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Total government employment in January rose by 440 persons or 0.8 per cent year on year due to the hiring of temporary employees, data released by the Statistical Service of Cyprus (Cystat) ...

The place and date of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus, which the UN Secretary-General intends to convene, remain uncertain, while Nicosia fears that Ankara is playing “games” with the ...

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to arrive to Nicosia on Monday for a working visit. According to a press release by the Presidency, Mitsotakis will have a tête-à...

Cyprus enters on Monday the second phase of covid measures relaxations with the reopening of schools for elementary students and third graders of high schools as well as of all ...

Police reported 210 citizens and the owners of four establishments after carrying out a total of 12,773 checks islandwide for violating Covid-19 measures. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus News Agency that ...

By Apostolis Zoupaniotis, New York The United States supports a Cypriot-led comprehensive settlement to reunify the island as a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF), which would benefit all Cypriots as well ...

Deputy Shipping Minister Vassilis Demetriades said on Sunday he would begin contacts to reassess the situation after a tender for a Cyprus-Greece ferry link failed to attract any bidders. The ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched its 2021 EU-wide stress test, publishing the scenarios for the exercise, including those concerning Cyprus. Although Cypriot banks are not included in the sample, ...

The foreign ministry has welcomed the unanimous renewal by the UN Security Council of the mandate for the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus until July 31, 2021. According to a news release, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday his mandate from the UN Security Council refers explicitly to a bizonal, bicommunal solution in Cyprus, but this was not an impediment to ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday observed a one-minute silence in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and condemned the atrocities committed during World War II. House Speaker Adamos ...

By Apostolis Zoupaniotis, New York The UN Security Council (UNSC) members agreed on the text of the draft resolution for the renewal of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp), ...

A joint Search and Rescue Exercise under the name “SALAMIS – 02/21” was conducted on Monday between Cyprus and Greece. The exercise took place within the sea area of responsibility for search ...

High Representative Josep Borrell on Monday described the exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey, which started today, as an important step towards EU-Turkey rapprochement. Speaking after the end of the ...

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides will travel to Brussels on Sunday to take part in the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Monday which will discuss relations with the US following the ...

US Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken said if his appointment is confirmed by the US Senate, he will work to continue deepening ties between the United States, Greece and ...

President Nicos Anastasiades pointed out the problems the island is faced with because of the slow rollout of Covid vaccines, mainly due to the delays in the production of the ...

EU High Representative on foreign policy Josep Borrell expressed the hope on Tuesday that his upcoming meeting with Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will last longer than their previous ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has told the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell that the EU should participate in the informal meeting on Cyprus, set to be convened by the UN ...

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides will pay consecutive working visits to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, it was announced on Sunday. According to a press release issued by the ...

Eighty-four individuals and two businesses were booked during the past 24 hours for violations of the measures against the spread of coronavirus, police said on Sunday. In total 5,932 checks were carried ...

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and Foreign Minister, Nicos Christodoulides had a phone conversation on Friday and agreed that the strength of the US-Cyprus relations were at an all-time ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) said their results in 2020 were very disappointing, mainly due to problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the committee’s Greek Cypriot member ...

Banks need to find a new business model to adapt to the new era, Central Bank Governor Constantinos Herodotou has said. Herodotou, who was addressing the online 8th Banking Forum &...