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Cypriot startup Revolutionary Labs recently held a special ceremony to commemorate the successful conclusion of the mediSKIN entrepreneurship innovation project. According to an announcement, the event, which was held at ...

Three men believed to have been the captains of boats carrying 33 migrants, were remanded in Famagusta district court for seven days on Friday. Police said it had secured testimonies that ...

An orange alert for extremely high temperatures has been issued on Friday by the meteorological service, while the forestry department has also issued a red alert for fire risk. The ...

During his speech at The Economist business conference on the Eastern Mediterranean held in New York this week, Constantinos Herodotou, the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), emphasised ...

The church of Agios Georgios in the Karpasia area, has undergone conservation works, as announced by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. The event was attended by members of the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law that fast-tracks ‘strategic investments’ and regulates licensing procedures and timeframes, but some MPs decried the discretionary powers given to the minister and senior ...

Despite complaining about wasteful expenditures, MPs on Thursday gave the nod to the government’s second supplementary budget for fiscal year 2023. The €361 million budget bill passed with 45 votes for, and ...

In a just-published report on Thursday, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) said that persons being returned ...

Firefighters rushed to battle a blaze that broke out at around 1.40pm in the courtyard of a Polemidia residence in Limassol. The courtyard was shared with three other residences. Thankfully, ...

An amendment to the Refugee law drafted by Elam, which will mean that all asylum seekers who refuse to consent to medical examinations to determine their age will be presumed ...

As part of an ongoing series of workshops at Goethe-Institut, KENO Publications and Atlantis Culture present one more morning of poetry. Under the Performance Poetry 101 workshops, July 15’s session will ...

After a fiery debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday, showcasing vastly divergent ideas about the relationship between debtors and banks, the plenum voted down two bills which the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has said his biggest priority is to make every possible effort to break the current Cyprus problem deadlock and restart a “structured and results-oriented dialogue”. He said ...

A 32-year-old Cypriot man who was travelling in Greece, died as a result of his brain bleed, it emerged on Thursday. The man was in Thessaloniki with friends and was ...

Two men have been arrested after a donkey was run over twice in the north in the early hours of Thursday morning. According to the Turkish Cypriot police, 31-year-old Emrah ...

The British Sovereign Base Areas Administration (SBA) has announced its intention to construct a new passenger handling facility at its RAF Akrotiri air base. The facility will cost £66 million (€77.2 million) ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) announced on Thursday that measures have been taken to reduce waiting times for the inspection of solar panels to three weeks. Applications for the ...

The party town of Ayia Napa is also home a museum on the influence of the sea on Cyprus history and culture finds PAUL LAMBIS Cyprus is a sea lover’...

The Holy Synod decided on Thursday to welcome back to the church controversial theologian Andreas Pitsillides, who had been excommunicated in 2015 over differing views with the church, then led by ...

Applications for the new mortgage to rent scheme will be accepted starting October, the finance ministry said on Thursday, a day after the scheme was given the nod of approval ...

With the Cleon heatwave hitting Cyprus from Thursday, the labour inspection department sought to remind employers of their safety obligations in hot weather. Temperatures are set to rise into the 40...

The small-scale special operations exercise TAMS ‘ZEUS – 2023’ took place between July 4 and 6 with the participation of the national guard and the British armed forces. According to a statement by the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is set to speak with senior EU member state leaders on Thursday for a briefing on their talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Government spokesman Konstantinos ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Thursday welcomed the UN security council’s commitment to a sustainable and just solution to the Cyprus problem, along with its move to support appointing ...