#Cyprus

A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of sexually abusing a schoolgirl between June 2019 and January 2020. The Paphos criminal court found the ...

Nine people will be tried by the criminal court in connection with the attack against the Dias building on July 18, police said on Tuesday. Their trial has been set for ...

More than 5,000 seafarers have been vaccinated so far as part of the government’s initiative to offer Covid-19 jabs to crews of ships flying the Cypriot flag or using the ...

A 48-year-old man caught driving seven times over the alcohol limit will be held in prison until his trial on Friday, the Famagusta District Court ruled on Tuesday. At around 7.15...

The University of Cyprus will operate a walk-in centre for the vaccination of its students and staff as of Thursday, it announced on Tuesday. The university said the operation of ...

Neapolis University Paphos has announced it will be operating physically during the winter semester of the academic year 2021-2022. Following the relevant decision of its senate, the university said lessons ...

European University Cyprus ranks among 72 top universities in the world that have been granted a 5-Star assessment by the international ranking organisation QS Top Universities. Following the global assessment by ...

A 29-year-old food delivery man reported he was assaulted by four other men on motorcycles who stole his wallet and mobile phone late on Monday in Limassol. The assault took ...

More than 80,000 people living in Cyprus cannot afford a one-week holiday according to research carried out by the European Trade Union Confederation published on Monday. They account for 79.2 per cent ...

Four deaths from coronavirus and 493 new cases were reported on Monday out of 33,583 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.47 per cent. The deaths were of a woman, aged 81, ...

A population-based study using data from the Cyprus Paediatric Oncology Registry showed that thyroid cancer incidence in Cypriot children and teenagers is among the world’s highest. Published in Volume 74 ...

A total of 39 free rapid testing mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Tuesday, the health ministry announced, listing the population groups which will be eligible to visit the ...

Only one country, Liechtenstein, was promoted to the Green category for travel, while several others have been demoted according to the latest epidemiological risk assessment to be in effect from ...

The statistical service on Monday issued a new invitation for candidates interested as working for the October to December census. The initial invitation for 1,100 census-takers and supervisors was made on ...

Having secured a condemnatory statement from UN Security Council presidency and the UN resolution for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate, without the ‘British tail’, the Cyprus government will now ...

Two coronavirus patients are bring treated in the Paphos general hospital Covid ward after it reopened for the second time during the coronavirus pandemic this week to help relieve the ...

After protests to the UK, which drafted the UN Security Council Presidential Statement on Varosha, the Cyprus government succeeded in having a reference to the “Turkish and Turkish Cypriot leaders” ...

Sunday is set to be an important day for Cypriot athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games, with several involved in their first endeavours. Cyclist Andri Christoforou, one of the island’...

Close to 72 per cent of the adult population (over 18) has received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine while 63.2 per cent have completed their vaccination, the health ministry said ...

In the end, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan made a passing reference to the reopening of the fenced area of Varosha in a speech he gave in the occupied north ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday said that silencing of the media will not be accepted, after an attack on Sunday night against the offices of the Sigma media group that ...

Occupied municipalities are saddened to have to stand by and wait for the ‘good news’ expected to be announced by visiting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, their president Petros Kareklas said ...

Cyprus’ ongoing migration issues were outlined by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris in Slovenia on Friday during a meeting with several of his European counterparts. During the discussions, Nouris said the ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has given the nod to Cyprus’ recovery and resilience plan (RRP), saying it was well balanced and addressed key structural challenges, and was ...