Elias Hazou

The Avakoum monastery made cash payments of over €100,000 for the purchase of cement, while a series of other transactions involving the cloister lacked any invoices, Nicosia criminal court heard on ...

The European Commission should ‘think outside of the box’ and come up with ways to bring down the cost of living for ordinary Europeans amid the ongoing energy crunch, Finance ...

Affordable housing, rural development and upgraded services are the focus of government policy, the interior minister said on Monday presenting his ministry’s budget for 2027. Speaking in parliament, Constantinos Ioannou ...

Still haunted by their decision some 20 years ago to take out a mortgage denominated in Swiss francs, a distressed couple from Britain are on the verge of losing their Limassol ...

The trial of furloughed Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, accused of raping a woman, continued on Thursday with the testimony of a police lieutenant. The lieutenant, a witness for the prosecution, ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos spoke on the phone with his Iranian counterpart on Thursday, discussing regional developments amid the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf. “Had a telephone conversation with ...

Prosecutors and defence lawyers got into a heated argument on Thursday over the evidence being presented in court, in the trial concerning the alleged theft of thousands of documents from ...

The House on Thursday passed a law mandating judicial review for cases where non-EU nationals are to be held in detention for a period exceeding six months. Up until now, ...

The persons involved in tracking the case of Stylianos Constantinou, the teenager who took his own life, had tried to “save” the boy, but he could not be saved, a ...

The nationwide police operation ‘Plegma’, where authorities on Thursday nabbed 26 people suspected of involvement in a criminal enterprise, is one of the biggest operations against organised crime, the officer in ...

Social workers are swamped, having to deal with workloads that far exceed normal standards, often leading them to fall behind urgent cases like domestic violence, MPs heard on Tuesday. At ...

Petrol stations would have to issue customers sales receipts detailing all the taxes and duties under a legislative proposal discussed by MPs on Tuesday. Tabled by Disy MP Nikos Georgiou, ...

Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday allowed prosecutors to add one more person to their list of witnesses in the trial concerning the theft of thousands of documents from the central ...

Farmers are feeling the pressure from rising production costs and unreliable water supply, MPs said on Monday as the government insisted it’s doing everything it can to support the ...

MPs on Monday aired their discontent at a bill purporting to tighten up mandatory wealth declarations, saying the relevant law as it stands is robust enough. The matter came up ...

Lawmakers, officials and experts on Monday hailed the start of a discussion of the draft declaration on Digital Human Rights, seeing it as an essential guide for safeguards in the ...

The defence in the trial of Georgios Christodoulou Zavrantonas – accused of possessing 15kg of cocaine with intent to sell – wrapped up presenting its case on Monday, with the court setting ...

A 31-year-old man was in a critical condition on Thursday after falling from a height of about five metres while working at a factory in Larnaca. The man was rushed ...

The supreme court on Thursday ruled against an application for a re-trial filed by convicted lifer Theodoros (Doros) Theofanous. Theofanous, alias ‘the hairdresser’, filed a motion for a re-trial, arguing ...

A gulf separates employers’ organisations and trade unions on the issue of provident funds and how they should fit into pension reform as a whole, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said ...

Lawmakers on Thursday got pushback from the government on a proposal to de-criminalise the publishing or reproduction of political content on the eve and on the day of elections. As ...

The House on Thursday gave the nod to the 2027 budget of the Solidarity Fund, set up to reimburse people whose savings were wiped out in the 2013 financial meltdown. The budget ...

The Holy Synod on Tuesday confirmed the previously reported existence of a letter circulated to priests urging them to abandon the Church of Cyprus and found a new church. Archimandrite ...

Trade between China and Cyprus grew to $1.44 billion (€1.29 billion) during 2025, while the future holds even greater prospects for economic cooperation, attendees at a forum heard on Tuesday. Speaking at a ...