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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 ...

The first Cyprus-Egypt Intergovernmental Summit will take place on September 4 in Cairo, with the participation of the two countries’ delegations under their Presidents, Nicos Anastasiades and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The ...

The health ministry is ready to administer booster shots should the cabinet give it the go ahead, with the health minister adding that further restrictions are not currently on the ...

The ambulance service responded to 39,000 calls for emergency pre-hospital treatment from the beginning of the year to the end of July, the state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday. ...

Cyprus jointly ranked top amongst EU countries for the share of population who streamed TV or videos in 2020. Cyprus and the Netherlands both recorded a rate of 95 per cent, according ...

Traffic at Larnaca and Paphos Airports is satisfactory, with some 670,000 passengers having flown to the island to date, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos told CyBC on Thursday. By the end of ...

Some 500 civil weddings will have been carried out in Peyia Municipality by the end of the year, while some bookings have been moved to a later date because of uncertainty ...

A Nicosia café was fined €4000 because the employee responsible for checking whether customers had a SafePass was not wearing a mask, the Cyprus News Agency said on Thursday. In another ...

The Department of Meteorology has issued an extreme high temperature warning, valid from 11.30 until 17.00 on Thursday. In issuing the yellow alert, it said that the maximum temperature inland is expected ...

The general manager of the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (ΟΕΒ) Michalis Antoniou, speaking to StockWatch, said that there is a grave shortage of manpower that threatens the growth of the ...

The House education committee on Wednesday called for a show of “political will” and the president’s intervention in resolving recurring issues surrounding the appointments of assistants for special needs ...

No new deaths from Covid-19 were recorded over the past 24 hours, as 257 new infections were detected after 39,578 tests, a positivity rate of 0.65 per cent. According to the health ministry, 181 people ...

Twelve per cent of the Covid-19 vaccines received by the Republic went to Turkish Cypriots through the bicommunal committee on health, it was reported on Wednesday. According to the Cyprus ...