Opposition communist AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou will step down after the party’s worst election showing in recent history, garnering 22.3% of the vote at Sunday’s election despite the government’s popularity nose-diving. He becomes the first casualty of the parliamentary election that saw AKEL lose a seat while far-right ELAM, a DIKO splinter group and the
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Cyprus is finally out of the EU’s dark red danger zone, moving into the orange category after successfully reducing its COVID 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate under the 150 cases per 100,000 benchmark. According to the Health Ministry’s latest epidemiological report, the island’s cumulative diagnosis rate fell to 130 from 218.6 per 100,000 population in the
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Despite a last-minute pitch from Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios to convince the British government that Cyprus deserved to be on its green travel list, the holiday island is stuck on amber. Upon reviewing its safe travel list, instead of adding to its green list, it shortened it while extending those in the red. In a
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People movement across the divided island resumed for the first time since crossing points were shuttered during the Covid-19 pandemic 15 months ago, the United Nations said Friday. Without fanfare, most crossings opened at 0600 local time on Friday, while the iconic Ledra Street checkpoint in the capital Nicosia started operating at 0800. After intense
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Cyprus’ improved COVID-19 data has encouraged authorities to lift some restrictions earlier than planned, including birthday parties at play centres and shortening the curfew for wedding parties from Friday. A Health Ministry announcement said people attending wedding parties need not worry about the 1 am curfew, as they will be allowed to stay out two
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Cyprus reported one death attributed to COVID-19 on Thursday, with an increase in hospitalisations to 58 and a drop in new daily infections to 53. The health ministry said that a 73 year old woman died, the second in June, raising the death toll since the pandemic started to 362. The number of patients treatment
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A US-funded training facility, the Cyprus Centre for Land, Open-seas, and Port Security (CYCLOPS), will enhance safer borders in the region when operational in mid-January 2022, officials said Thursday. During a site inspection on Thursday, Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said the training facility would become operational on 16 January 2022, with two mln euros
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Cyprus offers all age groups another chance to get vaccinated, as the online COVID-19 vaccination portal reboots in the coming days, starting with those aged 32 and under. The Health Ministry hopes to inoculate 65% of the adult population with one vaccine jab by the end of June. Cyprus is currently third in the EU
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By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM A strong sense of anticipation has gripped financial markets this week. European stocks have traded within a tight range, while US futures were ticking down Thursday afternoon as investors turn cautious ahead of Friday’s key jobs report. Given how markets remain heavily influenced by inflation expectations, the
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Any change of government in Israel will not affect the good relations with Nicosia because both countries have common objectives, said Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides. Asked if a new Prime Minister in Israel will affect Cyprus-Israeli ties that have been built on a joint energy drive, Christodoulides said deliberations are still underway with the
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