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The island is at a “critical juncture” regarding the pandemic, state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday, while anticipating that hospitalisations will increase further following a surge in cases ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris is expected to discuss immigration issues with his Serbian counterpart during his two-day trip to Serbia that gets underway later on Thursday. Nouris, who travels to ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested after attempting to leave the island by presenting the ID of a different person at Paphos airport, police said on Thursday. According to a police ...

Paphos police arrested two men aged 33 and 27 on suspicion of breaking into and stealing €17,000 worth of clothing and other items from an Emba home. The burglary was reported to the ...

A truck driver has died after a traffic accident on the Ayia Napa to Larnaca motorway, police said on Thursday. Stavros Panteli, 65, was driving a large truck at around 9.30pm ...

Cyprus ranked third highest among EU member states in terms of percentage of people aged 16 to 74 with an active social media account in 2020. Around 78 per cent of people interviewed in ...

The health ministry said Wednesday inspections had uncovered a batch of a frozen pork product on the market containing salmonella. Batch 0621 of the product, Pork Roll with Mincemeat sold at ...

Part of Famagusta Avenue in Larnaca was renamed Demetris Christofias Avenue on Wednesday in honour of the former president who died two years ago. Akel leader Andros Kyprianou said at ...

Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy, arrived in Limassol port on Wednesday. The HMS Queen Elizabeth, that departed from Portsmouth on May 22, ...

The health ministry announced 429 new positive cases of coronavirus on Wednesday out of 36,239 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.18 per cent. No deaths were announced. There are 54 people ...

The met office has issued a new, weather warning over high temperatures. A yellow warning was issued for 8.30pm Wednesday until 5pm Thursday for high temperatures. It is expected that ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday said the state would do its best to help provide answers to the questions tormenting the family of a 26-year-old soldier who was believed to ...

Migrant support NGO Kisa has censured a court decision that upheld its deregistration by the interior ministry, saying it had failed to examine or justify key aspects of violations of ...

Greece and Cyprus are strengthening their cooperation over tourism, with particular emphasis on the promotion of cruises, tourism officials said on Wednesday. The two countries’ deputy ministers of tourism, Greece’...

Cyprus processed a record number of asylum applications in the first three months of 2021 with the European Asylum Support Office’s (EASO) help, head Nina Gregori said during a visit ...

An expert witness testified on Wednesday that former Kition bishop Chrysostomos is suffering from frontotemporal dementia and cannot follow court proceedings in two separate cases of rape and indecent assault ...

Turkey’s possible call on refugees to return to their Varosha properties under Turkish Cypriot administration would be deceitful, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday, speaking after the Famagusta municipality ...

Giving conscripts who get vaccinated extra leave is among the proposed incentives to boost the vaccination coverage of the population, sources said on Wednesday. The ministerial committee on Covid-19 that ...

The fire service and the forestry department on Wednesday responded to several calls for large and small blazes in all districts with authorities warning that the risk of fires is ...

A crucial piece of infrastructure was unveiled in Limassol today as three large rain gutters totalling up to more than 4 kilometres in length will be created to prevent flooding in ...

The health ministry announced a total of 63 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

A 26-year-old and 30-year-old were remanded for four days on Wednesday by Larnaca court in connection with a shooting. The two men were arrested on Tuesday morning by Larnaca CID ...

A 23-year-old Larnaca man was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the killing of his 21-year-old sister with his army-issue G3 rifle in May last year in the ...

Doctors at Makarios children’s hospital have warned against complacency saying Covid admissions among younger age groups have risen with the potential of causing life-threatening complications. The head of the ...