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Police on Sunday said they were looking for the whereabouts of a 43-year-old male detainee who escaped after being transferred to the Paphos hospital. Younes Amrani Boukhobza from Morocco had ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos said he would suggest to the Holy Synod the punishment of clergy who urge people not to get vaccinated reports said on Sunday. According to state broadcaster CyBC, ...

Electricity prices will not be coming down for the foreseeable future By Elias Hazou Electricity prices will not be coming down for the foreseeable future due to a perfect storm ...

There was good economic news to report this week. Unemployment fell to the lowest level since June 2009. In July this year, according to Eurostat, it stood at 5.2 per cent compared ...

SADLY, it does not look like we will be returning to the constitution of 1960 any time soon, Prez Nik’s zealous and earnest initiative failing to convince anyone, not even ...

One death and 295 new coronavirus cases were announced on Saturday out of 55,492 tests with a positivity rate of 0.53 per cent. The death concerns a 77-year-old man who died on Friday ...

The first Intergovernmental Summit between Cyprus and Egypt was described as “historic” by President Nicos Anastasiades who laid the groundwork for closer ties on Saturday with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel ...

Delta continues to be the dominant Covid-19 variant in Cyprus, the health ministry said on Saturday after the latest sequencing results on samples of people found positive for the virus ...

If the Turkish side changes the status of Varosha, then it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to reach a Cyprus settlement, the Ambassador of Greece to Cyprus, Theocharis ...

A ceiling on fuel prices is not justified, according to the state consumer protection service, which rejected opposition claims that price hikes in Cyprus were higher than other countries. The ...

The committee in charge of naming streets of the Limassol municipality is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss proposals for renaming main thoroughfares in the town. The new names ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 238 cases of Covid-19 on Friday. The deceased are all men, three of whom died on Thursday and one on Friday. An 85-year-old man ...

The University of Cyprus physics department wants stricter protection from the coronavirus in the new school year, disagreeing with the senate’s decision to allow unvaccinated students and staff in ...

August this year was the hottest month in terms of average daily temperature since records began in Cyprus, it emerged on Friday. According to an announcement by the press and ...

Though a large part of the population in Cyprus has been vaccinated there are still fears among many when it comes to the jabs, some understandable but others that derive ...

Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis warned that moving parliament permanently from the centre would create serious problems to the capital, including harming efforts to revitalise areas neighbouring the buffer zone. Yiorkadjis ...

The Holy Synod should take a stance on bishop Morphou Neophytos, a theologist said on Friday, saying the former’s statement that he got coronavirus after praying to the Mother ...

August has seen an 86 per cent rise in Covid deaths compared with the previous month, according to the national epidemiological report released on Friday. Eighty-five people died from Covid-19 in ...

The rollout of the third dose of the anti-coronavirus vaccine started on Friday at nursing homes, after being given the green light by cabinet the previous day. One hundred and ...

Traffic cameras will go on trial operation for a three-month period in late October, ahead of the long-awaited introduction of a system authorities hope will be instrumental in improving road ...

It is quite astonishing that a rash remark by President Anastasiades last week, during his public sparring with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar about the revocation of 14 passports, has dominated ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) said Thursday that its utility bills have shot up over the past year for reasons beyond its control, adding that it was unfair to ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced one death attributed to Covid-19, as testing yielded 235 new positives and a positivity rate of 0.45 per cent. The decedent was a woman aged 83 who ...

Cyprus on Thursday paid tribute to legendary Greek composer, public figure and writer, Mikis Theodorakis, who has died at the age of 96 but who also had a long association with ...