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Wednesday will be mainly sunny in most areas with a chance of isolated afternoon rains, mainly in the mountains and in the south. Temperatures will rise to 25C inland and ...

What they are, why we should care and what we can do about the problems they cause The term invasive alien species (IAS) is used to describe organisms that are ...

Construction company Aktor (formerly Intrakat) is now seeking over €35 million in damages through the courts after the public works department terminated the contract with regarding the Paphos-Polis road project, according ...

The energy regulator said on Tuesday it will review data purporting to show how the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) could “trim the fat” and cut costs by up to 15 ...

A bill discussed at the House labour committee on Tuesday would change pensions given to widowers and see them brought in line with those given to widows. It was submitted ...

The town planning department on Tuesday signed a contract for the demolition of two apartment buildings in the government housing settlement of Platy in Aglandja, Nicosia, as part of the ...

To mark 180 years of service to the people of Larnaca, the Order of St Joseph of the Apparition is presenting a documentary highlighting its contribution to education in multilingualism and ...

MPs on Tuesday heard that thousands of cars installed with faulty airbags could make for a “ticking time bomb” while one former official called for such vehicles to be temporarily ...

A UK Cypriot woman has been stabbed to death in her London home as an NHS carer has been arrested on suspicion of killing her. Efthyia Constantinou, 62, hired Zaneta Peto, 55 ...

To coincide with the week of the German language, the technical and vocational school in Larnaca on Tuesday offered a German breakfast. The event was attended by Education Minister Athena ...

One in three people in Cyprus smoke, multinational tobacco company Philip Morris said on Tuesday presenting the results of its latest survey. It added that most of these smokers are ...

Cyprus Public Transport announced on Tuesday it has extended the hours of operation of the Pame express route from GSP into Nicosia. It has added to new times, at 7pm ...

After an almost two-year delay, the government announced on Tuesday the termination of an €8 million contract for the Liopetri River and fishing shelter project. Despite 22 months of extensions, progress on ...

Addressing the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday called for coordinated international action to tackle climate change. He emphasised that the need to urgently address ...

Six bus stops in the village of Athienou have been decorated with local embroidery designs, it was announced on Tuesday. Athienou municipality and the Larnaca tourism development company said the ...

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached just over €3.6 billion at the end of 2023, the north’s statistics institute reported on Tuesday. That figure corresponds to a growth of 7.3 ...

Cyprus had the fourth largest consumption of plastic bags in the EU in 2022, according to data on lightweight plastic carrier bags (LPCBs) published by Eurostat on Tuesday. The figures reveal ...

Cypriot authorities are “unable to respond and prevent any environmental disasters”, non-governmental organisation Terra Cypria said on Tuesday. The organisation was responding to confirmation from the environment department the previous ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday promised that the highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will be ready within the next three years, as local residents questioned the viability of ...

A six-year jail term for a child rape conviction was “manifestly inadequate” the Supreme Court ruled as it moved to increase the jail time to nine years, it emerged on ...

The FIBA EuroBasket trophy has arrived on the island ahead of the upcoming match between Cyprus and France on November 21. The trophy will be on the island for ten days. ...

The case against the 15-year-old boy who stands accused of having edited into existence explicit images of teachers and pupils at the school he attends had his latest court hearing ...

Trade unions Sek, Peo, and Deok expressed their dissatisfaction on Tuesday over what they called an “unfortunate intervention” by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou into the unresolved labour dispute in the ...

“All parties” have given their consent for an enlarged meeting to be held on the Cyprus problem, according to reports on Monday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that a “brief ...