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Road safety watchdog Reaction on Tuesday asked drivers to respect motorcyclists on Tuesday, after two young motorcyclists died in the capital within 24 hours. “Unfortunately, two more young motorcyclists lost their ...

Russia on Tuesday warned the United States to ensure its warships stayed well away from Crimea “for their own good”, calling their deployment in the Black Sea a provocation designed ...

The European anti-fraud office (Olaf) is investigating the circumstances under which the government granted €1.7m in EU funds for the creation of a winery to what seems to be an ...

The government has every right to defend itself against criticism by parties about its handling of the Cyprus problem, even though it may be engaging in this a little too ...

Political parties of the House finance committee unanimously backed the amendment of regulations at Cyta that would ensure no employee could ever be made redundant. All other semi-governmental organisations are ...

The health ministry announced one death and 528 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, with a positivity rate of 0.91 per cent after 58,097 PCR and rapid tests. The death was a man, ...

Arrivals from overseas to the north will be subject to wearing electronic bracelets within their own homes to carry out their coronavirus quarantine, it was reported on Monday. The change ...

More than 80 per cent of people in Cyprus aged over 80 have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, of whom 70 per cent have received both jabs, the health ministry said on Monday ...

There are currently 225 coronavirus patients being treated at state hospitals, the highest number since the start of the pandemic more than a year ago, the spokesman of the state health ...

The vaccination portal will open for people aged 55 and 56 on Tuesday and Wednesday, as Cyprus presses ahead with offering the AstraZeneca vaccine to all age groups in line with EMA ...

The aim of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the upcoming informal meeting in Geneva is to determine whether there is common ground between the two sides, the Cyprus News Agency (...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou was given the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, making sure to clarify that he had received the AstraZeneca vaccine amid a concerted push by authorities to ease ...

From the numbers of expats waiting years for citizenships to the environmental impact of development projects, the Cyprus Mail put the new freedom of information act to the test. It ...

No new deaths and 470 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Sunday. A total of 55,096 tests were carried out, meaning the positivity rate was 0.85 per cent. The new cases bring ...

Responding to criticism levelled against the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic over the last few days, the ministry of health on Sunday said that the island was the ...

Waste in Aglandjia has been reduced by 41 per cent with scheme The nationwide pay-as-you-throw scheme is due to be announced later this month but is already running in Aglandjia municipality, ...

A slew of pro-solution groups are growing increasingly vocal as talks loom The slew of pro-solution groups cropping up over the past couple of years, and especially in the last ...

Along with hunting dogs, poodle-type dogs used to make up the majority of strays. So why have they become so rare? You may not have heard of the Cyprus poodle, ...

A five-year-old Syrian migrant boy stranded in the north by himself for 45 days was this week reunited with his parents. The boy’s 27-year-old father has lived in Cyprus for ...

Pre-Brexit, permanent residents could vote in local elections and hold office More than three months after Brexit was finalised, British permanent residents are pressing for answers from the Cyprus government ...

Promotions and appointments in the broader public sector have become something of a tradition ahead of elections, ever since the late president Spyros Kyprianou introduced the practice in the early ...

A WEEK rarely goes by without the auditor-general Odysseas, Kyproulla’s self-proclaimed Elliot Ness, featuring in the news. He is second only to Prez Nik in the publicity race, in ...

Not since the 1930s and World War II have states arrogated to themselves such wide powers impinging on human rights and fundamental freedoms as they did in 2020-21. Governments contemplating ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 446 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 49,314 PCR and rapid tests with a a positivity rate of 0.9 per cent. The deaths concerned three ...