#Cyprus

A €10 million budget will be used to co-finance the participation of Cypriot entities in research and development projects under the European Defence Fund (EDF), the government announced on Friday. “The ...

The Larnaca municipality announced on Friday that a new system enabling people with mobility difficulties to enter the sea has been installed at Kastela beach. The iSEATRAC Mover system was ...

A power outage struck Larnaca’s Mitropolis area on Friday morning after strong winds toppled a tree, bringing down several Electricity Authority (EAC) poles, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. ...

Cyprus has “no intention”a to “create a confrontation with the Greek government” over the matter of the Great Sea Interconnector, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday. He had ...

It is “inconceivable” that workers and employers are yet to reach an agreement over the future of the cost-of-living allowance, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday. Asked whether he ...

The prosecutor in the case of the five Greek Cypriots in the north accused of privacy violations, trespassing and breaching the peace at a civilian court in Trikomo on Friday ...

Students at Polis Chrysochous gymnasium and Kykkos A lyceum in Nicosia on Friday staged a walkout over broken fans and air conditioning units in the school’s classrooms, saying that ...

An Indian naval warship will arrive in Cyprus on Sunday as part of efforts to strengthen defence ties between the two countries, the Indian High Commission said on Friday. The ...

Women who complete voluntary service in the National Guard will pay half price for their university tuition if they subsequently enrol at a private university in Cyprus, Defence Minister Vasilis ...

Nine people were remanded for eight days after they helped 16 irregular migrants into the country in the Peristerona area of Nicosia, police said on Friday. At around 9.30pm on Thursday, ...

The civil defence will assume an “upgraded role” as part of the government’s reforms of its crisis management framework and the planned creation of a national civil protection mechanism, ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou on Thursday continued pushing back at government legislation which has the stated aim of introducing reforms to the Audit Office, saying the proposals would end up “paralysing” ...

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) has delivered a damning report on a law passed in Cyprus this summer regulating public gatherings and parades, calling many of ...

Former Edek leader and sitting MP Marinos Sizopoulos said on Thursday that he “fears nothing,” saying that he had been refused access to a report pointing to possible criminal offences ...

Cyprus’ Scientific and Technical Chamber (Etek) has evaluated 689 of the 714 reports on properties damaged and lost in the July 23 wildfire in Limassol, and 111 owners have already been called to sign ...

Trade unions Peo and Deok stressed on Thursday that the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) was not a financial or legal issue, but a social one and as such should be implemented, ...

Green party leader Stavros Papadouris on Thursday wrote to United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin, asking her to meet him. The party said Papadouris had a detailed assessment of the ...

The ambulance service ran its own operations centre when the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people broke out in July and was not asked to ...

House interior committee chairman Aristos Damianou on Thursday lambasted the state’s response to the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people in July, speaking of “...

Employers’ and industrialists’ federation (Oev) and the Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry (Keve) have received legal counsel about regulating the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) for the private sector by law, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides travelled to the Canadian city of Toronto on Thursday morning to meet with Canadian entrepreneurs and investors in the finance, research, innovation and real estate sectors, with ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) has announced that the new accident and emergency department at the Larnaca general hospital will start operating on Thursday. “The new A&E ...

The weather will remain mostly clear on Thursday with temperatures rising to up to 35 degrees Celsius inland, 29 degrees on the west coast, around 31 in the remaining coastal areas coast and ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu on Tuesday called for snap ‘parliamentary’ elections to be held after the north’s budget is passed through its legislature at the end ...