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It took the foreign ministry a week to respond to the draft report of the UN Secretary-General about the renewal of the Unficyp mandate. The time it took to issue ...

It was a surprise to hear education minister Athena Michaelidou would consider the introduction of English language undergraduate courses at the public universities. Although some postgraduate courses are being offered ...

Interior minister Constantinos Ioannou stepped up his efforts to persuade Brussels to reassess the status of Syria as a war zone during the visit of EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, ...

There was no disagreement among party leaders at Monday’s meeting of the National Council, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The president had listened to the suggestions of the parties, ...

One of the arguments used by the Cyta unions during Wednesday’s two-hour work stoppage was that they would “stand firm against any effort that may undermine the public character ...

The scientific committee monitoring Covid-19 was back in action on Wednesday. Its members met Health Minister Dr Popi Kanari to discuss the increase of Covid infections recorded in the last ...

Extensive coverage was given by the media to the news conference given by the Federation of Patients Associations of Cyprus (Osak) on Monday, during which it attacked the government for, ...

It’s been well over two months since Cyprus first floated the idea of creating a maritime humanitarian corridor from the island to the besieged Gaza Strip. On Thursday, it ...

It took Archbishop Georgios III a year to show his true colours. Almost 12 months after his enthronement, he issued fire and brimstone message for Christmas, indicating he would continue the ...

After a rather low-key, three-day debate that received minimal media coverage and barely registered among the public, the state budget for 2024 was approved by a comfortable majority on Wednesday. With ...

In its effort to show some decisiveness in dealing with fan violence at sports grounds the ministry of justice and public order prepared a list of amendments to existing legislation. ...

Businesses have been complaining about labour shortages ever since the end of the pandemic. Tens of thousands of EU workers returned to their countries during the lockdown and have not ...

It is difficult to understand why the European authorities have targeted journalists, media owners and their families as potential security threats which national governments would have the powers to spy ...

It has become something of a political tradition for opposition parties to call for a meeting of the national council whenever there is the slightest hint of possible movement on ...

One newspaper claimed that the audit office’s report about the earnings of President Nikos Christodoulides, while he was serving as acting government spokesman, between 2014 and early 2018, had ‘detonated a ...

It should not have surprised anybody that in the ‘PISA 2022’ international evaluation of students Cyprus finished in the bottom quarter of the rankings – number 62 out of 81 countries. We could not ...

There is no end to the long-running foreclosures farce, which will be on centre stage at the House plenum on Friday, when the government bills, which are aimed at appeasing ...

MPs were out beating their breasts on Thursday, in tears for the poor public who are faced with the new carbon tax slated for early next year plus having to ...

While tributes poured into the US from around the world on Thursday after the death at 100 of controversial, American politician Henry Kissinger, the silence from Nicosia was deafening. Neither the ...

Is there anything duller than listening to the deputy tourism minister droning on about ‘sustainable tourism’ at the recent Malta conference at a time when the last pristine area of ...

It was no surprise to read that in 2022, social protection and healthcare expenditure, which encompasses inpatient and outpatient care, medicines and sickness benefits, measured as a percentage of GDP, stood ...

At a meeting with ministers and other officials last Monday, President Christodoulides revealed that he had tried to secure the services of experts from abroad to help with investigations of ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades issued a statement on Friday, welcoming the decision of the Authority Against Corruption to investigate serious allegations of corruption made against him in a book by ...

What a complete mess the authorities have made with the road works in the Akamas. It appears that restrictions set out by the environment department, in line with the Akamas ...