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The House selection committee on Tuesday agreed on presidents for the 16 parliamentary committees and scheduled a new meeting for Wednesday to decide on the deputy chairs and members. The committee ...

Some 2,500 drivers were booked for traffic offences over the long weekend, the majority of them for speeding, police said on Tuesday announcing the results of a campaign to avert road ...

President Nicos Anastasiades replaced the ministers of health and justice on Tuesday and appointed a junior minister for welfare at the newly created department. Anastasiades also appointed a new government ...

Some 2500 drivers were booked for traffic offences over the long weekend, the majority of them for speeding, police said on Tuesday announcing the results of a campaign to avert road ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities say they expect 3,000 Greek Cypriots to file applications with the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in the north over their properties in the fenced area of Varosha. There ...

Saying that we must learn to live with the novel coronavirus, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday voiced concern over an increase in positivity rates of rapid tests and the ...

Paphos Hotels saw occupancy rates of close to 60 per cent over the long weekend, a significant jump from the 15 per cent averaged over the month of June, Thanos Michaelides, president ...

Cyprus is set to take part in the EU’s Green Pass from July 1, a coronavirus certificate aimed at facilitating international travel. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC on Tuesday morning, ...

The weather service issued a thunderstorm warning on Tuesday valid from 12pm unti 7pm. According to the service, isolated thunderstorms were expected mainly in mountainous and inland areas, which may ...

The two sides on Tuesday reiterated to UN special envoy Jane Holl Lute their opposing positions on the way forward for the Cyprus problem as the UN official visited the ...

Famagusta, Paphos and the mountain villages were the big winners from the busy three-day weekend as Cypriots went on local holidays. In some areas capacity reached or even surpassed one ...

A 48-year-old electricity company (EAC) employee critically injured in an explosion in May has died, the EAC said on Tuesday. Kyriacos Argyrou and a colleague, 40, were injured in an explosion ...

Police said on Tuesday that have nabbed three men trying to steal catalytic converters from a Nicosia warehouse. Acting on information, police on Monday evening went to the warehouse where ...

A woman trapped in her car after a collision in Protaras on Monday evening was freed by the fire service and taken to Famagusta Hospital, the fire service said on ...

The Council of Europe (CoE) on Tuesday lauded the announcement last week by the Cyprus Supreme Court on the adoption of new rules of civil procedure. The rules were finalised ...

A 25-year-old man will appear in Larnaca district court on Tuesday after he was caught doing 180 km per hour on the Larnaca-Kophinou motorway. The speed limit on the motorway is 100 ...

In a development that is likely to disappoint the Cyprus government, the EU’s top foreign policy chief said on Monday the bloc would not be getting deep into EU-Turkey ...

The health ministry said on Monday there had been no new Covid deaths as it announced 67 new positives from 21,250 PCR and rapid tests, yielding a positivity rate of 0.32 per cent. ...

Discussions on the Cyprus issue will pick up momentum from Tuesday, beginning with a new round of contacts by UN envoy Jane Holl Lute who was due to arrived late ...

President Nicos Anastasaides is expected to unveil his new cabinet any time between now and Tuesday morning in a reshuffle tinged by the dramatic resignation of justice minister Emily Yiolitis ...

The Cyprus issue, Turkey’s stance on the Eastern Mediterranean, gas cooperation and the situation in Libya dominated Monday’s meeting between Greek PM Kyriacos Mitsotakis and Egyptian President Abdel ...

Sampling units will be located at the following area on Tuesday Province Sampling points Hours Limassol (19 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 7.30 am-7.30 pm TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, Ayia Zoni (Limassol ...

Lace-making is something that unites the countries of Europe says the woman behind an exhibition on the craft now on in Lefkara. ALIX NORMAN finds out more If you were ...

Before Covid, there were 1 billion vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the world. Covid is thought to have increased this number by 20 per cent. Tony Hollingsworth, a veteran producer, is managing ...