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Akel on Friday said Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou must “resign or be sacked”, lambasting her response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district last summer, water shortages, and ...

Paphos resident Kyriakoula Koutsavaki, who was reported missing on Friday morning was found dead at Timi beach, police said on Friday evening. Police initiated a search operation involving air, land ...

Workers at the electricity authority (EAC) went on strike for two hours on Friday morning protesting what they described as “erratic” policies followed by the government in the energy sector ...

Convicted murderer Doros Theofanous, known as ‘the hairdresser’, has filed an application to reopen or annul his conviction, citing new sworn testimony that challenges the credibility of a key prosecution ...

No new cases of foot and mouth disease have been reported on Friday, but the situation remains critical, veterinary services department spokeswoman Sotiria Georgiadou said in her latest briefing at ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday evening, with rumours abounding that he intended to use the meeting to gain Erdogan’...

Tal Dilian, the Israeli national who in 2021 was cleared of all charges relating to the case of the ‘spy van’ in Larnaca, is among four people found guilty by a ...

The House on Thursday evening amended the law on public gatherings and parades, softening up some of its provisions which critics had decried as draconian. The vote garnered 29 votes in ...

People having to wait long hours before being admitted as inpatients, malfunctioning equipment and irregular paperwork, were some of the findings of a surprise inspection at state hospitals discussed in ...

A proposal to ban electric scooters outright was placed before the House transport committee on Thursday, following a recent series of fatal and serious accidents. The bill was submitted by ...

The case file regarding allegations of rape against suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos was on Thursday handed over to the legal service. The receipt of the file was confirmed to ...

The government has amended its proposed phone-tapping legislation, with the latest amendment set would allow the attorney-general of the day to order the interception of telecommunications without prior court approval, ...

The anti-corruption authority on Thursday acknowledged delays in completing its investigation into the book Mafia State, insisting the probe remains on course and insulated from political pressure before parliamentary elections ...

Former Cyprus Football Association chairman Giorgos Koumas was on Thursday released on a bail worth €100,000 at the end of the first hearing of a criminal case filed against him in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday warned of “turbulent times” during his address to the “Battlefield Redefined” defence conference in Rome. “The ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as the various ...

New crossing points opened to connect Cyprus’ two sides should “facilitate the daily lives of all the Cypriot people”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. “What I want to mention ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman visited the Greek Cypriot middle school in Rizokarpaso on Wednesday, meeting pupils and teachers from both that school and the town’s Greek Cypriot primary ...

Old calendarist priests entered a farm in the Larnaca district on Wednesday night to bless its goats, with the area having been hit by an outbreak of foot and mouth ...

Cyprus is “still at the beginning” of its fight against an ongoing outbreak of foot and mouth disease, veterinary services department spokeswoman Sotiria Georgiadou said on Thursday, stressing that the ...

It is Turkey which “controls things in Cyprus”, Cypriot member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas, of Disy, said on Wednesday, as the parliament’s petitions committee (Peti) discussed the ...

The amount of water being supplied to the Larnaca district has been reduced, the Larnaca district government said on Wednesday, with the water pressure in the district’s pipes having ...

The government is against the idea of cutting pensions, even for the highest earners, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Wednesday. He was speaking after a meeting of government officials ...

Dual British Cypriot citizens are required as of Wednesday, February 25 to use a valid British passport when entering the United Kingdom according to an announcement by the Cypriot high commission ...

British intelligence is increasingly apprehensive that Russian nationals linked to the Kremlin are acquiring properties near the RAF base at Akrotiri as part of a covert “hybrid warfare” strategy. According ...