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3781. Cyprus tightens restrictions, imposes 11pm curfew

In a national address on Wednesday night, the Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said the government was obliged to take tough decisions for stricter measures as the island was no exception to Europe’s second coronavirus wave, before the health minister stepped in to outline the new measures that come into effect on Thursday....

3782. 166 new cases as hospital patients surge

166 new coronavirus cases emerged on Wednesday after 3,529 tests were conducted, raising total known cases to 5,100...

3783. Cyprus FM expresses grave concern over Turkey

The Cyprus Foreign Minister, Nikos Christodoulides, stressed before his Council of Europe counterparts on Wednesday the need for a full implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgments, including the Interstate Case of Cyprus against Turkey, while expressing his grave concern for the escalating Turkish provocations against Cyprus....

3784. Bill introduces femicide in penal code

A new bill proposal calling for femicide to be recognized officially as a sex-based hate crime has been submitted to the House legal affairs committee, with proponents saying the term would be helpful for prosecutorial reasons while some critics say the law might be sexist...

3785. 174 cases detected, Limassol care home cluster grows

174 new coronavirus cases emerged in the Republic of Cyprus on Tuesday after 4,033 tests were conducted, raising total cases to 4,934....

3786. ‘Wanted’ man takes police to Supreme Court

A foreign national who says he was living in Denmark with his family ended up being detained in Bulgaria on a Cypriot warrant, with his lawyer saying it was issued without due diligence...

3787. Man locked up for life in Ledras murder

A foreign man who was convicted of killing a 21-year-old Indian national during a clash in downtown Nicosia last June has been sentenced to life, with others also getting prison sentences for taking part in the attacks...

3788. Authorities report 197 cases, one death

197 new coronavirus cases were detected in the Republic of Cyprus on Monday, while a 91-year-old coronavirus patient with underlying health conditions died of septic shock....

3789. Roxy’s 'Charo' takes Cyprus to ECHR

A Dominican woman, who was recognized as a sex trafficking victim after her ordeal in the capital’s Roxy strip club over a decade ago, is taking the Republic of Cyprus to the European Court of Human Rights, after the country’s Supreme Court sided with a lower court judge who threw out her lawsuit seeking damages...

3790. Four shot in separate hunting incidents

Police are investigating three separate hunting incidents of accidental shootings, where two men and a father-son duo were shot on Sunday, with the teen being injured in the forehead...

3791. Cyprus puts more measures on the table

Members of the government’s coronavirus task force were set to meet with Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday, just two days ahead of a Cabinet meeting where stricter measures are expected to be announced...

3792. Foster child’s mother back in court

A mother who lost custody of her child was arrested Sunday following a complaint that she abducted her own son from state foster care, with reports suggesting she had tried to reunite with her son previously but a judge ordered her to stay away pending an abuse trial...

3793. 166 coronavirus cases detected in Cyprus

166 new coronavirus cases were detected in the Republic of Cyprus on Friday, when 3,672 tests were carried out, raising the total to 4,217....

3794. Commission warns Cyprus over lacking anti-money laundering legislation

The European Commission on Friday sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus for failing to transpose the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) into national law....

3795. Anti-corruption measures on the way, Anastasiades says

President Nicos Anastasiades said Friday he will be announcing new measures aiming to crack down on corruption next week. ...

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3797. Cyprus removed from UK's travel corridor

The British government has taken Cyprus off the list of travel exemptions, requiring travelers flying back from the island to the UK to self isolate for two weeks...

3798. 121 coronavirus cases detected in Cyprus

121 coronavirus cases were detected in the Republic of Cyprus on Thursday, when 2,530 tests were conducted, raising total cases to 4,051....

3799. Over 40% of coronavirus cases detected in past fortnight

In the last 14 days (11-24 October), 1,374 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in Cyprus, which corresponds to 40.5% of the total cases (3,388) recorded until the October 24, according data published in the National Surveillance Report on Thursday, produced by the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit of the Ministry of Health....

3800. Foreign investors rush to meet deadline

Days before Cyprus’ Citizenship by Investment Programme is set to go offline, interior ministry officials and paralegals kicked things into high gear to handle the last batch of petitions by foreign investors before the programme ends on Sunday...

3801. Woman loses 20 grand in bitcoin scam

A woman in Limassol says she lost over €20,000 after an unknown person convinced her to invest real money in cryptocurrency...

3802. Protesters detained outside French embassy

Five protesters were arrested on Tuesday outside the French embassy in Nicosia, where dozens of Muslim residents gathered to demonstrate against France’s stance towards Islam...

3803. 181 coronavirus cases detected in Cyprus

181 new coronavirus cases were detected on Tuesday after a total of 3,589 tests, raising the number of cases identified in the Republic of Cyprus since the outbreak of the virus in March to 3,817. ...

3804. Two ministers and deputy shipping minister in isolation

Transport minster Yiannis Karousos, defence minister Charalambos Petrides and the deputy shipping minister Vasilis Demetriades all went into isolation on Tuesday after a close associate of the transport minister tested positive for the virus....

3805. 91 new coronavirus cases in Cyprus

91 new coronavirus cases were detected on Monday from among 2,285 lab tests, raising total known cases in the Republic of Cyprus to 3,636....

3806. Anti-maskers fined after Nicosia demo

A demonstration by anti-maskers held over the weekend led police scouring through video footage and other material to identify participants in violation of the recently-imposed mandatory mask rule for all outdoor areas, with two out of the 10 so far identified fined....

3807. Dendias, Lavrov discuss Cyprus in Athens meeting

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Athens on Monday, at the start of the foreign official's visit to the Greek capital....

3808. Cypriot family arrested in London murder

A murder investigation in south London led police to multiple suspects including members of a Cypriot family, arrested and charged in the death of a man whose body was found on fire last month...

3809. Gigolo murder suspect still in custody

The two suspects in the murder of a well-to-do mother of three in Limassol have been order to remain in custody, while local media say a person in Nicosia was questioned after it emerged that the murder suspect had sold stolen jewelry belonging to the victim...

3810. Attorney General calls Auditor ‘to order’

Cypriot Attorney General George Savvides issued a stern warning on Saturday, calling to order the state’s auditor general over his insistence on examining specific golden passport case files linked to a casino project on the island...