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MPs and patients’ associations on Tuesday decried the fact that parents with children suffering from serious ailments have largely been left to their own devices, with some even losing their ...

The government will retain income criteria for child benefits for families with three or more children, despite calls from MPs and social organisations for their abolition, the House labour committee ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said that both he and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman have agreed to make “no further statements” on matters of substance related to the Cyprus ...

Disy deputy leader Yiannis Karousos lambasted former finance minister Harris Georgiades for announcing he will not back Averof Neophytou’s presidential bid, saying the letter does not serve party unity ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Tuesday denied allegations that the results of his political party the UBP’s primary election ahead of December’s legislative elections had been ...

Former finance minister Harris Georgiades has said he will not campaign for former Disy leader Averof Neophytou in the 2028 presidential election should he win Disy’s nomination, and has offered ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday stressed that his proposal to open and repopulate the fenced-off area of Varosha under the United Nations’ administration and open the port of Famagusta under ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has admitted that the rendering of a proposed new central prison, shown to the House finance committee on Monday, was produced with artificial intelligence and “is ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed that his country is looking to securing its own interests in pursuing and ensuring the ratification of a maritime jurisdiction agreement with Libya, ...

The anti-corruption authority will soon commence its probe into the ‘spy van’ affair, it told MPs on Monday. Officials with the authority were answering questions about their work, during a ...

By Rebekah Gregoriades Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life in 2019 when he was 14, “was the child who grew sadder as the school day came to a close”, special education ...

The Turkish Cypriot community’s largest political party the UBP on Monday announced that it had rejected every single one of the 17 appeals filed against the provisional results of the ...

Averof Neophytou and Giorgos Pamboridis formally submitted their candidacies for Disy’s presidential nomination on Monday, setting the stage for an internal contest ahead of the 2028 presidential election. The contrasting ...

Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis made an on-site inspection of the landslides threatening the community of Pissouri on Friday, with local authorities stressing the need to find an immediate solution as ...

The trial of three men accused of murdering businessman Stavros Demosthenous opened before the Limassol permanent criminal court on Monday. They are also charged with illegal possession, transport and use ...

The government on Monday called for detailed discussions on how to make its Varosha proposal acceptable to the Turkish Cypriot side, rather than focusing on reasons for rejecting it, ahead ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris informed the House finance committee on Monday that the ministry will resubmit the issue of intercepting telephone conversations to parliament. Fitiris did not clarify as to ...

Italian energy company Eni is on Monday set to sign contracts worth $1.8 billion for the construction of the infrastructure which will allow for the natural gas in Cyprus’ Kronos gas ...

Former health minister George Pamboridis formally submitted his candidacy for Disy’s presidential nomination on Monday, expressing confidence that the party would emerge stronger from the internal election process ahead ...

A 51-year-old monk pleaded not guilty to all charges before the Paphos criminal court on Monday over an alleged attempted murder at Saint Neophytos Monastery in Tala, with the court ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou formally submitted his candidacy for the party’s presidential nomination on Monday, making an emotional appeal to young people, pensioners and small business owners, as ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday stressed that the proposal he had made to Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to open and repopulate the fenced-off area of Varosha under the United ...

Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh has thanked Cyprus and Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos for his and its support for her campaign to be named the United Nations’ new secretary-general when incumbent ...

The Turkish government has issued a navtex, a message used to transmit information to seaborne vessels, to warn sailors of planned seabed surveys in the waters between its southern coast ...