees some measures as lacking. The recently released Annual Report on European ...

Costlier fuel internationally after the historic lows of 2020 is pushing up electricity prices, with consumers facing a 38 per cent increase in their August bills compared to the same month last ...

Cyprus will remain for another three weeks on the UK’s amber list for the coronavirus, under the latest travel review decided by the British government on Thursday. The changes ...

The back-and-forth between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spilled over into the domestic political arena on Thursday, with the administration and the main opposition party trading ...

Closer ties between Cyprus and Japan, reflected in the opening by the two countries of embassies in each other’s capitals, played a catalytic part in the first ever repatriation ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced five deaths attributed to Covid-19, as the number of patients continued declining while testing yielded 254 new positives. The five decedents were four men – aged 71, 65, 47 and 84 – ...

Authorities stayed on standby on Thursday evening to contain a fire that broke out earlier in the day at the site of a factory in the industrial area of Yeri, ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) on Thursday named Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) chair George Danos as one of 11 new honorary members selected for their contributions to astronomical research in ...

Temperatures will hit 40C inland again on Friday, the met office said on Thursday as it issued a yet another extreme high temperature warning. The latest yellow alert will be ...

A decision to charge everyone for PCR and rapid tests in the north has prompted protests, the Turkish Cypriot media reported on Thursday, saying authorities are under fire for backtracking ...

Six Cypriot SMEs were selected to participate in another five projects of the European Commission’s European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) for 2020, in what the defence ministry hailed as ...

A 21-year-old Ukrainian national was airlifted to Paphos General Hospital on Thursday after suffering an electric shock aboard the merchant ship Astrid L nine nautical miles north of Cape Arnaoutis, ...

A total of 37 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Friday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has detailed that action taken concerning a copycat website hosted in India. The case was first reported on August 12, when it emerged that ...

Students and research staff on Thursday welcomed the decision of the University of Cyprus to allow class attendance with a SafePass, but a former rector slammed it as unacceptable and ...