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A difficult summer is expected due to the dry winter, fire services’ spokesman, Andreas Kettis said on Saturday. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) Kettis also said ...

Complaints to the financial ombudsman’s office rose by 20 per cent last year to 1,121, Financial Commissioner Valentina Georgiadou said on Friday. The office is the single body for out-of-court resolution ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli announced on Friday he will sue the north’s animal producers’ and breeders’ union chairman Mustafa Naimogullari over what he described as “slander” ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Friday addressed the graduation ceremony for the new frogmen of the National Guard at the ‘Evangelos Florakis’ naval base. Speaking to the graduates, Palmas acknowledged ...

Social workers announced on Friday they had indefinitely suspended their on-call service. The service will not be resumed until every social worker who has been seconded from the social welfare ...

The United Nations has resumed the transfer of humanitarian aid arriving by sea at the temporary jetty off the coast of Gaza, it emerged on Friday. Deliveries had been halted ...

Supermarkets that mislead the public over special offers should be named and shamed, the Cyprus Consumers Association said on Friday. President of the association Marios Drousiotis said they were asking ...

The number of irregular migrant arrivals has significantly decreased following the suspension of asylum applications for Syrian nationals, according to a Philenews report. Despite Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s call ...

All relevant state services are ready to tackle wildfires throughout the upcoming summer season, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Thursday after witnessing a firefighting exercise, called ‘Hephaestus 2024’ at the ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ on Thursday passed a law clamping down on foreigners buying property. Foreigners are now only allowed to buy one house or apartment each, provided that it ...

Conflicts of interest and an adjournment marked the beginning of the first court proceedings on Thursday, for the attorney-general’s motion to have the auditor-general removed from his post. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday began a two-day official visit to Poland where he held meetings with the country’s leadership. The president, accompanied by his spouse Philippa Karsera Christodoulides, ...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza “is continuing to deteriorate”, Cyprus’ ambassador to the United Nations Maria Michael said on Wednesday night. Speaking to the UN Security Council’s annual open ...

People living in the Troodos mountain area “should not be treated as second-class citizens”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. He was speaking about the state of the Troodos ...

The two cabinet-appointed investigators received their formal orders of operation on Wednesday, as they began digging into the 19-year-old case of guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s murder. They have “three months ...

Within the next two weeks answers will be given for several stalled infrastructure projects, Minister of Transport Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. Speaking on CyBC’s morning programme, Vafeades first ...

None of the aid unloaded from the jetty constructed off the coast of Gaza has yet been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder ...

The implementation of local government reform is at an advanced stage and will be complete by the July 1 deadline, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. Speaking in Paralimni, the ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers smashed the gate of the ‘prime minister’s’ office on Tuesday on their second day of protest. Farmers from across the north had descended on northern Nicosia ...

Forty per cent of Cypriots are “just getting by”, a poll presented on Tuesday showed. The same poll, carried out by the Cypronetwork company and commissioned by the Cyprus consumers’ ...

The 23-year-old man involved in a hit and run that killed 77-year-old Eleni Stavrinidou last week will face manslaughter charges, police said on Wednesday. “It appears the way in which ...

With EU and local elections coming up in less than a month, Cyprus authorities have been moving into high gear to help people know where they will vote and get ...

A 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from the roof of a four-storey block of flats in Paphos on Tuesday. Police were informed about the ...

Two men were remanded in custody on Tuesday on what police described as possibly the largest cache of weapons and explosives ever found in Cyprus. The two, aged 46 and 35, were ...