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Cyprus’ pharmacists on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the absurd opening hours, which forces all pharmacies to close between 1.30pm and 3pm every day except on Wednesdays and ...

When US President Donald Trump, the most ardent supporter of Israel in its war on Hamas, openly questions the narrative about the famine in Gaza being promoted by Israeli Prime ...

The general consensus is that the US-EU trade deal agreed on Sunday by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was a triumph for US, ...

There have been many calls from several quarters for the resignations of those responsible for the perceived failure of last week’s firefighting operations. These calls did not always focus ...

The government has been vilified for the perceived failure to contain the wildfire that broke out in Malia village around lunchtime on Wednesday and spread in the hills north of ...

Good results in the Pancyprian exams are not necessary for all the places available at the two public universities. There are departments at these public universities that take students who ...

We doubt there is any political party or individual deputy unaware of the article in the constitution, preventing the passing of bills that would lead to unbudgeted state spending. It ...

Tax revenue must be steadily rising, and the government has more money to spend than it had budgeted. There can be no other explanation for the bizarre decision to offer ...

General secretary of Sek union federation Andreas Matsas had an article published in Monday’s Politis, in which he demonstrated his role as the chief salesman of the automatic price ...

The informal five plus one conference in New York, as everyone expected, came to nothing. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not even get the two leaders to agree on the ...

It is a positive development that Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, has decided to revisit the botched reform of local government, which resulted from years of chopping and changing the plans ...

After a brief lull, the controversy surrounding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project, which will connect the power grids of Greece and Cyprus with undersea cable, has resurfaced, with the ...

The report of the committee investigating the criminal failure of the authorities to protect drivers of cars with the potentially lethal Takata airbags was released on Tuesday. It highlighted the ...

Last Friday it was reported that President Nikos Christodoulides had paid an unscheduled visit, accompanied by the chief of police, to the offices of the Larnaca police command to discuss ...

Every July we witness the same thing. On the last Thursday before the summer recess, the House plenum sits for hours and passes dozens of bills. Last Thursday, for example, ...

July has arrived and in three days the second, so-called ‘informal five plus one’ conference under the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be held in New York. The venue is ...

After months of meetings, discussions and haggling, the House voted through legislation that would supposedly rationalise the issue of multiple pensions which deputies had made several unsuccessful attempts to tackle ...

The release of the European Commission’s 2025 rule of law report could not have been timed better. It was published a few days after the ECtHR’s ruling about a ...

The Vassiliko gas terminal fiasco is not over by any stretch of the imagination. It is set to play and play as deputies were informed on Tuesday. A representative of ...

Our politicians come up with many silly ideas and Marinos Sizopoulos’ bill that would allow members of the National Guard to stand for election to public posts falls in this ...

Last week’s damning decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the appalling handling by deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides of a rape complaint sparked renewed calls for ...

A demonstration took place outside Parliament on Thursday, co-signed by 35 groups ranging from Far Right Watch to Save Akamas to Queer Collective. This was the second protest in two weeks ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou managed to incur the wrath of the political establishment once again by visiting the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at his new ‘presidential’ office for an interview. ...

We did not think President Nikos Christodoulides could top his most recent meaningless statement so soon after the last one but his intent to invite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...