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A two-state solution could never be Disy’s choice, the ruling party’s leader Averof Neophytou said on Monday in an apparent criticism of his deputy leader’s comments that ...

The first doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to arrive in Cyprus this week, by Wednesday at the latest, the health ministry said on Monday afternoon. It was not ...

Leaders of both communities met with UN secretary-general’s special envoy, Jane Holl Lute, on Monday, laying the groundwork for a possible informal five-party meeting. President Nicos Anastasiades conveyed to ...

Relations between the government and auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are deteriorating, President Nicos Anastasiades has said, accusing the official of allowing himself to be ‘weaponised’ by the opposition. In the second ...

Citing measures introduced to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the transport ministry said on Monday that it was postponing the start of the transitional period for a new regime governing flight ...

A significant reduction in the number of coronavirus cases will only be observed in the third week of the lockdown, according to Petros Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Virology at ...

Preparations are underway to set aside beds for the treatment of coronavirus patients at Paphos general hospital, state health services organisation Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Once Larnaca ...

Peyia is mulling what steps to take after losing a court case to block the development of a hillside above the Paphos town. The local municipality had challenged the government’...

The health ministry announced one death and 339 new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19 on Sunday from both PCR and rapid testing totalling 8,778. The death concerned a 75-year-old man ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had put out feelers to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of procuring vaccines from Tel Aviv. In an interview with ...

Controversy may well always dog the Nicosia square project, but Nicosians can now sigh with relief that bar a few finishing touches, it is finally complete Eleftheria square in Nicosia ...

Business organisations on Sunday issued a “desperate plea” in a letter to the president to increase the number of people allowed to have a physical presence at work to 25 per ...

Disy’s deputy chairman has some explaining to do over his recent opposition to a federation An article written by Harris Georgiades, Disy’s deputy chairman, entitled ‘The new realism’ ...

By Les Manison The state budget is the main instrument for allocating resources geared to meet the government’s policy objectives and reforms. And with the devastating impact of the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades in an interview published on Sunday rejected opposition allegations of an explosion of corruption during his terms in office but did concede there had been some irregularities ...

In the second half of 2019 Akis and Jackie Shokkos were running a successful business in Larnaca, hoping they would soon be able to repay the bank loan they took out ...

The health ministry announced the death of six more people from Covid on Saturday and 337 new infections from 11,521 tests. The positivity rate was 2.93 per cent, the ministry said. The number ...

The health ministry said on Saturday it has ordered 400,000 additional rapid antigen tests and announced the start of tests in industrial areas in all districts to cover businesses that will ...

The government on Saturday announced additional support schemes for businesses and the self-employed affected by the latest Covid measures, including grants, payroll subsidies, loan repayment suspension, rent holidays and tax ...

While UN secretary general Antonio Guterres intends to invite all sides to a five-plus-one conference to explore if common ground exists to negotiate a solution to the Cyprus problem, in ...

Russian companies have been approaching the government trying to promote their cloud seeding systems to increase the chances of rain, it emerged on Friday. This piece of information was given ...

In an article published last Sunday in Kathimerini, the deputy leader of Disy and former finance minister Harris Georgiades argued that a federal settlement was no longer attainable. What was ...

Turkey, Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean With the clock ticking down to Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, a host of regional countries have ...

The health services on Friday announced one death from Covid and 466 new cases. The cases include 216 people found positive from rapid tests and the remainder from PCR. According to a ...