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Following a request by the Armenian and Greek Pontian communities of Paphos, the municipal council has renamed Talaat Pasha street, which recognises the man widely regarded as the principal architect ...

The Anastasiades government’s tendency to shoot itself in the foot, would suggest that very little thought is put into some of its decisions. The latest row, over the increased ...

Movement restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic have limited contacts across the Green Line and deepened estrangement between two communities, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said in his latest report ...

One person died and 164 have tested positive for coronavirus after 8,366 tests, a positivity rate of 1.96 per cent, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The death of an 81-year-old man with ...

Cyprus hopes to tap a new niche market for tourists with luxury camping, or glamping, for which legislation is being drafted, deputy tourism minister Savvas Perdios said on Tuesday after ...

The coronavirus advisory committee will meet on Tuesday evening to lay down a framework for the potential relaxation of measures, committee member Maria Koliou said on Tuesday morning. The committee ...

After Edek, the Solidarity party on Tuesday threatened to throw a spanner in the state budget, setting conditions in return for their vote on Thursday. Party head Eleni Theocharous said ...

Major flaws in the citizenship-by- investment (CBI) programme’s procedures were noticed in 2017 by then interior minister Constantinos Petrides who started drafting a code of ethics that would strengthen them, ...

The road transport department announced on Tuesday the rules concerning the importation of vehicles from the UK following its EU exit. According to the department, an M1 category vehicle – passenger ...

The audit service said it will be probing a decision to raise the remuneration of a four-member panel investigating the citizenship by investment programme from €3,500 each for three months for ...

Amid a scramble for a much-coveted Covid-19 vaccine among the island’s elderly population, the health ministry on Tuesday announced changes to its vaccination portal to prioritise those over 90. The ...

The committee of inquiry into the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme will on Tuesday be holding its first public hearing, featuring former Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, to be followed by Archbishop Chrysostomos ...

Cheap housing in the old part of Nicosia has for years attracted low earners, mainly foreign workers. Several incentive schemes to attract young families and revitalise this historic centre of ...

Five deaths and 162 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Monday, raising the total number of Covid deaths since the outbreak to 175. The health ministry said 199 people were in ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Monday warned that Cyprus could risk losing out on hundreds of millions in EU grants unless it reforms local government along certain parameters. Nouris informed ...

The death of the youngest victim from the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing attack – British Cypriot, Saffie Rose Roussos – could have been prevented, it was reported on Monday. Saffie, aged only eight, ...

Cyprus saw its highest number of Covid-19 hospitalisations since the outbreak earlier on Monday, while more admissions are expected in the upcoming days, the spokesperson of the state health services ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday he had a productive meeting at the presidential palace where he discussed his party’s conditions for backing the revised state budget for 2021 ...

Over 50 per cent of people over 80 have either received their first Covid-19 vaccine or are scheduled to receive it, senior health official Olga Kalakouta said on Monday. According to Kalakouta, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday received the second dose of a Covid vaccine, some three weeks after the first jab. After spending the mandatory 15 minutes at Latsia health centre, where ...

The roads leading to Troodos are open only for vehicles with snow chains or four-wheel drives due to frost, while more snow is expected to fall during the day. Roads ...

Lost Vegas is teaming up with life-long British prisoner to raise funds for mental health charity An Ayia Napa-based band that stormed the iTunes charts in the UK last year, ...

Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival in Moscow on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last ...

Three deaths and 157 coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. The deaths concern two men, aged 67 and 89, and a woman, 83, all with underlying conditions. Their cause of ...