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27 May, 2025
 

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President’s associate tests positive for COVID

President’s associate tests positive for COVID

Members of the administration went into isolation on Tuesday following news that a COVID-19 case was detected in the Presidential Palace...

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Man arrested after body found in buffer zone

Man arrested after body found in buffer zone

Larnaca police went on alert Tuesday morning after a dead body was found in Athienou, with preliminary reports saying nothing has been ruled out...

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Fence wars break out near buffer zone

Fence wars break out near buffer zone

Opposing camps have been making headlines recently over a controversial barbwire fence near the buffer zone, with one group cutting a piece of barbed wire and the other restoring it, with all caught on tape...

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Barn fire kills over 1000 pigs in Nicosia

Barn fire kills over 1000 pigs in Nicosia

A herd of mother pigs and about a thousand piglets burned to death on Monday night in Nicosia district, after a fire broke out in a barn along a rural road...

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Gloves are off in EU-China relations

Gloves are off in EU-China relations

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials on Monday for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, in the first such coordinated Western action against Beijing under new US President Joe Biden...

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Health Ministry announces two deaths, 410 new cases

Health Ministry announces two deaths, 410 new cases

The Health Ministry announced two coronavirus fatalities and 410 cases on Monday, raising the death toll to 245 and total cases detected so far to 42,628....

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Parents take anger over closed schools to Presidential Palace

Parents take anger over closed schools to Presidential Palace

Parents of middle school and Limassol primary school students took their frustration over schools remaining closed to the street outside the Presidential Palace on Monday....

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Cyprus holding on to first place in EU for Covid testing

Cyprus holding on to first place in EU for Covid testing

Cyprus remains first among European countries as regards the testing of its population for Covid and in fifth place in terms of its vaccination rollout....

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Germany: Turkey sending wrong human rights signals

Germany: Turkey sending wrong human rights signals

Turkey is sending the wrong messages to the European Union by withdrawing from a pact designed to counter violence against women and closing down the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned on Monday....

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Cyprus updates risk-based travel list

Cyprus updates risk-based travel list

The Health Ministry’s epidemiological surveillance unit has re-evaluated the coronavirus risk-based classification of countries after the Cabinet agreed on an action plan last month for the resumption of flights and the reopening of Cyprus airports....

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Borrell report on Turkey covers all bases

Borrell report on Turkey covers all bases

A report by European Commission Vice-President and High Representative Josep Borrell spells out the 'political and economic consequences' that Turkey will suffer should the country 'not move forward constructively in developing a genuine partnership with the EU'...

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PCR tests disprove earlier results at air base

PCR tests disprove earlier results at air base

Over two dozen staff at the Papandreou Air Base in Paphos tested negative for the coronavirus after officials said the employees had initially tested positive, highlighting ongoing debate over the reliability of rapid test results...

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Bad weather brewing behind veil of cloud

Bad weather brewing behind veil of cloud

A warm air mass is gradually giving way to a low barometer expected to bring showers, windy conditions, and possibly storms before midweek...

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MED 5 want EU to act as one on migration

MED 5 want EU to act as one on migration

The interior ministers of the five Mediterranean countries on the front line of mass migration to Europe want their European Union partners to share the burden more equitably...

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Woman fined for busting moves in Limassol

Woman fined for busting moves in Limassol

Law enforcement authorities have tracked down and fined a woman who was seen in a video dancing in a Greek tavern in Limassol against pandemic health protocols...

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Health Ministry announces 364 new cases

Health Ministry announces 364 new cases

The Health Ministry announced 364 coronavirus cases on Thursday, raising total cases detected so far to 41,475....

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Anastasiades stays focused on getting EU at Geneva table

Anastasiades stays focused on getting EU at Geneva table

President Nicos Anastasiades delved extensively into the substantive role the EU has to play at upcoming Cyprus peace processes during a teleconference convened Friday by the European Council President Charles Michel with EU leaders....

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Report shows numbers behind Limassol Covid headache

Report shows numbers behind Limassol Covid headache

The positivity rate for Covid-19 is rising in Cyprus on a weekly basis, particularly in the Limassol district where it stands at 1.3%, according to the National Surveillance Report published Friday and containing data until March 16....

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ΕC sends more than half million rapid tests to Cyprus

ΕC sends more than half million rapid tests to Cyprus

The European Commission has sent more than half a million rapid test kits to Cyprus in a bid to boost population testing on the island, it emerged on Friday....

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US supports Greece, Cyprus, Israel power initiative

US supports Greece, Cyprus, Israel power initiative

The United States is “supportive of connecting distribution grids of mainland Europe to Cyprus and Israel via the EuroAsia Interconnector,” a spokesperson for the State Department said on Thursday, after Ankara on Monday formally protested a memorandum of understanding signed last week between Israel, Greece and Cyprus for the construction of a 2,000-megawatt undersea electricity cable....

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Hotels cry foul over ban on local stays

Hotels cry foul over ban on local stays

The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises is calling on the government to terminate a ban on hotel stays by locals, saying overnight lodging for island residents should be allowed after restaurants also opened this week...

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EU frontline ministers talk migration in Athens

EU frontline ministers talk migration in Athens

Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris is in Athens this weekend where he is attending a MED5 meeting on immigration, with some of the bloc’s Mediterranean members tackling issues stemming from Brussels’ new migration proposals that divide the union...

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EY Academy of Learning & Development introduces a new Web-Based Learning initiative

EY Academy of Learning & Development introduces a new Web-Based Learning initiative

EY Cyprus is proud to announce the launch of a new Web-Based Learning (WBL) initiative, an expansion of the offerings of the EY Academy of Learning and Development...

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Man behind mansion carnival party arrested

Man behind mansion carnival party arrested

Police have tracked down and arrested the man who is believed to have rented a mansion in Paphos for a carnival party last weekend...

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Health Ministry announces 385 new cases

Health Ministry announces 385 new cases

The Health Ministry announced 385 coronavirus cases on Thursday, raising total cases detected so far to 41,111. ...

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Cyprus to resume AZ jabs Friday after EU agency gives nod

Cyprus to resume AZ jabs Friday after EU agency gives nod

The European Union’s drug regulatory agency said Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not linked to an overall increase in the risk of blood clots and that the benefits of use outweigh the risks, paving the way for European countries to resume administering the shots....

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729 lives lost on Cyprus roads between 2008-2020

729 lives lost on Cyprus roads between 2008-2020

Seven hundred and twenty nine people lost their lives in road crashes between 2008-2020, 60% of which (drivers and passengers) were not wearing a seat belt while 54% of motorcycle drivers and passengers weren’t wearing a helmet, figures released by the Cyprus police on Thursday showed....

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UK variant gaining ground in Cyprus

UK variant gaining ground in Cyprus

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou expressed concern over the spread of the British coronavirus variant in Cyprus, issuing a fresh call to the public to comply with measures in place to contain the pandemic so that "the worst scenario can be averted."...

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EU will be present in Cyprus issue negotiations, senior EU official says

EU will be present in Cyprus issue negotiations, senior EU official says

The EU will be present at the conference on Cyprus to be convened by the UN in Geneva in late April and at the formal negotiations that may follow, a senior EU official said at a press conference in Brussels ahead of the forthcoming Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) of Monday....

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Cyprus scrambles to reduce asylum backlog

Cyprus scrambles to reduce asylum backlog

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris says the government is moving forward with rejections of asylum applications under new, faster procedures to clear a system backlog, with Europe seeking a comprehensive solution and a commissioner calling on Cypriot authorities to investigate illegal pushbacks...

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