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The United States’ state department has criticised the maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament last week, as “unconstructive and provocative”. According ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was reportedly in Ankara on Monday morning, with his political party the UBP in crisis, two days after holding a primary election to choose ...

For many shelter dogs, life is built around the same routine. There is food, a safe place to sleep and people who care for them. But there are also long ...

Turkey is using its maritime agreement with Libya to exert diplomatic pressure on Greece and Cyprus, while establishing a precedent that could eventually be used to challenge the Republic of ...

Residents of Sia have demanded an end to the expansion of quarrying operations near their village, warning that they will no longer tolerate further damage to the surrounding landscape. Speaking ...

Ninety-five years ago in October 1931, Britain deployed some 150 troops to Cyprus from Cairo and sent warships to Limassol and Paphos after a crowd burned down government house in Nicosia. The ...

Serbian citizens turned out in large numbers at their country’s embassy in Nicosia on Sunday to vote in the parliamentary election, with one voter describing the level of participation ...

More than 500 Serbian citizens are registered to vote in Cyprus on Sunday in the country’s parliamentary election, nearly four times the number recorded in 2023, according to members of the ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek resigned his post in the early hours of Sunday morning as the community’s largest political party, the UBP’s primary election ahead of ...

Given the ever-growing ties between Nicosia and Tel Aviv, it was likely only a matter of time before the Israel lobby began making advances to Cypriot politicians, culminating in the ...

The agriculture ministry on Saturday defended plans for a desalination plant in Mazotos, insisting that the project is essential for Cyprus’ water security and will proceed in accordance with legal ...

Two historic religious monuments in the occupied north, dating back to the 10th and 12th centuries, have been restored and officially handed over following conservation work by the bicommunal Technical ...

The future of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) remains uncertain, with French cable manufacturer Nexans indicating that production linked to the project may not resume until 2028, despite recent assurances from ...

The Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) has called on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly reject the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum and clarify that it has no legal effect ...

Trade unions Psem-Peo and Oekydy-Sek on Friday denied reaching an agreement with the education ministry over outstanding issues affecting employees in school support programmes, warning of further strike action unless ...

Tensions flared during the trial concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou at Nicosia district court on Friday, as a former special education teacher was cross-examined over allegations that the ...

Larnaca residents are reportedly being pressured to sell their homes to foreign property developers by being intimidated by “enforcers”, Akel MP Aristos Damianou alleged on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

A group of Greek Cypriot businessmen are suing a company in the occupied north of the island as well as soft drink makers Pepsi, seeking compensation to the tune of €140 ...

Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life at age 14, was a severely neglected boy who would never have turned out well, a witness in the ongoing trial told the court ...

Larnaca interest groups as well as MPs were stunned to hear on Thursday that management of the marina cannot be directly assigned to the Ports Authority, throwing a spanner into ...

The maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament on Tuesday, “infringes on the sovereign rights of third states”, the European Union’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides received a delegation from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) at the presidential palace on Wednesday, with both sides pledging to strengthen relations between Cyprus, the ...

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides on Tuesday urged members of the public to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to use defibrillators, stressing that immediate action by ordinary citizens can mean ...

The energy ministry on Wednesday said it is no longer accepting applications for people to receive grants as part of the “save and upgrade homes” scheme, as all the available ...