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The health ministry on Friday announced the dates the vaccination portal will open in the upcoming week, completing coverage for all age groups 18 and over and focusing on giving those ...

The state Legal Service said on Friday it has filed the first case relating to Cyprus’ controversial citizenship by investment programme to at Larnaca district court. The case involves five ...

Israel pummelled Gaza with artillery fire and air strikes on Friday as it targeted Palestinian militant tunnels to try to stop persistent rocket attacks on Israeli towns. The 40-minute, pre-dawn ...

Friday was the first day on the job for the new Kokos pelican at the Pelican Restaurant in Paphos, having trained alongside his late colleague – Kokos. Last month, the veteran ...

A SafePass will no longer be required for outdoor activities, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced on Friday as part of further relaxations of coronavirus measures. The relaxations, announced after a ...

Cyprus’ positivity rate has dramatically reduced from about 1.2 per cent to 0.2 per cent, the weekly national report showed on Friday, and according to the health ministry that is due to ...

The attorney-general on Thursday sought to downplay the implications of a court case, where the state stayed the prosecution against a man facing charges of incitement to assembly and protest ...

With elections approaching, the government decided it was a good time to advertise its commitment to fighting corruption. An event, addressed by Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis at the presidential palace ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced one more death from Covid-19 and 213 new positives from island-wide testing. The new cases came from 74,926 PCR and rapid tests, for a positivity rate of 0.28 ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has sent letters to the UN secretary-general, the UN Security Council`s permanent and non-permanent members, EU institutions as well as EU heads of state and government ...

The cabinet will on Friday approve Cyprus’ National Recovery and Resilience Plan, the blueprint containing projects and reforms with a view to absorb almost €1 billion from the EU’s Recovery ...

The government has decided not to proceed with the digitalisation of the SafePass, but to directly implement the EU Green Pass, which is expected to be implemented in June. In ...

The deputy minister of innovation Kyriacos Kokkinos on Thursday blamed external factors for the technical problems with the vaccination portal, which has led to long delays in booking appointments and ...

COVID-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question when, or ...

In moves to boost the vaccination programme, preparations are underway to enable all adult Gesy beneficiaries regardless of age to book an appointment for an AstraZeneca vaccine on the portal ...

The government on Thursday signed a contract for a €86.8m project involving the construction of a stretch of road between Ayia Marinouda and Stroumpi, which is part of the new ...

Cyprus, which likes to promote itself as the island of love, had the highest number of marriages relative to population in the EU in 2019, but also ranked very high on ...

Israel prepared ground troops along the Gaza border on Thursday and Hamas launched rocket barrages at Israel as international calls mounted for an end to the region’s fiercest hostilities ...

A record number of people submitted their candidacies on Wednesday for the parliamentary elections. There will be nearly 660 candidates, 150 more than had stood for election in 2016, and an unprecedented 15 parties/...

Though encouraged by a significant drop in illegal bird trapping, BirdLife Cyprus has said is concerned about a spike in incidents of illegal shooting of protected species at different blackspots, ...

Two deaths from coronavirus and 260 new positive cases were reported on Wednesday. The deaths were a woman, aged 82, and a man, aged 47. The health ministry no longer announces the vaccination ...

Cyprus has climbed to fourth place among EU states in terms of the number of vaccine doses per 100 people in the total population, the health ministry said on Wednesday as ...

Almost 660 people from 15 political parties, as well as eight independents, officially submitted their candidacies on Wednesday, competing for one of parliament’s 56 seats during the May 30 elections. According to the ...

Immunity acquired from vaccinations or after an infection is not permanent and the scientific community believes there should be at least one booster coronavirus jab, a member of the team ...