Cyprus

The government is considering imposing stricter measures in night clubs and hospitality venues in a bid to stem the spread of Covid infections, which surged to over 1,000 per day in ...

Hospitals must postpone all non-urgent operations and limit capacity from July 17 to free up hospital beds in anticipation of a rise in coronavirus admissions, the health ministry said in a ...

A public sector union has called on civil servants to join a lawsuit against the government over its decision to terminate free rapid tests from August 1 as it tries to ...

France was always a strategic partner for the Republic of Cyprus and there is a clear political will to further strengthen and expand the already excellent relations on a bilateral, ...

Today is a day of remembrance that must never be erased, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday as he led tributes to those killed during the 1974 coup aimed at overthrowing ...

A 29-year-old man who was refusing to show a SafePass at a customer service centre of the electricity authority in Paphos, was arrested, police said on Thursday. The authorities said ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested for driving at more than double the maximum speed limit in Nicosia, police said on Thursday. Traffic police found the teenager driving at 124 kph a ...

Police on Thursday announced the arrest of another two more people after a drug squad operation in Nicosia during which they found two kilos of cocaine and made two initial ...

A 30-year-old man who admitted to assaulting his younger roommate with a knife was arrested early on Thursday in Kato Paphos. According to the police, the suspect and his 20-year-old ...

Fourteen members of the US Senate have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden condemning Turkey’s continuing efforts to open the coastline of Varosha, in contravention of several ...

“Today, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) oversees 790 entities and 9 trillion transactions by Cyprus Investment Firms, placing it among the first markets in Europe in 2020,” noted CySEC Chairwoman Demetra ...

The Paphos district administration said on Wednesday that it will be shutting down illegal beach bars set up on state land along the Polis-Yialia beach which threaten local turtle populations. ...

The health ministry announced the death of a 56-year-old woman from Covid-19 on Wednesday, as infections reached a record high of 1,120 after 62,656 tests, a positivity rate of 1.79 per cent. The ...

Air raid sirens will sound at 8.20am on Thursday to mark the start of the coup 47 years ago to overthrow president Makarios. Church services for those killed during the coup ...

Police said Wednesday they have seized two kilos of cocaine and arrested two suspects during an operation in the Nicosia district. The force tweeted that during an ongoing drug squad ...

The government is drafting a bill that would introduce a small deposit return fee to help reduce waste, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis told the House Environment Committee on Wednesday. He ...

As the heat wave continues to grip Cyprus, the met office has issued a new extreme high temperature warning for Thursday when temperatures are expected to reach 41C inland and 33...

The health ministry announced a total of 61 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The state health services (Okypy) is postponing all non-urgent operations in anticipation of a rise in hospital admissions as a result of the recent surge in coronavirus case, spokesman Charalambos ...

Two sea turtles – Androniki and Emma –were released back into the sea on Wednesday after recuperating at the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre of the Fisheries Department where they were taken ...

The environment service has launched a two-month public consultation on draft regulations to manage plastic waste in the agricultural sector. Uncontrolled dumping and burning of plastic agricultural waste pollute the ...

Church services to mark the saint’s day of Ayia Marina will be held at the chapel of the same name in the Dherynia buffer zone on Friday and Saturday, ...

Bus and taxi drivers must be vaccinated or have a 72-hour negative test to work, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said in new guidelines for the public transport sector issued on ...

Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court on Wednesday jailed a 33-year-old man from Greece for 13 years after finding him guilty of illegally importing 27 kilos of cannabis. The man was arrested at Larnaca Airport ...