#Cyprus

An MP demanded on Tuesday that authorities immediately launch a criminal probe into the Takata airbags affair to find out exactly who is responsible for the delays in recalling the ...

House President and Disy leader Annita Demetriou on Tuesday said she planned to table a proposal to institutionalise minimum operating levels in essential services during industrial action. The move comes ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Tuesday announced his intention to invite schoolchildren to the European Parliament building, prompting the Cypriot education ministry to distance itself from ...

Two bills extending the length of parental leave and improving childbirth benefits were set to be submitted to the House on Tuesday as part of measures to fill demographic gaps, ...

Cyprus and Greece are expected to cover a wide agenda on Wednesday during the second Intergovernmental Summit between the leaders of the two countries, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, began on Tuesday, with a prosecution witness saying ...

The right to a fair trial of two Cypriots jailed for their part in the so-called Dromolaxia scandal, a dodgy land deal that came under investigation in 2013, was not violated, ...

The amount of rain which has fallen in Cyprus so far during the month of November is already at 150 per cent of the average for the whole month, yet the ...

Turkish Cypriot police chief Kasim Kuni on Monday night denied the north’s ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek’s claims that the police had ordered him to not immediately disclose that ...

The government will be continuously evaluating local self-government reform to improve everyday life for the public, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday while attending the 44th annual general assembly of ...

Around 90 deputy mayors are getting paid on the taxpayer’s dime even though they have no official duties, the interior minister acknowledged in parliament on Monday. Constantinos Ioannou was at ...

Nicosia will host on November 27 the second intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece, as well as the Cyprus-Greece-Jordan trilateral summit. According to a presidency statement, the Greece-Cyprus summit will take ...

State hospital doctors will go ahead with their planned 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday after a last-ditch meeting with the state health services organisation (Okypy) ended in impasse on ...

More than one third of women from Cyprus who took part in a European survey said they had experienced physical violence, sexual violence or the threat of it during their ...

Financial repercussions from the ongoing concrete workers’ strike are growing exponentially while the shortage of material has far-reaching and unforeseen effects, the director general of the Cyprus chamber of commerce (...

President Nikos Christodoulides reportedly presented a plan of Cyprus’ possible future accession to NATO to US President Joe Biden at their meeting in October 30 at the White House. According to ...

As a yellow weather warning for high winds remained in place on Sunday and as the strength of them picked up in the afternoon, problems were seen around the island, ...

As temperatures around the island hit a low point on Sunday the first snow of the season fell on the mountains. At around 1pm a flurry of snow fell on ...

Hundreds of people demonstrated against “the transformation of Cyprus into a base for war” outside the US-sponsored security training facility CyCLOPS in Larnaca on Sunday. The protestors, carrying banners with ...

Elon Musk on Sunday declared that Cyprus YouTuber and MEP Fidias Panayiotou should become “president of the EU”. In a post on X, Musk responded to another user who said ...

Over 100 million euro will be spent to upgrade the health sector by 2027, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Sunday. He said this was made clear during a meeting on Friday ...

A 10-day old seal, one of the rarest animals in Europe, was rescued off the coast of Cyprus, the ministry of agriculture announced on Sunday. The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus ...

Cyprus’ commitment to implementing decisive actions against the climate crisis was reaffirmed by Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou during her participation in the COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, the ministry announced ...

Fraternal relations must be full of sincerity, such as those between Greece and Cyprus,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. “I have dealt historically with Athens-Nicosia relations and I think ...