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The ad hoc House committee set up to examine issues relating to politically exposed persons (PEP) is to disband ahead of the parliamentary elections in May, but work will continue ...

A total of 58 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The government aims to help the economic sectors stricken by the pandemic but also to invest in alternative areas with emphasis on the relocation of companies to Cyprus, research and ...

Expectations that further relaxations of Covid measures would be announced on Wednesday were crushed after the cabinet postponed its decision following a spike in cases this week. The plan was ...

Food waste, the formation of a strategic plan for energy and the climate are top of the agenda for the House environment committee and the ‘parallel parliament’ for the environment, ...

Local activist has called on people to walk in migrants’ shoes this Saturday in a 20km hike from Kokkinotrimithia to Nicosia’s old city centre. Starting from the metal gate ...

The Famagusta reference hospital is currently 96 per cent full, its medical director Dr Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Wednesday. She said that 72 patients were being treated at the hospital, with the ...

Just as Cyprus began to raise its hopes of an influx of British tourists from the end of May, and with preparations underway to take bookings from April1, according to ...

The director of BirdLife Cyprus says controlled hunting can be compatible with wildlife conservation Conservationists and hunters should talk more, but dialogue with the hunting lobby is not my favourite ...

Supposedly protected coastal areas are being nibbled away by development Uncontrolled development is destroying natural habitats and all that is unique about the island, environmentalists say. Nowhere more so than ...

To fight the flow of immigrants from the north, the interior ministry decided to install barbed wire along the buffer zone, along an 11km stretch from Astromeritis to Nicosia airport. ...

The Paphos regional board of tourism is looking towards the domestic market to kickstart the sector and expects the government to give the green light to lift restrictive measures put ...

The health ministry announced 420 new cases on Tuesday from a total of 34,799 tests, a positivity rate of 1.21 per cent, although no new deaths were reported. The total number of deaths ...

Parliament had no role in the approval of citizenships as part of Cyprus’ controversial investment programme, its director told an inquiry on Tuesday. Socratis Socratous said parliament staff had no ...

Cautious optimism following President Nicos Anastasiades’ morning meeting with the coronavirus advisory team for the next phase of gradual relaxations was brought into question later on Tuesday when the health ...

After a nine-year impasse, Israel and Cyprus on Tuesday reached an understanding over gas reserves straddling their maritime border in a development hailed as a “breakthrough” by Israel’s energy ...

The preliminary results of a study by the University of Cyprus found presence of the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the urban wastewater of Limassol, the town’s ...

The average age of patients at Famagusta Covid hospital is 64, with the youngest one receiving treatment at the moment being 17, its director said Tuesday. On Monday there were 145 patients being ...

Cyprus Post has announced extended opening hours for its Nicosia district office on Prodromou Street due to the accumulation of large volume of parcels. The office will open normally at 8...

To date, 103,283 people in Cyprus have received at least one Covid vaccination dose and 29,821 were given both jabs, reports said on Tuesday. Among the 73.462 who received the first dose were 1,345 ...

The committee of inquiry investigating the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme will resume its hearings on Tuesday, following a break of about a month. Next to testify will be Socrates Socratous, ...

As is the practice, International Women’s Day was marked in Cyprus with the usual platitudes issued by the political parties and unions, about inequality, patriarchal society, stereotypes, discrimination and ...

The two main suspects in the killing of a 20-year-old man from Syria last April in Paphos pleaded not guilty on Monday to the charge of premeditated murder. The suspects, 22 ...

Parliament on Monday wrapped up discussion of a bill providing for severe penalties – criminal and otherwise – to persons or legal entities aiding and abetting the unlawful entry of persons into ...