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Most eateries and bars in Ayia Napa and Protaras are expected to reopen in mid-May with the arrival of the first summer tourists, their spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency ...

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 ...

MPs have given the green light to the establishment of a dedicated police unit to handle cases of animal cruelty in what they said marked a step forward for animal ...

A man being sought by police for organising a carnival party in Episkopi last weekend was located at 8am on Friday morning, police said. According to the police, the 27-year-old ...

Paphos police on Thursday arrested a man wanted for financial fraud in Russia. Interpol Moscow informed Cyprus on February 4 that the 66-year-old man was wanted by Russian authorities. He was ...

Paphos police on Thursday arrested two men in connection with the illegal possession of property. Following a tip-off, officers of the crime detection department searched the home of a 33-year-old ...

Larnaca police on Thursday arrested a motorcyclist in possession of 270 grammes of cannabis. The 20-year-old man was stopped while riding a motorbike without number plates in the Larnaca district in ...

Police booked eight businesses, four of them located in Limassol, for violating coronavirus protocols from Thursday until Friday morning. Three of the establishments are in Larnaca and one is in ...

By Dr. Charles Ellinas We urgently need a major rethink and change in direction. I have called repeatedly, and have been advocating through my articles in this newspaper, for the ...

The majority of Turkish Cypriots favour a federal settlement in Cyprus as the strongest option while Turkish settlers prefer annexation by Ankara as the best option according to a study ...

Twitter on Thursday suspended the account of the Cypriot nationalist party Elam, with a pro-migrant NGO welcoming the news. The party’s account – @elamcy2008 – was suspended on Thursday, Doros Polycarpou ...

Parliament on Thursday voted to scrap the Grains Commission, a semi-governmental entity that had been running up big deficits in recent years. Under another bill, the competences and staff of ...

In 2017 the now-defunct cooperative bank – run by the state at the time – signed a no-bid contract with asset management outfit Altamira by which the latter would manage the lender’s €7 ...

The health ministry announced 385 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday from 45,598 PCR and rapid tests yielding a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. Eighty-three of the new cases were in Limassol ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides on Thursday visited the old site of Petrolina’s fuel facilities on the Larnaca-Dhekelia road which the company has begun dismantling, with a view to clearing ...

Following the opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which clarified that, after a thorough investigation, there was no link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the thromboembolic events reported by ...

The European Commission would like to see member states and the European Parliament act quickly on its proposal for a digital green certificate covering vaccination, testing and recovery so that ...

A total of 55 testing sites will operate on Friday, with the majority in the capital, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The test sites provide free antigen tests for the ...

The interior minister has sacked Kouklia community leader Michalis Nicolaou amid recriminations with council members relating to alleged financial misconduct. Nicolaou was informed of the minister’s decision on Wednesday ...

Authorities are deeply concerned over the fact that the more infectious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain was detected in all 45 samples sent from Cyprus to the European Centre for ...

A total of 43,448 people received inpatient care through the general health scheme (Gesy) since its introduction, according to figures released by the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Thursday. Specifically, 8,800 patients ...

The EU will be present at the conference on Cyprus, convened by the UN, both in the initial phase in Geneva and in the next phase of in-depth negotiations, a ...

The police are set for significant anti-riot control equipment upgrades, of which among them are five new vehicles and thousands of batons. According to publicly available government tenders, the police ...

Bird trapping with the use of mist nets is at its lowest level in almost two decades but the use of limesticks is on the rise, boosted by a change ...