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President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday that civil servants must “meet the expectations of society” as he received the civil service commission’s annual report at the presidential palace. Christodoulides ...

Eleven organisations, including Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) and the Cyprus Peace Council, said on Friday that Cyprus should not host the Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv’s EuroLeague home games, which ...

Cyprus hospitality sector sees September occupancy surpass 80 per cent Restaurants and bars across Cyprus recorded occupancy rates of more than 80 per cent in September, with the head of the Cyprus ...

Six vultures have died and another has been seriously injured in incidents involving electricity poles in the Korfi area, with the Game and Fauna Service warning that the risks had ...

Cyprus has reduced migration flows by 90 per cent, Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Friday, describing migration management as a continuous balancing act between protecting human rights and safeguarding ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday warned against “leaking”, “distortions”, and “manipulations”, following media reports that he had accepted, and then subsequently rejected, a proposal to repopulate Varosha with ...

The Environmental Movement on Friday called for an immediate halt to environmentally damaging projects in Akamas, demanding accountability from those responsible and stronger protection for the peninsula. “The Audit Office’...

Cyprus’ aging population and declining birth rate is a “a national responsibility” which must be addressed, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Friday. Speaking at a health conference in Nicosia, ...

Always up for a Saturday morning brunch, we spotted a new place on social media that looked rather good. Lavita is in Larnaca’s old town, tucked away down a ...

The deadline for expressions of interest in taking on the stalled construction project of a natural gas liquefaction terminal at Vasiliko passed on Friday, with Energy Minister Michael Damianos saying ...

A former minister in President Nikos Christodoulides’ government could face criminal prosecution after allegedly failing to declare €2.4 million in assets in declarations submitted to parliament in 2023 and 2026, according to a ...

Private hospitals have called for fair and adequate compensation under the national health scheme (Gesy) and urgent measures to address the continuing shortage of nursing staff, warning that both issues ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project is “no longer merely a Greek and Cypriot project” but a “European project”, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, of the cable which, ...

Cyprus police chief Themistos Arnaoutis on Friday presented a new modernisation programme aimed at transforming the force into a more efficient, technologically advanced and responsive organisation by 2030. The programme, titled ‘...

The black box aboard the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia had been turned off two days prior to its sinking, the Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia district court heard ...

Fuel costs continue to weigh on Cypriot motorists, with diesel prices reaching €2.126 per litre at the most expensive pump in the country and petrol prices remaining on an upward trend ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Friday called for greater flexibility in EU fiscal rules to allow member states to increase spending and support households and businesses struggling with inflation and ...

Trips lasting at least one night by Cyprus residents rose by 13.3 per cent in 2025, reaching 3.82 million in total, as travel continued to increase across the European Union, according to figures ...

A third person, aged 25, was arrested on Thursday for extracting and illegally using credit card details. The man was arrested on a pending warrant after he was seen driving his ...

On the final competition day of the World Apnea 2026 Depth World Championships in Limassol, Alexey Molchanov descended to 137 metres, setting a new AIDA World Record and becoming the first human ...

A 47-year-old man wanted in connection with an attempted murder in Limassol surrendered the  police on Friday morning and was arrested. The man was taken into custody in connection with ...

Five people were arrested overnight during the police’s regular overnight operations, the force said on Friday. Officers stopped and checked 282 drivers and 68 passengers, while also inspecting 43 premises, resulting in ...

A 27-year-old woman was injured in a road traffic accident which was allegedly caused by a drunk driver on Limassol’s Spyros Kyprianou Avenue on Friday.  According to the police, ...

Customs agents confiscated 215 cartons of heated cigarettes, 101 cartons of cigarettes and 68 packages of tobacco, upon which no tax had been paid, during an operation in Larnaca on Thursday evening. Acting ...