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With the summer on its way, our thoughts inevitably turn to holidays. But with Covid still holding sway, dare we leave Cyprus? Alix Norman asks whether its vacation or staycation ...

Flights to Cyprus from the UK over the next weeks will not increase progressively as expected, the main reason being the decision by the British government not to include the ...

The tourism industry was dealt a big blow by the UK government’s decision to keep Cyprus on the amber list. Deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios was in the ...

The health ministry announced one death and 83 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. A 92-year-old man passed away at Limassol hospital, bringing the total death toll to 363, of whom 241 were ...

The UN Secretary-General’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute is expected to arrive on the island within June for consultations ahead of another five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, Foreign ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday issued a response to threats of strike action from the state nurses’ union (Pasyno) to protest the disciplinary investigation of a number of mental ...

Greek Cypriot Kyriacos Tziambazis and Turkish Cypriot Untac Duzgun had not seen each other for over 460 days and wasted no time in meeting up once the crossings reopened on Friday. “...

Ruling Disy on Friday announced MP Annita Demetriou as candidate for the House presidency, the second highest role in the Republic, which has never been held by a woman since ...

Cyprus has moved into the ECDC’s orange category as the 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate dropped to 130 per 100,000 residents, the ministry of health said on Friday. A total of 1,154 positive ...

Akel party leader Andros Kyprianou announced on Friday that he will not be standing for re-election in July’s electoral congress. Speaking on the CyBC, Kyprianou said he had told ...

Ruling Disy will on Friday announce who they will formally nominate for new House president, in what should get the ducks in a row as to who is most likely ...

Nursing union Pasyno has called a 12-hour strike on Monday by its members to report health minister Constantinos Ioannou for “interference in the right to union action, for a hostile ...

Authorities on Thursday announced one more death from Covid-19, plus 53 new positives from ongoing island-wide testing. The deceased was a woman aged 73, who passed away at the ICU of Nicosia ...

Britain has removed Portugal from its quarantine-free travel list, the country’s transport minister said on Thursday, essentially shutting down the UK’s leisure travel market and deepening the pandemic ...

US President Joe Biden expressed concerns over the unilateral decision last October by the Turkish side to open part of the fenced area of Famagusta, it was announced on Thursday. ...

The health ministry on Thursday issued an official decree tweaking some of the curfew and SafePass rules, effective from 5pm on June 4. Firstly, wedding guests can be out until 3am ...

More than half of Cypriots are satisfied with the way the government has handled the pandemic, a recent Eurobarometer survey showed. The Eurobarometer is an initiative launched in 2007 by the ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and US Ambassador Judith Garber, accompanied by the Mayor of Larnaca Andreas Vyras, visited on Thursday the construction site of the Cyprus Centre for Land, Open-seas, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his readiness during a teleconference with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday for a meeting to discuss the confidence-building measures (CBMs) he has proposed. Anastasiades ...

June is likely to see few visitors in Cyprus, but there is cautious optimism as far as July and August are concerned, according to Philokypros Roussounides, director general of the ...

The mean concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) in urban areas in Cyprus stands at 13.8 μg/m3, slightly above the EU average, according to a Eurostat report for the year 2019 published ...

Turkey’s insistence on a two-state solution in Cyprus faces the universal negative reaction of the international community, of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the ...

Cyprus ranks sixth among the 27 EU member states in administering the first dose and third for having completed vaccinations against coronavirus, according to data released by the European centre for ...

Israel‘s opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he officially told the country’s president that he has reached agreements with political allies to form ...