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The fiscal cost of the planned overhaul of the pension system will tally at “considerably more” than €50 million a year, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Thursday, while insisting that ...

Persistent technical problems and delays on the Paphos-Polis Chrysochous road were at the centre of a meeting of the House transport committee on Thursday. Following the meeting, MPs said the ...

Two Nicosia municipalities called on Thursday for the immediate revocation of the government’s decision to locate the new central prisons in Ayios Sozomenos, arguing the site was chosen without ...

The anti-corruption authority is reportedly preparing to launch a renewed investigation into the black surveillance van case, examining aspects of the affair not covered by the original criminal inquiry. Approached ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday that new proposals put forward by the Greek Cypriot side during his latest meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman could lead to “positive ...

Christodoulides ‘fully prepared’ for expanded Cyprus talks By James Morphakis President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman met on Thursday, holding what the UN called “a good discussion ...

Homeowners will be able to construct an additional floor or extension to their existing property to house children or grandchildren under a new government scheme, the interior ministry confirmed on ...

The law firm of former president Nicos Anastasiades has filed an appeal with the Court of Appeals against the anti-corruption authority, demanding access to the complete report compiled by its ...

A British father who lost his young son in a fall from a Paphos hotel appeared in court on Thursday, a day after what would have been the child’s ...

Gunmen on motorcycle open fire at Limassol business building Two men opened fire on a building housing several companies in the Linopetra area of Limassol late on Wednesday night, smashing ...

Disy deputy chairman Efthimios Diplaros and vice-chairman Yiannis Karousos have exchanged accusations of party disloyalty, after Karousos told an online leadership meeting that Diplaros had attended a gathering ‘supporting President ...

The trial of suspended mayor of Paphos Phedonas Phedonos continues on Thursday before the Paphos criminal court, with key prosecution witnesses due to testify. The hearing, which began in late ...

A clear timetable for the installation and operation of air conditioners in all schools was requested by the House education committee, educational organisations, parent associations and the Pan-Cyprian Student Co-ordinating ...

Two Cypriot members of the European Parliament reacted to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union address by demanding that the bloc take more ...

The 41-year-old man who killed his wife in a field next to the motorway which links Nicosia and Morphou appeared in court for the second time on Wednesday, with a ...

An action plan for the protection of minors using social media was approved on Wednesday by the cabinet, following an “urgent challenge” created by the fact that 98 per cent of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday said that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had demanded that progress be made on seven separate topics on the Cyprus problem, and declared ...

There is a prospect for “concrete steps” towards progress on the Cyprus problem ahead of meetings in New York, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday, adding that the Greek ...

The number of unaccompanied children evacuated to Greece between 1974 and 1979 may have exceeded 5,000, more than double the 2,000 officially recorded, the House refugee committee heard on Tuesday. Head of the Children ...

European Commission Cyprus problem envoy Raffaele Fitto is to travel to both Ankara and Athens in the coming days to hold talks with the political leadership of both Turkey and ...

Akel member of the European Parliament Giorgos Georgiou on Tuesday demanded an end to what he described as “double standards” being taken by the European Union on Israel, compared to ...

Fidias Panayiotou was on Tuesday one of more than 100 members of the European Parliament who signed a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanding that the European ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides of Diko and Geadis Geadi of Elam on Tuesday accused Turkey of carrying out “hybrid attacks” on Cyprus, as the parliament’s ...

A group of residents of the village of Akrotiri on Tuesday staged a protest against the British government’s plans to erect as many as 68 new communications antennae near the ...