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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 ...

An inquiry has found nothing improper against the state treasurer in connection with a slaughterhouse that belongs to her husband which found itself in hot water last year on several ...

Senior officials presented the EU Digital Covid Certificate at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday, ahead of its launch on July 1. The certificate can be obtained in four steps and the ...

Cyprus has achieved the goal of vaccinating 65 per cent of the population by the end of June, while a total of 1,070 teenagers aged 16 to 17 have booked Pfizer appointments, the health ...

Psychiatric patients have been left behind by the national health scheme (Gesy), state doctors union (Pasyki) said on Wednesday as they went ahead with a three-hour work stoppage at the ...

A 28-year-old Nicosia resident who arrested on suspicion of car theft in the Famagusta area was remanded on Wednesday until July 6. Police said the man, who was arrested on Tuesday ...

A yellow weather warning for high temperatures remains in force on Wednesday, the met service said. Initially issued at 6pm on Tuesday, the yellow alert will continue to be in ...

Arian Adeli started his first company when he was sixteen. The company has been successful, and so Arian has written a book to go with it. Since then, he and ...

From this Saturday July 3, EU member states are supposed to ban some single-use plastics (SUPs) items and replace them with sustainable alternatives. But not in Cyprus. We still have not ...

It’s about using technology to maintain a viable, rural way of life By Charalampos Theopemptou In Cyprus helping rural areas usually means development rights, high speed roads and cobble ...