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The audit service said Thursday state and local authorities had violated national and EU laws in allowing the construction of a huge project linked to a former Akel MP who ...

The House plenum on Thursday convened for the last time before its resolution ahead of parliamentary elections on May 30. During this final session, the deputies will be called to discuss ...

The Council of Ministers will meet later on Thursday morning to face difficult decisions over the next steps regarding Covid measures over the Easter period following an increase in cases ...

The UN has said it hopes the parties attending the informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus in Geneva next week will attend with creativity. “I think what the Secretary-General, the aim as ...

The Audit Office on Wednesday said the company being paid to process massive quantities of used car tyres is failing to do so In a report, the Audit Office said ...

The government did the right thing to withdraw the bill amending the law on the courts which had been changed beyond recognition by the political parties. The aim of the ...

There were no deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours, as 843 new infections were reported after 53,024 tests, an overall positivity rate of 1.59 per cent, the health ministry said on Wednesday. ...

Health professionals are struggling to cope as the number of admissions of patients with coronavirus continues to surge. The daily number of Covid patients is around 280 which is very high. ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday a lockdown “is a scenario that remains on the table” should the number of daily Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations increase in the coming ...

The European Union won’t take up an extra 300 million doses of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines that it has secured as options under existing contracts, a senior ...

Efforts are focused on finding a way so that both communities on the island feel safe, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday in Athens upon his arrival at the office ...

The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine will be administered from Thursday or by Monday at the latest after it was given the green light by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...

The world over, governments are viewing the ocean as a new economic frontier By Maria Hadjimichael A consequence of the economic crisis and the realisation of the finite nature of ...

A week before the informal five-party conference in Geneva President Nicos Anastasiades has quite unexpectedly decided to talk about the minutes of his meeting in Crans-Montana with Turkey’s Foreign ...

The health ministry announced one death and a record 941 cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. A 69-year-old man died at Nicosia general hospital after being treated in the ICU unit. He ...

As Nicosia moves into the final stages of preparations ahead of the informal five-party summit in Geneva where the island’s two community leaders will meet under the UN secretary-general ...

The three high profile individuals who appeared in the al Jazeera network expose will be the next to testify before the panel investigating passports granted under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) ...

A man ambushed and shot on Monday night was killed as the result of a premeditated murder police said on Tuesday as investigations continue into the motives behind it. Thorough ...

While a few coronavirus measures may be tweaked for the Easter period, Government Spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Tuesday the government is constantly evaluating the need of introducing new measures ...

A bill improving the admittedly useless legislation on asset statements filed by state officials was referred to the new parliament on Tuesday after House ethics committee MPs failed to iron ...

Bird trapping with limesticks is on the rise this spring, after years of steady decline of the illegal activity during the season, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) reported on ...

The legality and constitutionality of the coronavirus decrees, and the restrictions stemming from them, are being challenged at the Nicosia district court. Nicos Clerides is representing three clients who have ...

Nicosia is in the final stages of preparations ahead of the informal five-party summit in Geneva next week where the island’s two community leaders will meet under the UN ...

There are high concentrations of dust in the air and vulnerable groups are urged to avoid going outside until the situation improves, the department of labour inspection said on Tuesday ...