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There are no thoughts on scrapping the SMS requirements for leaving the house once lockdown measures are set to be lifted on May 10, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday. ...

Tackling the consequences of the pandemic on workers is of the utmost importance for the government, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Saturday in a speech marking May Day. The ...

By Annette Chrysostomou A group of parents have launched a campaign to legalise homeschooling in Cyprus, arguing the coronavirus has proven this system was successful. “In the past year, many ...

A number of U.S. citizens are among the dozens killed or injured in a stampede at a Jewish religious festival in Israel, a U.S. Embassy spokesperson said on ...

Akel general secretary Andros Kyprianou pledged to continue defending the rights of the working people who are the backbone of the economy and producers of wealth, in a speech on ...

“They’re both microbiological wonders,” James Morton says of two of his great loves: sourdough and beer brewing. “They’re both very scientific, very measured. And they’re both ways ...

An oil refinery in Paphos was up in flames on Friday night with four fire trucks on the scene until the fire was out, spokesman for the service Andreas Kettis ...

A Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson has essentially dismissed a report that during this week’s informal talks in Geneva on the Cyprus settlement the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic ...

When Liverpool were romping to the title last season Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling promised there would be a “massive reaction” from Pep Guardiola’s chastened side and his ominous ...

Hollywood is full of celebrities’ children who have carved out an acting career in their own right, choosing to make their own way rather than relying on their mum’s ...

The Bank of Cyprus has reactivated its special initiative SupportCY to provide immediate cover for the needs of patients being treated in Covid-19 wards. Thanks to the ongoing pandemic crisis ...

Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those ...

EU regulators accused Apple on Friday of distorting competition in the music streaming market, siding with Spotify in a case that could lead to a hefty fine and changes in ...

AstraZeneca said its Covid-19 vaccine sales were $275 million in the first-quarter and it is on track to deliver 200 million doses a month from April, as better-than-expected results and a second ...

British trade minister Liz Truss expects the trade dispute over Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) to be resolved by July when a freeze on tit-for-tat tariffs expires, she ...

Bitcoin rose 6.54 per cent to $57,098.08 on Friday, adding $3,504.11 to its previous close, and analysts credited increasing interest by major investors as the driver. An expert panel at an online conference ...

Auditor-general also being sued for defamation The producers behind Jiu Jitsu – the Nicolas Cage sci-fi/action film shot in Cyprus in 2019 – are taking legal action against the government with two ...

A little over a year ago, President Anastasiades had defended the strict lockdown over Easter, by telling us it was the way to ensure we could celebrate Easter properly in 2021. ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 676 new Covid-19 positives from 47,621 PCR and rapid tests. The positivity rate was 1.42 per cent. The deaths concerned three men aged 37, 63 and 68 and one ...

A single dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, except in people who have already been infected with ...

Imagine controlling your computer just by thinking. It sounds far-out, but real advances are happening on these so-called brain-computer interfaces. More researchers and companies are moving into the area. Yet ...

Enjoying the refined Regency era misadventures of ‘Bridgerton’? You’re not alone… season one of the hit Netflix series was apparently viewed by a record 82 million households around the world. ...

The European Union aims to introduce a central system in June to record citizens’ COVID-19 vaccines, tests and recovery to help them travel across the 27-nation bloc and open up ...

The health ministry has issued the testing sites for Saturday as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Limassol (16 units) Agios Ioannis Eleimon Church, Limassol 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. ‘...