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A police patrol car was destroyed by fire in Limassol on Saturday night when officers had a number of run-ins with people trying to set bonfires in various areas. Paphos ...

Renowned Cypriot poet and playwright Michalis Pashiardis has died at the age of 80. Pashiardis was born in Tseri in 1941 and completed high school at the Pancyprian high school in Nicosia. ...

EVERYONE has been wondering how and why the government decided to impose a lockdown for two weeks starting last Monday, despite giving assurances before the announcement that there would not ...

Orthodox Christians flocked to Jerusalem‘s Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday to celebrate the Holy Fire ceremony, gathering in far greater numbers than last year because coronavirus restrictions ...

Turkish police detained 212 demonstrators after scuffles broke out at May Day marches on Saturday amid a coronavirus-related curfew, according to the Istanbul governor’s office and Reuters witnesses. Riot police ...

The vaccination portal for people aged 61-70 will open on Saturday at 3pm until Sunday 8pm, the health ministry announced. These appointments will be offered the AstraZeneca vaccine with the ...

Akel general secretary Andros Kyprianou pledged to continue defending the rights of the working people who are the backbone of the economy and producers of wealth, in a speech on ...

A Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson has essentially dismissed a report that during this week’s informal talks in Geneva on the Cyprus settlement the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic ...

Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those ...

A little over a year ago, President Anastasiades had defended the strict lockdown over Easter, by telling us it was the way to ensure we could celebrate Easter properly in 2021. ...

A single dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, except in people who have already been infected with ...

The European Union aims to introduce a central system in June to record citizens’ COVID-19 vaccines, tests and recovery to help them travel across the 27-nation bloc and open up ...

The health ministry has issued the testing sites for Saturday as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Limassol (16 units) Agios Ioannis Eleimon Church, Limassol 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. ‘...

The vaccination portal for those aged 64-70 will open on Friday from 8pm and will be available for 24 hours. The ministry of health announced on Friday that it was decided ...

A very small number of mainly frail, elderly COVID-19 patients are being hospitalised and dying even after having a first dose of Pfizer’s or AstraZeneca’s vaccines, but this ...

India has recorded the world’s sharpest spike in coronavirus infections this month, with political and financial capitals New Delhi and Mumbai running out of hospital beds, oxygen and medicines. ...

The body of a 65-year-old amateur fisherman was found floating in the sea near Liopetri, Famagusta police said on Friday. Police said the body was spotted by a passerby around 11.30...

Population in Cyprus will grow by 10 to 20 per cent until 2050, Eurostat estimates published on Friday show. The current population is 875,899 according to Eurostat and the World Bank. According to other ...

Russia said Thursday it supported the internationally acknowledged basis for a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution in Cyprus and reform of the guarantees system, one of the most thorny issues of ...

Love him or hate him, it’s hard to accuse Nigel Farage of being boring or predictable – and Britain’s Brexit champion has blindsided his critics once again. Fresh from ...

“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera,” once said famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, “they are made with the eye, heart and head.” Indeed, there are ...

Cyprus was 12th among the top choices by groups of adults, and 12th among the best picks for family travel, according to a survey of 5,000 consumers using the metasearch site ...

Cyprus had by April 26 taken delivery of 436,040 doses of Covid-19 vaccines the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday citing a document distributed in the committee of permanent representatives (COREPER). It ...

The special parliamentary committee on the source of funds of state officials has always adhered to the relevant legislation, as it stands, and cannot be accused of a cover-up, House ...