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A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. ...

Paphos police said on Monday it had deported eight people who were found living illegally in the republic. The deportation took place on the basis of voluntary departure, Paphos’ assistant ...

A luxurious super-yacht linked to the owner of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, who is currently under British and European Union sanctions, docked in Gibraltar on Monday and was ...

On Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 32 free testing units for eligible groups will be operating District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Lefkosia (14 units) Mall of Cyprus (underground parking area) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 ...

The health ministry continues to be plagued by flaws in its way of doing business and keeping accounts, with waste of taxpayer money, the Audit Office has found. In a ...

The government will formally seek approval from the European Commission later this year to transform the successor entity to the failed co-op bank into an asset management company. In parliament ...

Come warmer weather and the island’s music world kicks festivities up a notch. With the first signs of spring and summer, though delayed this year, annual festivals, concerts and ...

A 63-year-old man died from coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Monday as another 5,286 new infections were detected from 114,066 tests, a positivity rate of 4.63 per cent. The new death was ...

Vegetable producers said on Monday that the rise in prices is primarily down to supply shortages imposed by the persistently bad weather of the past three months. “The weather has ...

Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars ...

A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta FB.O was guilty of “extremist activity”, but the ruling will not affect its WhatsApp messenger service, focusing on the U.S. ...

The dream turned into a nightmare for Formula One world champion Max Verstappen in Bahrain on Sunday when Red Bull’s challenge for victory in the season-opening race ended in ...

The ‘day after’ for ties between the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Greece, with an emphasis on trade and investments, were the main focus of the Economist’s Sixth London Business ...

By Constantinos Tsindas and Elias Hazou There was still no reaction on Monday following the public endorsement of Averof Neophytou by President Nicos Anastasiades at a raucous Disy conference on ...

On March 21, marking the International Day of Forests, Unilever Tseriotis Cyprus and Alphamega Hypermarkets held a press conference announcing a new initiative supporting the Cyprus Forest Association. Via this drive, ...

No further relaxations of the coronavirus measures are expected, a health ministry official said after members of the scientific advisory committee evaluated the current epidemiological picture in Cyprus with Health ...

A local charity has donated over €200,000 to expand and renovate the state Makarios children hospital, which included the new operating theatre inaugurated Monday by the health minister. The operating theatre ...

As many as 1.08 million people in England could be borrowing from a loan shark, more than three times the government’s most recent estimate, according to a report by a ...

By Prudence Wade A new season means fresh jewellery trends to get excited about. Much like the rest of fashion, everything to do with the Noughties is back with a ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides send a message of solidarity to all refugees on Monday, to mark the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination. In a written statement, Lottides ...

ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum, consortium partners in Block 10 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone have found “high-quality natural gas” in the ‘Glaucus-2’ appraisal well, the energy ministry said Monday. In a ...

Cyprus’ fourth largest reservoir, at Kannaviou in Paphos, overflowed on Sunday morning, the community council president Abraham Abraham announced. The reservoir has a capacity of 17 million 168 thousand cubic metres and ...

The amount of money linked to housing schemes for residents in mountain and remote communities has been tripled while criteria have been relaxed to make more communities eligible, Interior Minister ...

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 ...