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The University of Cyprus announced on Thursday a series of events to commemorate 200 years since the 1821 Greek War of Independence. The programme is scheduled to begin on March 3, with the ...

Police are looking for a 30-year-old Paphos resident who has been linked to a spate of burglaries in Peyia and further attempted robberies in the Sea Caves area. One of ...

Two thousand Astra Zeneca vaccines were delivered Thursday to the Turkish Cypriot community, part of the EU jabs reserved for Cyprus. The vaccines were delivered at 9am through the bicommunal ...

The two people arrested on Wednesday as part of an investigation into Tuesday’s hand-grenade attack at a residential home in Paphos have been released. Further investigations are ongoing, with ...

A new portal, Ourbeloved.cy was developed by a team of experts in state-of-the-art applications to help bereaved families and their relatives share funeral announcements and memorials in accordance with ...

The postal services announced on Thursday deliveries to European countries are back up and running after a short suspension. Deliveries to France, Germany and Italy had been temporarily suspended on ...

The new Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN, Andreas Hadjichrysanthou, presented his credentials to the Secretariat on Wednesday via the UN e-credentials system. He is set to present his ...

Cyprus has one of the highest percentage of adults with a disability who face financial difficulties among EU countries, Eurostat reported on Thursday. In 2019, 26.1 per cent of adults in the ...

A 66-year-old man has been remanded for four days in connection with the possession of a large amount of pesticides and refrigerant gas cylinders on Wednesday. Police officers stopped the ...

Police conducted 8,302 checks for violations of coronavirus protocols during 24 hours from Wednesday until Thursday and booked 93 individuals, including one business owner, for breaching measures in place to contain the spread ...

Police on Thursday warned drivers to be careful, drive at low speed and keep a distance from other vehicles in the mountains due to snow and ice on the roads. ...

Two thousand AstraZeneca vaccines will be delivered to Turkish Cypriot health authorities on Thursday, according to a spokesman. The spokesman said Turkish Cypriots have already received 4,500 PfizerBiontec jabs in January ...

Nicosia municipality on Wednesday invited tenders for a makeover of the old GSP stadium that will enhance efforts to upgrade the historical centre. The proposed project in the heart of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said Wednesday he would be tabling a two-state solution as a new idea during the planned informal five-party summit, whose date and venue have not ...

Health authorities on Wednesday announced the death of two men from Covid-19 and the detection of 121 new infections from 25,414 tests, a positivity rate of 0.48 per cent. Since the start of ...

The health ministry announced that 54 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and the obligatory weekly testing of employees. Self-employed ...

The danger of a third Covid-19 wave is real, according to Petros Karayiannis, professor of microbiology and molecular virology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. Karayiannis, who is also ...

Alecos Constantinides, Cyprus’ longest-serving newspaper columnist, died on Tuesday night aged 91, after a very brief illness. His death was not Covid related. His very last column for Alithia newspaper, for ...

After much ado, parliament on Thursday is expected to approve a code of ethics for its members, that could include a fine for MPs who fail to adhere by it. ...

A Native American actor and director living in the Paphos district died in a traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon. Ahab O’Hary, also known as Dick O ‘Hary, 58, who lived ...

The state has tolerated illegalities and irregularities at the Cypra abattoir over several years, Greens MP Yiorgos Perdikis said on Wednesday, the second day of his testimony before a committee ...

The fallout from Saturday’s protest – with footage of police violence shocking many observers – has engulfed the local political landscape but has also drawn an unusual amount of international scrutiny. ...

Farmers will receive €2.5 million in compensation for crop damage following the approval of the cabinet on Wednesday. A total of 875 farmers will benefit from the overall sum of €2.5m, split ...

The health ministry on Wednesday published its updated epidemiological risk assessment for Covid-19, leaving three countries in Category A from which under new rules travellers must self-isolate for 72 hours and ...