#Cyprus

The north’s population is 590,000, excluding foreign students and Turkish soldiers, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Tuesday night. Speaking to Diyalog TV, he said the ruling coalition is working ...

By Kristina Cernakevica Two weeks ago, something quite revolutionary happened in the heart of Limassol. University Square – often a site of casual weekend strolls – became the stage for Cyprus’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides speaking at the 30th anniversary event of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) emphasised it’s crucial role in the ‘security architecture’ of the Eastern Mediterranean and ...

Currently there are around 89 programs and residences in place facilitating approximately 1,000 disabled people, the Deputy Welfare Ministry said on Monday, responding to concerns raised by the labour committee earlier in ...

A 57-year-old Nicosia businessman fell victim to a phone scam that saw him lose €14,500 on Monday afternoon, police reported on Tuesday. The man first received a phone call from an ...

The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it’s awaiting a response from the finance ministry on whether to include a tariff on electricity bills for the first €25 million that ...

The water of Memi lake in the Xyliatos area could not be used for interrogation purposes due to environmental concerns, experts from the agriculture ministry told the House agriculture committee ...

MPs hauled government officials over the coals on Tuesday after learning that the LNG import project at Vasiliko not only would not be ready by year’s end, as previously ...

MPs on Tuesday said they were concerned about living conditions of disabled people both private and state care homes. “Poor hygiene conditions, inadequate medical care, lack of adequate staffing and ...

The discovery of a natural gas reservoir at the Pegasus-1 site offshore Cyprus is “encouraging”, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after the government announced that drilling had ...

The validity of records of property ownership in northern Cyprus prior to 1974 in the hands of the land registry was called into question during Tuesday’s hearing of the trial ...

Doria Varoshiotou’s appeal against the supreme judicial council’s decision to relieve her of her duties as a judge will have its first hearing next week. The hearing will ...

Serving in the national guard is a “special honour”, Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas told new conscripts on Tuesday as he visited the Sergeant Lazaros Georgiou camp in Larnaca where teens ...

Tuesday’s wildfire between the villages of Galataria and Pentalia in Paphos has been described as a “crime” by Cyprus’ top forestry official, who said centuries-old heritage had gone up ...

A bizonal, bicommunal, federal solution to the Cyprus problem is no longer a “common point of reference” for the island’s two sides, United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin said ...

Cyprus was touted as a potential location for a planned camp to be built to house Palestinian people who are to be “temporarily” relocated out of Gaza, according to reports ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday expressed “anguish and anger” over a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling which found that Cyprus had violated the human rights of a ...

More than 2,000 patients have visited Nicosia general hospital’s “fast-track clinic” in the first three months of its operation, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. The clinic is operating ...

Parliament is aiming to hold a vote on legalising euthanasia in January next year, with an article-by-article deliberation in the House human rights committee of a bill providing for its ...

A handwriting expert testifying in a criminal trial on Monday stated categorically that the defendant – a German woman facing charges of fraudulently transacting in real estate – did not fill out ...

Transport drivers across Cyprus walked out on Monday, demanding urgent changes to laws on tachograph use. The 24-hour strike began at 5am following a vote last week by the national ...

The constitution clearly defines the separation of powers, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday, when asked about calls to sack deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides after the European Court of ...

Cyprus is turning to artificial intelligence, digital mapping and fresh witness outreach to resolve the fate of hundreds of missing persons from the 1960s and 1974, it was announced on Monday. ...

Two tourists from Brazil, aged 28 and 31, were arrested on Monday for the alleged assault on a police officer in Ayia Napa in the early hours. “At around 4am on Monday ...