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In a further escalation of a bitter row over Cyprus’ golden passports, Diko and Akel on Friday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of not telling the whole truth about his holidays ...

Edek and Citizens’ Alliance MP Giorgos Lillikas have asked for a week’s postponement to the vote on the parliamentary code of ethics to give them time to propose and ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Friday urged parents to encourage their final year children retuning back to school on Monday to get tested for coronavirus. Though the testing of pupils ...

Following a fifteen-year steady increase in world demand for Halloumi, export growth declined 2020, especially in the final quarter of the year, as restaurant closures across Europe stifled consumption of the ...

Central Bank governor Constantinos Herodotou on Friday urged MPs not to tamper with the foreclosures legal framework but to focus on how courts can more quickly deal with financial disputes ...

Cyprus ranked second among EU countries in terms of coronavirus testing per 100,000 members of the population during the last two weeks of January, it was announced on Friday. According to ...

The first meeting of the Cypra slaughterhouse investigation, which will also probe related companies and individuals, will take place on February 12, it emerged on Friday. According to a statement by ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos has been accused of demolishing another listed buidling in the old town of Nicosia in 2018 without the municipality taking any measures against him since. The mansion had been ...

A child protection NGO on Friday slammed a Paphos court decision to release a man suspected of molesting two sisters pending his trial, raising the risk of them seeing him ...

Four Limassol nurseries were evacuated after receiving emails warning of a bomb on Friday in a replay of what occurred in Nicosia a day earlier. The Cyprus News Agency reported ...

The north will enter a full lockdown on Friday evening as cases continue to rise leading the authorities to question whether the health system could cope. The lockdown will start ...

As part of measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, the transport ministry has published new guidelines for public and private transport effective from Friday. It said that ...

Akel’s Nicosia municipal councillors on Friday slammed a postponement the previous evening about how to handle the demolition of houses in the centre of Nicosia by the Archbishopric. It ...

Paphos municipality said on Friday it has removed 300 20-tonne trucks of construction and other waste from various areas in the town in recent days as part of a cleaning campaign. ...

Larnaca police on Thursday evening arrested two men after burglary tools were found in their car. Traffic police officers stopped the car driven by a 40-year-old man, who was with ...

Police in Limassol were on Friday investigating the arson of a luxury vehicle belonging to the chairman of second division side Aris, who will is also a candidate for MP ...

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 – in audio form. Presented by ...

More than two kilos of cannabis were seized by police in Nicosia on Thursday and two men were arrested in connection with the case. Members of the drug squad who ...

A 62-year-old cyclist is in serious condition in Paphos hospital after he was hit by a car on Thursday afternoon. He was injured at 3.45pm when a car hit him ...

Police carried out more than 14,500 checks for violations of coronavirus protocols in 24 hours from Thursday until 6am on Friday, issuing fines to 138 individuals and two businesses. The record number of 14,596 ...

A lack of flights out of Cyprus due to the pandemic is having a huge impact on the ability of Paws dog shelter in Paphos to re-home dogs abroad, something ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday conveyed to the British government that his side will be going into the five-way summit on Cyprus with a two-state mindset, an arrangement ...

Civil aviation officials on Thursday confirmed that a flight under presidential designation to the Seychelles did take place in August 2015 but couldn’t say whether President Nicos Anastasiades himself was ...

The health ministry announced five deaths and 116 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday. The deaths concerned four men aged 81,73, 86 and 71, and one woman aged 84. All had underlying conditions. All died ...