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Students on Wednesday morning marched to the US Embassy in Nicosia to mark the November 17 Athens Polytechnic uprising of 1973 when students held protests against the junta that ruled Greece from 1967 ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced that some groups will be exempt from the new rule requiring EUDCC certificates to be digitally scanned through the CovScan app when its use ...

A new initiative aims to bridge the gap of female representation in jobs in the STEAM fields by organising trainings and other events to empower girls to pursue a career ...

Forestry department personnel on Wednesday announced they would be staging a three-hour work stoppage on Thursday over understaffing and would protest outside the finance ministry followed by a march to ...

Booster shots will be made available at the Larnaca walk-in centre on Saturday to people aged 40 and above and not 50 as initially indicated, provided six months have passed from the ...

In a minor legend of the jazz scene THEO PANAYIDES meets a music nerd, a travelling trumpet player originally from America who says his lips are his livelihood John Marshall ...

The remains of a woman initially reported to have been removed from her grave when it was found open on Tuesday have been located inside it, police said on Wednesday ...

Police on Wednesday said they have arrested a man who is suspected of being an illegal migrant after he tried to depart the island using fake travel documents. The man, ...

Three Nicosia-based businesses were fined €12,500 in total for breaches of coronavirus protocols after more than 1,000 checks in the capital in the last 24 hours, police said on Wednesday. Two of the ...

Xenia Kalogirou and Ioannis Sidiropoulos consider how Cyprus is faring amid the accelerated pace of e-commerce development across the globe Fintech is not just a term referring to revolutionary but ...

In today’s episode, a new neonatal ICU is to be created to facilitate the work of medical professionals and to allow parents to spend more time with their premature ...

Limassol traffic police reported 439 traffic violations in 12 hours as part of efforts to prevent serious road collisions. The operation started at 6am and finished at 6pm on Tuesday in collaboration ...

Paphos police on Wednesday were investigating a case of counterfeit banknotes following a complaint by a bank employee. The employee told police that he found a counterfeit €100 bill while he ...

Authorities on Wednesday warned vulnerable groups to take precautions because of high concentrations of dust in the atmosphere, the third such warning issued in as many days. The public, and ...

Pushing our linear economy toward a circular economy By Roberto Sciffo Imagine you are 28 years young, female, born inland in the UK, but you have been passionate about sailing ever ...

A 54-year-old man was arrested after several thousand packages of duty-free tobacco were found in his properties, police said early on Wednesday. The man was arrested after officers discovered 2.462 packs ...

Cyprus Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios said that the current level of tourist arrivals has been deemed satisfactory. Tourist arrivals between January and October of this year amount to 45 ...

The digitisation of banking services is ‘not an option, but an urgent need’, the Hellenic Bank CEO Oliver Gatzke said on Monday at The Economist’s annual Cyprus Summit in ...

A new neonatal ICU is to be created in addition to the full renovation of the existing one, to facilitate the work of medical professionals but also to allow parents ...

A boat with nine male migrants arrived in Cape Greco on Tuesday afternoon, with one of them arrested as an alleged people smuggler. The boat was spotted around eight nautical ...

President Nicos Anastasiades asserted on Tuesday that those attacking him over his handling of the peace process are in reality attacking the Greek Cypriots, pointing out that a recently leaked ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday that the issue of the Parthenon sculptures, which Greece wants returned from London to Athens, was one ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced 386 new Covid-19 cases were recorded. No deaths were announced. The new cases were among 59,730 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.65 per cent. ...

The leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest has apologised to the UK’s Greek Cypriot community after the council granted permission to Turkish Cypriots to hoist the breakaway ...