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Cyprus is among the top seven EU countries in the recycling of packaging, having reached 70 per cent recycling, while the target for 2025 is 65 per cent, Green Dot announced on Monday. ...

To date, the government has revoked the Cypriot passports of at least 86 foreign nationals who had obtained citizenship via the now-defunct investment programme, news reports said on Monday. Media picked ...

Elpis app, to help victims of domestic violence contact the police off the offenders’ radar, will be up and running in the first half of 2025, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

The government will be continuously evaluating local self-government reform to improve everyday life for the public, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday while attending the 44th annual general assembly of ...

After the sudden drop in temperatures on Sunday, the meteorological service announced that cold weather would continue well into next month, with below average temperatures expected to last till December 20. ...

The municipality of Ayia Napa has installed ATM machines, taking in consideration the difficulties that residents in Liopetri, Augorou and Ahna face in accessing basic financial services, including ATMs.The ...

Members of the House of the Elders outlined the problems senior citizens are facing, demanding they be solved immediately, while officials listened and assured the elderly that their quality of ...

Cyprus’ commercial fleet has grown by an impressive 14 per cent over the last year, while the shipping industry now accounts for 7 per cent of gross domestic product, MPs heard on ...

Around 90 deputy mayors are getting paid on the taxpayer’s dime even though they have no official duties, the interior minister acknowledged in parliament on Monday. Constantinos Ioannou was at ...

Nicosia will host on November 27 the second intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece, as well as the Cyprus-Greece-Jordan trilateral summit. According to a presidency statement, the Greece-Cyprus summit will take ...

State hospital doctors will go ahead with their planned 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday after a last-ditch meeting with the state health services organisation (Okypy) ended in impasse on ...

A new case of online fraud and extortion of cryptocurrencies, worth $110,000, is being investigated by Limassol police, following a complaint by a 26-year-old. Police said on Monday that the 26-year-old ...

Law Office senior attorney Alexia Kalispera is the first Cypriot to be elected to the bureau of the group of states against corruption (Greco) – the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption ...

A food collection campaign for needy people in Limassol will start on December 9. Limassol municipality announced on Monday that the food collection campaign is intended for the beneficiaries of the ...

In the middle of No Man’s Land, there stands a lonely fig tree. Each summer, its fruit ripens. But nobody comes to share it; years of fear and division ...

Out of sheer curiosity I asked our AI Overlords (blessed be thy Motherboard) through their official spokes-tool ChatGPT to write a film treatment about an MCU movie based in Cyprus. ...

Local wine Maratheftiko is celebrated on December 1, and this year an event in Paphos will bring together 26 wineries that produce it to celebrate. Maratheftiko is an ancient red variety, only ...

More than one third of women from Cyprus who took part in a European survey said they had experienced physical violence, sexual violence or the threat of it during their ...

Financial repercussions from the ongoing concrete workers’ strike are growing exponentially while the shortage of material has far-reaching and unforeseen effects, the director general of the Cyprus chamber of commerce (...

A debate on the Cyprus issue – coinciding with the condemnation of the 41st anniversary of the universal declaration of independence in the north – will be included in the Plenary Session ...

The Green party on Monday condemned the Limassol mayor’s participation in a conference alleged to promote Zionism. The party accused Mayor Yiannis Armeftis of taking part in the event ...

By Richard Boxall Sunday’s final of the 2024 BAOFinancial Autumn T20 Cup presented by HurryCurry will be contested by MSN Punjab Lions and Markhor after both came through their semi-finals ...

Thirty kilos of cocaine was found by police in a container in Larnaca, the force announced on Monday. Officers of the police drugs branch Ykan were searching the container after ...

Paphos police were on Monday looking for a man suspected of counterfeiting money. The suspect, aged 41, is wanted, while a 43-year-old is already in custody for the case, according to ...