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Cabinet has approved a raft of draft laws aiming to modernise both audit and law offices, in a move described as a key pledge of President Nikos Christodoulides’ government. Justice ...

Public explanations of the reasons for dismissing judge Doria Varoshiotou, who exposed claims of foul play in the long-running case of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou should be forthcoming, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Under new legislation in the works, stinging fines would be slapped on people who waste water, with repeat offenders facing criminal prosecution and possible jail time. It’s part of ...

Cyprus this week confirmed it did not join a mostly global scheme to protect people in nightspots until late March 2025, leaving police in the dark and tourists at risk. After ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos hopes that over the next few days there will be announcements for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza through Cyprus’ Amalthea plan and that 1,200 tonnes ...

A law designed to help thousands of ‘trapped buyers’ get a title deed on their property which they have paid for in full was passed by the House plenum on ...

The cabinet suspended former head of the central prisons Anna Aristotelous from her present post at the defence ministry on Wednesday over the classified state documents found in the residence ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said Cyprus is counting on the European Union’s support to bring about a return to negotiations on the Cyprus problem. Speaking after his meeting ...

The bursting of interrelated credit and property bubbles has caused financial crises in the US and certain European countries, including Cyprus, in recent decades. The epicentre of the global financial ...

Data furnished recently by the government lends weight to the notion that the purchase of real estate by foreigners continues on an upward trajectory, with some speculating that it’s ...

Israelis continued to make their way back home on Thursday, with 21 outbound flights scheduled for the day, as well as private vessels sailing out of Larnaca’s marina and a ...

Efforts are continuing to repatriate Cypriots from the Middle East, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Wednesday, as the conflict between Iran and Israel continues. Speaking after the day’s ...

The United Kingdom’s bases in Cyprus are “hugely important at this time”, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday night, amid an escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. ...

 India expects to finalise a free trade agreement with the European Union by the end of this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, while Cyprus, which assumes the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that Iran “has asked us to convey a message to Israel”, and that “we will do so”, amid an escalating conflict between the two ...

Iran on Saturday warned the United Kingdom, the United States and France that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they help to stop its missile ...

Iran fires missiles at Israel in response to attacks Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as sirens sounded on Friday night across Israel following what the country’s ...

The legal service on Thursday decided not to file any criminal charges over the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, his mother Andriana Nicolaou said. “Provocatively, for 20 ...

Between 2008 and 2017, a total of 7,500 individuals obtained Cypriot citizenship through the investment programme, with the cabinet first becoming involved in 2021, a senior officer told the Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday. ...

House energy committee chairman and Disy MP Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis on Tuesday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ “highly illegal” intervention over the matter of forthcoming rises in electricity bills, describing it as ...

An industry ecosystem that already produces drones and software sees the sector growing Talk of Cyprus having a defence industry may get trolled in conversations and on social media, but ...

China hopes to strengthen its ties with the European Union when Cyprus assumes the rotating presidency of the bloc in the first half of 2026, despite what it sees as “contradictory ...

Amid much pomp President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday laid the foundation stone for a project further expanding the island’s two international airports, promising to service over 17 million passengers a ...

A bill has been tabled in the United Kingdom’s parliament with the aim of allowing direct flights between the country and northern Cyprus. The bill, an “early day motion”, ...