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Cold call ban meant Forex scam was not on regulators’ radar Regulators in Cyprus had no indication that an Israeli permanent resident involved in the Forex sector was suspected of ...

One person died from coronavirus on Saturday as 174 new cases were recorded. The death was an 83-year-old man who died on Friday at the general hospital in Limassol. His death ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Saturday President Nicos Anastasiades will chair a meeting in the coming week to discuss migrant flows. The meeting has been scheduled to get the ...

A mobile vaccination unit operated on Saturday morning in Palaichori as part of the health ministry’s efforts to expand vaccination coverage across the island. The unit operated from 8am ...

Police on Saturday arrested a 38-year-old man in relation with a murder attempt against a 47-year-old. The man is suspected of deliberately crashing his car into the victim, injuring him ...

The United Nations is trying to get new Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus Colin Stewart on the ground as soon as it can, Deputy ...

Cyprus aspires to cover its entire road network with an intelligent transportation system within the next three years, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said following the signing of a new contract ...

About this time every year, government ministers go before the House finance committee to discuss their ministry’s respective budget for the following year. They are always at pains to ...

It’s time to make some decisions that will take educational reform a step further, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday during a press conference on the ministry’s ...

The health ministry announced 227 new cases of Covid-19 and no deaths on Friday. As there were no deaths, the death toll remains 575, of whom 367 were men and 208 women. There are 73 ...

Government, parties, unions and professionals on Friday attacked a proposal by socialist Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos that they said would fundamentally change the philosophy of the health system Gesy and ...

The north’s new ‘prime minister’ Faiz Sucuoglu on Friday announced the new ‘cabinet’ after given the mandate to form a new ‘government’ following his election last week as head ...

The interior ministry on Friday announced that the Ledra Street crossing will suspend operations for 48 hours due to construction work. According to the ministry, the crossing point will close between 11 ...

Most businesses said they saw a rise in prices of up to 30 per cent in the past six months, according to the results of a survey published on Friday. The ...

People aged 50 and over who received the Janssen anti-coronavirus vaccine can receive a booster jab only through the walk-in vaccination centres, the health ministry said on Friday. The decision was ...

The introduction of electronic scanning of the SafePass will start on Monday on a voluntary basis, the health ministry said on Friday, to ease businesses into the measure until November 22 ...

One in five people in Cyprus said they were unable to keep their home adequately warm last year, a Eurostat survey showed on Friday. Cyprus ranked third to last as 21 ...

The United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) António Guterres announced the appointment of Colin Stewart of Canada as his new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in ...

Opposition on Thursday called for caution over updating the 1923 law on infectious diseases to avoid restricting basic freedoms, with Akel arguing that lack of proper definitions of some words makes ...

The Council of Ministers on Thursday decided to cut the VAT charged on the electricity bills of ‘vulnerable households’ from 19 to 5 per cent. It was a measure deemed necessary to ...

Coronavirus infections are hitting record levels in many countries across Europe as winter takes hold, prompting a call for action from the World Health Organisation which described the new wave ...

Health authorities reported no new fatalities and 252 positives from tests for the coronavirus, while the number of patients in hospital continued to tick up. The death toll remains 575, with the ...

Cyprus signed an agreement Thursday procuring from Israel a modern system to be used for the surveillance of the buffer zone. A defence ministry statement said the agreement was signed ...

Health ministry figures released on Thursday show that by November 3, double jabbed people had reached 80 per cent of the adult population. The ministry said that 82.3 per cent had received their ...