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The majority of Turkish Cypriots favour a federal settlement in Cyprus as the strongest option while Turkish settlers prefer annexation by Ankara as the best option according to a study ...

Who would have thought that the Cyprus political party system would have produced an expert on Covid-19 vaccines? Edek seems to think it is qualified to issue verdicts on the ...

In 2017 the now-defunct cooperative bank – run by the state at the time – signed a no-bid contract with asset management outfit Altamira by which the latter would manage the lender’s €7 ...

The health ministry announced 385 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday from 45,598 PCR and rapid tests yielding a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. Eighty-three of the new cases were in Limassol ...

Following the opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which clarified that, after a thorough investigation, there was no link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the thromboembolic events reported by ...

The European Union has frozen plans to blacklist more senior executives at Turkey‘s state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), four diplomats said, in the clearest sign that a diplomatic offensive ...

A total of 55 testing sites will operate on Friday, with the majority in the capital, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The test sites provide free antigen tests for the ...

Authorities are deeply concerned over the fact that the more infectious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain was detected in all 45 samples sent from Cyprus to the European Centre for ...

The EU will be present at the conference on Cyprus, convened by the UN, both in the initial phase in Geneva and in the next phase of in-depth negotiations, a ...

The police are set for significant anti-riot control equipment upgrades, of which among them are five new vehicles and thousands of batons. According to publicly available government tenders, the police ...

Bird trapping with the use of mist nets is at its lowest level in almost two decades but the use of limesticks is on the rise, boosted by a change ...

A 24-year-old patient is the youngest person at the coronavirus reference hospital in Famagusta, that is now treating 68 people with Covid-19, director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Thursday. According to Hadjiyianni ...

Paphos police arrested eight people late on Wednesday on suspicion of illegal gambling and for violating the curfew in place as part of the measures against the coronavirus. Traffic police ...

The Council of Europe has called on Cyprus to justify its prevention of boats with migrants from arriving on the island, conditions at reception centres and its reasons for striking ...

Politically exposed persons (PEP) had substantial loan amounts written off or swapped debt for assets of lower value, among others, an audit into the entity that succeeded the former co-op ...

Young hacker Joshua Epiphaniou has been sentenced by a US court to 12 months and a day in prison, on top of the nearly four years he has already served in ...

The Electricity Authority (EAC) is ready to move into a new energy era with the use of natural gas and renewable energy sources (RES), chairman of the board Michalis Komodromos ...

The majority of people who have had COVID-19 are protected from getting it again for at least six months, a study published on Wednesday showed, but older people are more ...

In a decision that could have a bearing on Cyprus, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Wednesday that the fact that limesticks were supposedly a traditional ...

Ever since the Makarios presidency, the construction of roads has always been considered a big vote-winner. We cannot say whether it is as effective today as it was in the ‘70...

Police fined two women aged 40 and 25, €300 each for participating in the carnival party last Sunday in Limassol. The 40-year-old was identified through a photo posted on social media while the 25...

Larnaca municipality will install a special bin for plastic bottle caps at its temporary green spot so that these can be recycled. Net proceeds will go to support the municipal ...

The health ministry announced 382 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday out of 38,685 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.99 per cent. No deaths were reported, but there are now 218 ...

Pupils with disabilities can get tested for coronavirus in state hospitals by providing saliva which is then processed through the molecular method (PCR) but saliva self-testing is not considered reliable, ...