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A red spectre has washed over the EU as the bloc of 27 nations and its regions remains overwhelmingly in the ECDC’s dark red status, including Cyprus. The data compiled ...

Forestry department employees protest understaffing Forestry Department employees are staging a three-hour work stoppage on Friday to protest understaffing. The employees gathered outside the finance ministry on Friday morning, before ...

It’s not just one party that is coming to Nicosia this month but two! It has certainly been a while since we have been able to write those words ...

A man and a woman are under arrest on suspicion of attempting to fly out of Cyprus from Paphos Airport used forged travel documents. The woman, aged 19 from the Congo, ...

In today’s episode, the government plans to go ahead with taxation reform, including raising the corporation rate and introducing carbon tax and fossil fuels taxes to achieve the country’...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Burglars broke into a hairdressing salon in Paphos and made off with €6000 in cash and €4000-worth of products, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. It said that the owner ...

Most of the 54 people killed and the dozens who were injured when a truck full of migrants flipped over in southern Mexico on Thursday were Guatemalans, authorities said on Friday, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is holding his first meeting on Friday with Colin Stewart, who this week assumed his duties as the UNSG’s Special Representative and head of the UN ...

Police reported 15 individuals and five shop owners for violating the measures aiming to contain the spread of Covid-19. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours ending on 06:00 ...

Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Amazon 1.13 billion euros ($1.28 billion) for alleged abuse of market dominance, in one of the biggest penalties imposed on a US ...

Banks need to rethink their business model to be able to better compete with financial technology (fintech) companies, Central Bank of Cyprus governor Constantinos Herodotou said at the Banking Forum ...

Eleftheria Square is an extremely important project by one of the best architects of the 21st century Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Thursday expressing pride that the local authority ...

The new UN Special Representative, Colin Stewart, took a tour of the buffer zone on Wednesday and on Friday will have separate meetings with the two leaders. Anastasiades and Tatar ...

The total sales of motor vehicles decreased by 9.4 per cent year-on-year between January and November of 2021, according to a report by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). Meanwhile, total registrations in ...

Venus Minerals has announced that it has revised its mineral resource estimate at Kokkinoyia by 240 per cent The Kokkinoyia sector is part of the Magellan Project, 100 per cent owned by ...

Neo Plaza is inviting the public to visit its Christmas Village, which will be open until January 9. Wooden houses and elves are ready to offer loukoumades, mulled wine and traditional ...

For years, the state of justice in Cyprus has been troubling stakeholders, the business community and society in general, and, despite the continuous efforts made to improve the situation, it ...

It will take a few days to judge whether Iran is showing flexibility in talks about Tehran and Washington resuming compliance with the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, U.S. State Department ...

A 30-year-old man was on Thursday arrested on suspicion of assaulting a bus driver and causing damage to the vehicle after he was asked to wear a face mask. According ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has slapped a €790,000 fine on Bank of Cyprus for the latter’s violation of certain provisions of the law relating to money laundering. In ...

Two inmates at the central prisons in Nicosia held their nuptials on Thursday – and a Netflix crew happened to be on hand to document the unusual wedding. And no, this ...

The European Union needs an emergency response mechanism that a member state can trigger when the bloc’s external borders are under threat, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. ...

Auditor general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday accused the health insurance organisation (HIO) of violating the law and philosophy of Gesy, charges quickly denied by the HIO which insisted that it ...