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Police said they will be stepping up their presence over the August 15 holiday weekend to avert traffic collisions and protect properties. There will be more police patrols and an increased ...

The British High Commission has stressed the need for UK nationals to continue to vote and be eligible to stand as candidates in local elections and was awaiting clarification on ...

The Paphos district, the main industry of which is tourism, had been dealt an irreparable blow, said the director of the Paphos chamber of commerce and industry, Marinos Stylianou. Although ...

More than 25,000 trees and shrubs are expected to be planted in the mountainous areas of the Larnaca and Limassol districts affected by last month’s fires, the forestry department said ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 419 more had tested positive from 54,173 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.77 per cent. The death ...

The government has come up with a temporary arrangement for Turkish Cypriots to obtain an EU green pass. Turkish Cypriots currently face problems as regards travel abroad since the vaccination ...

Hundreds of non-Gesy beneficiaries braved the heat to wait in line at walk-in vaccination centres on Friday as Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas urged members of the public who have yet ...

The Famagusta for Cyprus initiative has set up a phone line refugees can call for advice regarding their properties in the fenced area of Varosha. The group said they have ...

A total of 76.3 per cent of the adult population had received the first jab against the coronavirus and 69.9 per cent were fully vaccinated by August 12, the health ministry said on ...

State officials welcomed the Cypriot firefighting mission who returned from Greece early on Friday after battling “some of the worst fires” for more than a week in Attica and Evia. ...

Visitors at the Parasolia beach in Kiti on Thursday were thrilled to see scores of newly hatched baby turtles making their way to the water. The baby loggerhead sea turtles, (...

Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home ...

In at least one meeting, members of the Covid scientific advisory committee said most transmission of the virus occurred within households rather than in retail or hospitality venues, legal filings ...

Tragedy had to strike for the authorities to come round to thinking that permits issued for the possession of a shotgun by hunters, must be reviewed from time to time. ...

A year before the recent catastrophic fire that burned nearly 55 square kilometres in the forest areas of Limassol and Larnaca and killed four people, employees at the forestry department wrote ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced two more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while nationwide testing detected 402 new positives. The two latest decedents were a man aged 91, who passed away on ...

The revision of history in education to reflect ‘national values’ was among the issues raised in the north this week with the Turkish Cypriot leadership backing the idea, reports said ...

Mobile rapid test units will once again make the rounds when secondary schools reopen in September, the health ministry has assured teachers’ unions, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. ...

BirdLife Cyprus is asking for assurances from the Game Service that an EU-mandated programme to limit hunting of the threatened turtle dove this autumn will be effectively monitored. It fears ...

Cyprus is close to the EU average as concerns the age at which young people leave the parental household, a Eurostat survey published on Thursday revealed. The survey marks “International ...

All 17 people aboard a vessel that sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Milos have been rescued, the coast guard said on Thursday. All aboard were Greek citizens. The ...

Conservationists on Thursday called for a comprehensive policy for the safe movement of visitors within the Akamas national forest, accusing authorities of stalling while lives are lost. The Friends of ...

A 58-year-old man arrested on suspicion of shooting dead his 29-year-old neighbour in Yeri during an argument over a parking spot was remanded in custody for eight days on Thursday. ...

Paphos lifeguards are bracing for thousands of visitors to descend on the district’s beaches this coming weekend, the busiest holiday period of the year locally. Paphos is the top ...