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As President Nicos Anastasiades is scheduled to address the nation on Thursday night about anti-corruption measures, opposition parties have taken shots from the sidelines. The stage is set for a ...

The lawyer of a young hacker who became the first ever Cypriot citizen to be extradited to the US and who has been found guilty of committing cyber-crimes by a ...

Dherynia municipality on Wednesday said it was looking at ways to keep the people who live in Strovilia in place and also increase the population of the area. Mayor Andros ...

The cabinet will meet later today to draw up a plan of action for the coming months for the expected gradual lifting of coronavirus restrictions. One of the most contentious ...

The scientific advisory team was unanimous in its proposal for regulating the movement of citizens through the SMS authorisation system. According to press reports, the team advised the government on ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday and 109 new infections from 10,992 tests, a positivity rate of just under one per cent. The number of deaths since the ...

Former interior minister Constantinos Petrides told an inquiry he had never been a fan of the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which ultimately overturned the excellent image Cyprus had ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by teleconference late Monday, telling him it was a reality that there were two equal and separate sides on ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday he met briefly and only once with Jho Low, a Malaysian national granted Cypriot citizenship in 2015, but that he was unaware at the time that ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris warned on Tuesday that allowing referendums on the mergers of municipalities and local communities would tank the drive to reform local government. “It will be chaos,” ...

A young hacker who became the first ever Cypriot citizen to be extradited to the US has been found guilty of committing cyber-crimes by a court in the state of ...

Aradippou mayor Evangelos Evangelides said Tuesday he was strongly opposed to any merging of his municipality with Larnaca, saying it could function perfectly well independently. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

People over the age of 88 will be able to arrange vaccinations via the vaccination portal from Wednesday morning, the government announced on Tuesday. The portal is available from 9am for ...

The British public should not book any overseas summer vacation yet, the minister responsible for the country’s COVID vaccination programme said on Tuesday, ahead of an expected announcement on ...

Police are identifying an increased number of drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol, largely due to more checks being carried out during the day. During routine traffic stops, ...

The proposed reform of local government has been dealt a deathly blow by the opposition parties Akel, Diko and Edek, which have devised a way of maintaining the status quo – ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has got the ball rolling for the liquidation of legacy Laiki Bank, more than seven years after the lender’s demise, it emerged on ...

AstraZeneca is not doing enough to try to resolve a dispute over delayed Covid-19 vaccine deliveries to the European Union, the bloc’s top health official said on Monday, as ...

Two men have died, and another 126 people have tested positive for coronavirus, the health ministry said on Monday. Neither of the two deceased, aged 69 and 60, had pre-existing conditions. Their deaths, ...

Lawmakers on Monday wrapped up discussion of three government bills designed to overhaul local government, but not without first inserting an amendment which – from the government’s standpoint – could unravel ...

The health ministry is optimistic regarding the possibility of administering a gout drug called Colchicine as part of its protocol for treating Covid-19 patients, according to the head of the ...

The advisory committee on coronavirus on Monday briefed President Nicos Anastasiades about the epidemiological outlook and submitted their proposals for the gradual lifting of restrictions. Decisions, however, will be taken ...

The second batch of 1,170 Pfizer vaccine doses was delivered to the Turkish Cypriot community on Monday, through the Ayios Dhometios crossing. The delivery was arranged through the bicommunal Technical Committee ...

An epidemiological burden is expected in the next six to 12 weeks in many countries, including Cyprus, because of the aggressive spread of the new Covid-19 variant first detected in the ...