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Six organisations have joined forces to protect three of Cyprus’ most iconic birds of prey through a new EU co-funded conservation programme aimed at tackling the main threats driving their ...

Reducing electricity prices remains the government’s top priority, according to President Nikos Christodoulides, who also said he will decide in 2027 whether to seek a second term, dismissing suggestions that ...

Subsidy programmes offered by the labour ministry are expected to allow around 9,500 people to organise summer holidays this year, with the ministry offering subsidies for both low-income pensioners and workers. ...

Hours of bombing at Nicosia’s Athalassa hospital in July 1974 left a crater in the ground while a series of makeshift burials took place of those who had died, leading ...

Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Monday backed the municipalities’ protest over local government reform, calling for increased state funding and saying the capital was receiving at least €12.5 million less than ...

State support for victims of the 2025 wildfires reached €23.2 million by June 30, representing 41 per cent of the government’s €56.1 million recovery package, according to figures released by the General Accounting Office ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “ready” to hold weekly meetings with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman in the aim of achieving the requisite progress for a new enlarged meeting on the ...

Cyprus’ foot-and-mouth disease outbreak is now under control, and the epidemic is in decline, with all but two livestock units testing negative as surveillance continues across the island, a senior ...

Cyprus stands ready to offer Greece’s authorities “whatever they want” as the country battles ongoing wildfires in the west of its Attica region, fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos said ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday rejected claims that the government was driving municipalities towards “financial suffocation”, announcing that state funding would rise to €156 million by 2027. Responding to Monday’s ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday renewed his call upon President Nikos Christodoulides to meet him once a week so as to complete what he described as the “homework” ...

Cyprus stands “ready to assist” Greece in its fight against wildfires which are continuing to rage in the west of the Attica region, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, after ...

The Cypriot government has shipped around €200,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Lebanon, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The shipment comprised a total of 31 containers, which the foreign ministry said ...

Some artistic projects are born from years of planning, research and preparation. Others begin with something much simpler: a single moment that stays with you long after it has passed. ...

It was another successful afternoon for Team Cyprus’ judo athletes at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday as Yiannis Antoniou won the island’s first gold medal of the competition. He ...

A yellow weather warning was issued on Sunday afternoon for high temperatures that are expected to hit inland areas of the island on Monday afternoon. Highest temperatures of around 40C ...

In front of political and church leaders and representatives from all walks of life, a memorial was held on Sunday for the first president of the Republic, Archbishop Makarios III, ...

Acting Paphos mayor Angelos Onisiforou on Sunday condemned vandalism in Kato Paphos after the end of a charity event, which the municipality had supported. The images seen by the competent ...

Provocations by authorities in the north during an anti-occupation event by Famagusta municipality event on Saturday evening are “condemnable” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. Speaking to journalists after a ...

The preparatory work with the UN to create the conditions for a successful enlarged meeting began on Friday, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday evening. This work will carry on ...

More than 3,800 students have participated in environmental education programmes at the Salamiou Environmental Education Centre this year. The centre promotes environmental awareness through field trips, ecosystem observations and hands-on activities ...

Police have launched an investigation into the brain death of a four-year-old boy while he was being transferred to Makarios hospital in Nicosia on July 14. “A police investigation is underway ...

The body of an 88-year-old British man was found inside a burnt-out vehicle on a dirt road in Avgorou on Saturday after a fire engulfed the car. According to local ...

Paphos winegrowers took to the streets on Saturday to protest over the government’s decision to limit compensation to only certain grape varieties affected by downy mildew, a move they ...