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President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday attributed the tanking of the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme to a few bad actors, saying that whereas the programme did suffer from flaws, the corruption revelations ...

Lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution authorising the House President to make public a much-awaited list of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) with bad loans. The resolution passed with a majority, ...

“When the dust settles… we all have a story, a song, a poem, a truth in our hearts we want to articulate to the outside world,” says performing arts association ...

The health ministry released the testing sites for Friday. The testing programme of the employees will be carried out at the same time as the testing programme of the general ...

The audit office has flagged the leasing of an extensive expanse of state land to an entrepreneur for the purpose of building photovoltaic (PV) parks, noting that the entire process ...

Europe’s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies intensified on Thursday when the European Union warned drug companies such as AstraZeneca that it would use all legal means or even ...

Police are investigating a potential breach of Italy’s COVID-19 regulations by Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo after he allegedly travelled between the regions of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta. Valle ...

The met office issued a yellow weather warning from 8pm on Thursday until 11am Friday for heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms. “Local showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected. The rain ...

“See Me: A Global Concert” is the result of an international collaboration between hundreds of musicians, artists and film teams who took a leap of faith, in the midst of ...

Two-million-year-old seashell fossils were found in the Pedieos riverbed in Nicosia, the environment commissioner Klelia Vassiliou said on Thursday. The “surprise” discovery was part of an on-site visit with Lakatamia’...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has extended the deadline for submission of notifications by UK firms wishing to make use of the Temporary Permission Regime (TPR). By virtue ...

The Larnaca criminal court sentenced a 41-year-old man to five years in prison on Thursday after found guilty of accessing and possessing child porn material. The man was arrested last ...

The rapid test point at the spiritual centre at the metropolitan church of Paralimni will remain open for two extra hours on Thursday, the health ministry announced. According to the ...

In this video, we take a closer look at Monaco’s Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel – a favourite of celebrities and Formula One enthusiasts who seek to combine their favourite motor ...

By Abi Jackson How are you finding 2021 so far? Not too bad? Utterly brutal? There’s no right or wrong answer. Just as there’s no right or wrong answer ...

The president’s former law firm was among those probed by the Bar association in the past without finding anything improper, its chairman Christos Clerides told an inquiry into the ...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine should only be given to people aged between 18 and 64, Germany’s vaccine committee said in a draft update to its vaccine recommendation, a day ahead of ...

The agriculture ministry said on Thursday the creation of a green point in Avgorou was almost complete and that Sotira and Dherynia were next in line, following complaints by the ...

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that he is banning Vokswagen from official government service. The German automaker is in the process of pulling out of Turkey, after ...

EasyJet urged governments on Thursday to set out a plan for easing COVID-19 travel restrictions as the British airline warned its prospects had worsened for January-March and it could not ...

Wizz Air on Thursday announced the addition of three new destinations from/to Larnaca. There will be new routes to Oslo, Tel Aviv and Kharkov along with the allocation of ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that people aged 86 and above who have not yet reserved a slot will be able to book their Covid-19 jab on the government vaccination ...

The decision to ban access to nature trails, the forests and mountains as part of measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus is illogical and restricts human rights, the Green ...

Manchester United have condemned the ‘mindless idiots’ who racially abused Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial on social media and have called for stronger measures “to prevent this kind of behaviour”. ...