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Police in the Republic on Wednesday arrested three men for the kidnap of the two men who are suspected of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in northern Nicosia. The police announced ...

Welcoming his new cabinet on Wednesday, President Nikos Christodoulides urged his ministers, deputy ministers and commissioners to turn a blind eye to baseless criticism and work tirelessly to serve the ...

Footballers on Tuesday threatened to strike over dangerous conditions in stadia, following a meeting of the Footballers’ Association (Pasp). The meeting was attended by representatives of players from first division ...

There was no disagreement among party leaders at Monday’s meeting of the National Council, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The president had listened to the suggestions of the parties, ...

Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis exceeded the €1 million legal limit in their presidential election spending, while Disy and Elam failed to be thoroughly transparent over their funding during the campaign, ...

Nicosia on Tuesday again pressed Brussels to review the status of Syria to designate the country or parts of it as a safe zone, allowing for the repatriation there of ...

New cabinet members were appointed based on their ability to implement President Nikos Christodoulides’ pre-election pledges and not because of party allegiances, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Letymbiotis ...

Cyprus has satisfactorily dealt with nine of the 16 recommendations on tackling corruption, according to the latest Greco (Group of States against Corruption) report, published on Tuesday. The findings are detailed ...

A 52-year-old woman suspected of conning people out of over €400,000 by pretending to be a real estate agent was arrested and remanded for seven days, authorities said on Tuesday. Complaints ...

The electricity authority’s new photovoltaic park which was inaugurated in Akrotiri on Tuesday will help the island move away from power generated from fossil fuels. But, “the penetration of ...

The Cyprus Consumers Association on Monday warned of a continuous increase in the number of complaints it has received, pointing to a notable surge compared to previous years. In a ...

In the end, the cabinet reshuffle, which had dominated the news all last week and caused a lot of negative press for the president, took place earlier than anyone expected. ...

The roads being built in Akamas are not wider than originally planned, the outgoing head of the forestry department Charalambos Alexandrou said on Monday, in a swansong statement on the ...

There is “no disagreement” between President Nikos Christodoulides and political party leaders on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. Speaking after a National Council meeting held ...

President Nikos Christodoulides replaced four of his ministers on Monday in a partial reshuffle that had been widely anticipated. Effective from Wednesday, Vasilis Palmas will take over from Michalis Giorgallas ...

Traffic cameras are set to be installed at the junction that saw four members of the same family killed in a traffic accident on New Year’s Day, the transport ...

Hospitalisations of patients with Covid-19 have increased by almost in a third in the last week, Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Charilaou was speaking to CyBC radio and ...

Global energy will continue to be driven by security concerns in 2024, ahead of climate goals, as wars, conflicts and threats to supplies continue. Renewable energy systems (RES) will carry on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides requested the UN intervene on Cyprus’ behalf to stop Turkish violations in the buffer zone, it emerged on Sunday. In a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General ...

A busy couple of weeks for Israel’s legal minds It was an eventful New Year weekend for the legal community in Israel. Her judiciary managed partly to restore her ...

Covid craze makes its comeback COVID craze has made its comeback, in a lite version, for now, but the possibility of it eventually returning to its former glory cannot be ...

Culture of silence over rape, harassment and domestic violence by police officers MPs are sounding the alarm over what they describe is a boy’s club in the police force ...

The various sides of Cypriot politics issued reactions on Saturday to Friday evening’s announcement of Colombian diplomat Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar as United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy ...

The Cyprus pharmaceutical association (CPA) said on Saturday it “welcomes” the reintroduction of mandatory testing for Covid-19 to enter certain spaces. Health Minister Popi Kanari had said on Friday that “...