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Elam MP and House environment committee chairman Linos Papayiannis said on Monday that he will refuse to invite a group of anti-hunting activists to an upcoming committee debate, describing their ...

New Turkish Cypriot ‘transport minister’ Faiz Sucuoglu on Monday said that the sinking of a ferry off the coast of Kyrenia last month was “one of the greatest tragedies” Cyprus ...

Former deputy attorney-general Loukis Loucaides will be called to answer to two charges against him on October 20, after his case at the Limassol permanent criminal court was on Monday adjourned ...

All schools will have air conditioning units installed by 2028, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Speaking during a visit to theAyios Dhometios middle school in Nicosia to mark the start ...

The anti-corruption authority on Monday announced that it had ended its investigation into the “spy van affair”, during which it came to light that a company was offering private surveillance ...

The United States government’s decision to extend the waiver of its arms embargo on Cyprus for another year constitutes “a clear message regarding the relations between the United States ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said that “feverish” preparations are ongoing in the hope of achieving tangible results on the Cyprus problem during the United Nations general assembly’s “high-level ...

A deep-sea research and survey ship, named the Optimus Prime, has arrived off the coast of Kyrenia and is expected to join efforts on Monday to recover the 14 people who ...

Primary schools across Cyprus reopened their doors on Monday as the new academic year began, with a total of 52,186 children flooding through the gates of 328 primary schools and 274 nursery schools ...

Cyprus’ halloumi production faces a ‘systemic risk’ due to the excessive concentration of milk output in a small number of farms, Professor Stavros Malas cautioned on Saturday, warning that the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Saturday that a new housing plan tailored specifically to mountain communities will be unveiled within days, setting a target to double the population of the ...

The protective shield covering the British royal coat of arms at the old courts in occupied Nicosia has remained broken for around six months, exposing the colonial emblem to the ...

Seventy-one former state and elected officials are collecting more than one public pension, with some entitled to as many as three after serving in different public roles, according to figures ...

A single, financially and administratively independent water authority should be created to manage resources nationwide, Nicosia district local government organisation (EOA) chief Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Saturday. Yiorkadjis told the ...

A new bill making it simpler for Cypriots living abroad to have their foreign spouse registered as a Cyprus citizen has been put forward by the interior ministry. At the ...

The Supreme Court ruling on the disappearance of two men from Strongylos could have implications for other 1974 missing persons cases where similar circumstances and evidence exist. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he believes that Edek can return to parliament, after losing all its seats in the legislature at May’s election, as he met the ...

The captain of the passenger ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia on August 30 appeared in court in the town alongside eight other suspects – seven members of his crew ...

Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos on Friday spoke of “serious staffing problems” at the Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni, describing those shortages as “seriously concerning”. He said that he had ...

Sunat Atun has been selected by the Turkish Cypriot legislature to lead its investigation into whether there is political culpability to be apportioned following the sinking of a ferry off ...

Faults at pelican crossings in Nicosia, which saw pedestrian buttons attached to traffic lights render no change to the lighting sequence, are to be “resolved immediately”, the city’s mayor ...

Haematologist Sotiris Koumas on Thursday warned against the use of plasmapheresis outside established therapeutic settings, saying the procedure can cause complications ranging from mild to serious and should only be ...

People who “should not be hospitalised in psychiatric hospitals” are currently inpatients at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital, House health committee chairwoman Savia Orphanidou said on Thursday. Addressing the day’s ...

The interior ministry on Thursday provided a series of clarifications on two new schemes designed to boost affordable housing, announced earlier this week. The first scheme concerns the allocation of ...