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The state has lost more than €5 million in fees from six pleasure boat mooring areas that have remained unused since they were granted to private companies in 2018, the audit office ...

Electric scooter injuries have risen sharply despite thousands of complaints over their use, with MPs calling for stronger enforcement and changes to existing rules during the House transport committee on ...

The cabinet approved on Thursday a €12.5 million reform of child benefit that will increase payments for lower income families and widen income thresholds, with the measures due to take effect ...

The first board of directors of the National Cancer Institute was approved by cabinet on Thursday. “After the institutionalisation and establishment of the National Cancer Institute, we are now moving ...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived at the presidential palace in Nicosia on Thursday for talks with President Nikos Christodoulides, as police imposed heightened security measures and anti-war groups prepared to ...

The reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel will remain in place until November 30, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos announced on Thursday, extending a measure that was due to expire ...

The United Nations has denied a report that Unficyp force commander Lieutenant General Mohammad Asadullah Minhazul Alam has been removed from his post, saying on Thursday that he “remains the ...

MPs demanded answers over pollution in the Limassol sea on Wednesday, with the House environment committee expressing dissatisfaction with the environment department. Committee members questioned the department’s position that ...

The Irish Kinahan cartel are alleged to have plotted to murder British twin brothers in Cyprus, according to an international investigation which found that smaller criminal networks in Ireland and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that Cyprus was closer than ever to seeing the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project move towards implementation, following an agreement with Greece and the ...

Former first ladies, Elsi Christofias and Androulla Vassiliou, are among those from whom police protection is to be withdrawn under a new system taking effect this month. The reform also ...

Annita Demetriou has emerged as the leading choice among Disy members for the party’s presidential nomination ahead of the 2028 elections. The poll, conducted by IMR on behalf of news ...

Cyprus has the lowest suicide rate in the EU, with the island recording 3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents compared to the European Union average of 10.4. Together with Greece at 4.3 and Malta at 5.5, ...

The lack of a Cyprus-owned air ambulance sees the health insurance organisation (HIO) spend an approximate €2.6 million per year on external air lifting services, with the majority of the services ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Wednesday acclaimed what he described as a “show of power in Cyprus”, when his country deployed frigates and F-16 fighter jets to the island ...

The British father charged following the death of his three-year-old son at a Paphos hotel has asked the attorney-general to suspend the criminal prosecution against him, his lawyer told the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday ended with no joint statement, with the pair going their separate ways following around an hour and a ...

The forestry department has launched an architectural tender for the €3 million project for carparks, kiosks and shops in Akamas, to serve the thousands of visitors and lighten the burden on ...

The final decision regarding the apportion of responsibility among four men found guilty of involvement in the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos was on Wednesday delayed until next month. The four, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday declared their joint intention to “uphold security and stability in the region” after ...

The fire at the landfill site near the Kyrenia village of Koutsoventis may continue to burn for weeks, bicommunal technical committee on the environment co-chairman Michalis Loizides said on Tuesday, ...

The Cyprus Peace Council and other anti-war organisations will stage a protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Cyprus outside the presidential palace in Nicosia on Thursday. The ...

Police are investigating an attack on a 25-year-old food delivery rider who was robbed by two men in the Limassol district early on Tuesday. He was riding his motorcycle in ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Tuesday discussed the “next steps” to be taken regarding the salvage operation of the passenger ferry that ...