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Will the EastMed pipeline bypass Cyprus? by Dr. Charles Ellinas The Greek and Cypriot press abounds with news and denials that a new plan has emerged for the much-talked about ...

Athalassa hospital has reached 120 per cent capacity, mental health nurses said on Thursday and called on the government to implement a plan to protect staff and patients. Increased admissions during ...

While the ‘Me Too’ movement in Cyprus is gaining greater traction within the justice system as more women speak up, there are children on this island with equally terrible things ...

Chelsea reclaimed their place in the Premier League’s top four as Mason Mount’s superb first-half goal earned them an impressive 1-0 victory at champions Liverpool on Thursday. Mount ...

Tottenham Hotspur rode their luck in the quest for a top-four finish in the Premier League with a 1-0 victory at Fulham on Thursday thanks to an own-goal by Tosin ...

A 25-year-old woman was said to be in a serious condition on Thursday after she was involved in a car accident in Limassol Police said the accident occurred on the ...

A 77-year-old man, reported earlier as a missing person, was on Thursday found dead in an open space at the Ayios Athanasios area of Limassol. The man, a resident of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel to convey to Turkey that it must refrain from further provocations in the region or any action that might impact the ...

Paphos criminal court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man to 12 months in prison, having earlier found him guilty on the charge of possessing child pornography. Beyond the jail sentence, the ...

Starting on May 1 British nationals vaccinated against the coronavirus will be allowed entry into Cyprus without any restrictions, deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said on Thursday. “We have informed the ...

Opposition MPs on Thursday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of playing ‘hide and seek’ over his private trips to the Seychelles using aircraft operated by a Saudi businessman who benefited from ...

The European Union is planning to extend its export authorisation scheme for Covid-19 vaccines to the end of June, two EU sources told Reuters on Thursday, as a shipment of ...

Authorities on Thursday announced that 384 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus, while no new deaths were recorded. In total, 39,807 tests (PCR and antigen rapid) were carried out. The 384 ...

A special orientation card, a pencil, a list of questions, a phone, and you’re all set to go for an outdoor activity. An upcoming street quest in Nicosia will ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced that 42 people tested positive for the coronavirus among 7,576 samples taken from schools islandwide. The tests were carried out among pupils, over the age of 12, ...

In order to spread some festive cheer around town, Limassol’s Carnival King toured the city on ‘stinky Thursday’, a tradition observed each year to mark the beginning of the ...

The leaders of the two largest parties on Thursday held a “sincere” discussion ahead of the informal five-way conference on Cyprus in late April, both stressing they will never stray ...

This month’s World Cup qualifiers in South America are in serious doubt, with European clubs unlikely to release their players to travel amid concern over the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

U.S. scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the ...

Limassol police are investigating a labour accident after a 22-year-old fell from a nine-metre height in a construction site in Moni area. The injured man is hospitalised in Limassol general ...

Cyprus’ coronavirus vaccination programme found itself at the centre of domestic political infighting on Thursday, with opposition parties blasting the government for bad planning and Disy countering that vaccinations were ...

A severe 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the east of New Zealand’s North Island on Friday, prompting a tsunami warning, and authorities advised people in some coastal areas to move ...

Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic apologised on Thursday after jokingly suggesting that Russia take a part of western Ukraine as payment for delivering doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to ...

Opposition MPs suggested on Thursday there was a cover-up effort afoot after police would not say whether they had questioned former finance minister Harris Georgiades and former senior executives of ...