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Authorities have drafted guidelines for police officers seeking arrest and search warrants in court in a bid to avoid them being thrown out in court because of gaps and technicalities, ...

The Antiquities Department has started digitisation of ancient movable antiquities stored in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and on display in other state museums, it said on Tuesday. The project, ...

The condition of the two Electricity Authority (EAC) employees who were seriously injured on May 20 by a blast and fire at a sub-station of the utility in Latsia remains serious, ...

Lidl Cyprus discount supermarkets have donated €45,000 to the Cyprus Red Cross this year in support of families in need and children with disabilities. The German company collected €40,000 by donating €0.30 for ...

A group of pupils from Cyprus won fifth place in this year’s European Statistics Competition (ESC), it was announced on Tuesday. English School pupils Ara Mahdessian, Danae Eliade and ...

Famagusta reference hospital is returning to normal operations as the number of coronavirus patients treated at the facility has dropped to 15, scientific director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Tuesday. Hadjiyianni told ...

The national health scheme (Gesy) may have deficiencies but offers multiple benefits, the federation of Cyprus patients’ associations (Osak) said on Tuesday on the occasion of the scheme’s two-year ...

Far right party Elam said on Tuesday its leader would be running for president of parliament when the legislature reconvenes for the first time next week following the elections. Sunday’...

Archbishop Chrysostomos resumed his duties on Tuesday after receiving cancer treatment in North Carolina, USA, the Archbishopric said in a written announcement. According to his doctors, the archbishop’s health ...

Covid-19 restrictions have affected children’s rights and mental health, the Children’s Rights Commissioner Despo Michaelidou said on Tuesday. In a written statement on the international day for protection ...

Further easing of Covid-19 restrictions are in place as from today due to the improved epidemiological picture in Cyprus. For example, the number of people in home gatherings increases to ...

Police fined six people from three different districts for failing to abide by the coronavirus protocols. Two fines resulted after 546 checks in the capital, one in Paphos after 613 checks, and ...

Andrew Rosenbaum is the Business Editor of the Cyprus Mail and Editor of Cyprus 4.0. The literature on human motivation is rife with platitudinous academic works – research invariably rhyming with solipsism – ...

The new administration in the north has so far granted around 2,500 ‘citizenships’, reports said on Monday, while a probe was launched after reports of bribery. During a session in ‘parliament’, ...

No deaths from Covid-19 were announced on Monday, as 50 new infections were detected after 47,063 tests, a positivity rate of 0.11 per cent. The health ministry said 70 people were being treated in ...

The changing political landscape, plus the hammering taken by mainstream parties, stand out as the two big takeaways from Sunday’s elections, according to analysts. Back in 2016, the four ‘big’ ...

The rise of far-right, “anti-Turkish” Elam in the parliamentary election justifies the Turkish side’s position for a two-state solution, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said Monday. Tatar, but also ‘...

Sunday’s elections were a mixed bag, with many established politicians retaining their parliamentary seat, a few ‘veterans’ making a comeback, new faces including the youngest ever person to become ...

Changes are expected in local government councils after the election of some councillors as MPs on Sunday. Three vacant seats will have to be filled at the Larnaca municipal council ...

Cyprus has closed its airspace to flights from Belarus, joining a list of European Union nations imposing restrictions following the forced landing of a passenger jet in Minsk on May 23. ...

A total of 64 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Sunday’s parliamentary elections saw four parties pick up seats with many other political hopefuls left to pick up the pieces, in a vote which was dogged by low turnout ...

The MPs and representatives of the religious groups elected to parliament on Sunday were officially announced on Monday by chief returning officer Dr Costas Constantinou. The ceremony took place at ...

“In 2019, we participated in the science-based targets, which is an initiative of the Paris Climate Agreement. And we have committed to reducing absolute scope Scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 21 per ...