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A Covid-19 positive woman gave birth at Makarios Hospital on Sunday, the first natural birth in a specially designed room for coronavirus cases, State Health Services Organisation (Gesy) spokesman Charalambos ...

19-year-old teenager died as the result of a road accident in Nicosia late on Sunday evening. Around 11pm a motorcycle on which two 19-year-olds were travelling on Iosif Hadjijosif avenue ...

Police on Sunday arrested two people aged 32 and 36 suspected of stealing a television and other items in Nicosia. They were searched following a tip off informing police they were likely ...

In the context of their strategic collaboration in the hospitality sector, Invel Real Estate, PRODEA Investments and the Cypriot-based YODA Group of Ioannis Papalekas announce the acquisition of 45 per cent ...

Paphos police arrested eight people whom they caught gambling on Sunday afternoon. When officers searched a house under a warrant they found and seized 112 playing cards and 59 poker chips. All ...

Police booked 12 business owners in 24 hours from Sunday until Monday morning for breaching coronavirus protocols. Two of the three booked in Limassol were restaurant owners. One who served customers indoors ...

From the numbers of expats waiting years for citizenships to the environmental impact of development projects, the Cyprus Mail put the new freedom of information act to the test. It ...

No new deaths and 470 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Sunday. A total of 55,096 tests were carried out, meaning the positivity rate was 0.85 per cent. The new cases bring ...

Responding to criticism levelled against the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic over the last few days, the ministry of health on Sunday said that the island was the ...

Waste in Aglandjia has been reduced by 41 per cent with scheme The nationwide pay-as-you-throw scheme is due to be announced later this month but is already running in Aglandjia municipality, ...

Around 1,000 people took part in a demonstration on Sunday against the move of an asphalt plant to the Mitsero area, saying they wan clean air and an environment without pollution ...

UN envoy Jane Hall Lute met President Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential palace on Sunday morning as the informal meeting in Geneva draws closer. During the meeting, held as part ...

Cyprus’ public debt reached €26 billion, or 124 per cent of GDP at the end of February, pushed by increased government borrowing to support the economy amid the crisis caused by the ...

A slew of pro-solution groups are growing increasingly vocal as talks loom The slew of pro-solution groups cropping up over the past couple of years, and especially in the last ...

Judicial reform must not become part of the current electioneering, president of the Cyprus Bar Association Christos Clerides said on Sunday. He said the house of parliament can and must ...

Around 1,180 coronavirus vaccination slots were booked by people belonging to specific vulnerable groups were booked by 9am on Sunday morning, an hour after portal was opened for them. A total ...

The government’s programme of free rapid tests will continue on Monday with 56 testing locations, the ministry of health said on Sunday. People must have a form of ID with ...

The government is purposefully ignoring the real picture of how the island is faring in the coronavirus pandemic, opposition party Diko said on Sunday. Accusing the “DISY government” of concealing ...

Along with hunting dogs, poodle-type dogs used to make up the majority of strays. So why have they become so rare? You may not have heard of the Cyprus poodle, ...

There is no ‘British plan’ on the table, Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas Wendy Morton said on Sunday, clarifying that the UK’s only interest in the Geneva ...

Speaking at the funeral of former Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos on Sunday, President Nicos Anastasiades said he had lost a dear friend and special partner. “My dear Socrates,” he said, “...

Two people, including a teenager, have been arrested in connection with a case of causing serious bodily harm to someone in Paphos on March 28. According to police, the two suspects, ...

A five-year-old Syrian migrant boy stranded in the north by himself for 45 days was this week reunited with his parents. The boy’s 27-year-old father has lived in Cyprus for ...

A total of 68 cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the north on Saturday, out of a total of 7,698 tests. According to ‘health minister’ Unal Ustel, two cases were people who ...