Nikolaos Prakas

Unficyp chief and the UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart said on Monday that he is concerned over increased militarisation of the buffer zone, seemingly caused by the stalled ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday discussed the issue of missing persons with the outgoing secretary-general of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric. The president also discussed the fourth interstate ...

Cyprus has an opportunity to push ahead and establish a Truth Commission on the Missing with a visit by the Council of Europe in early July and also the presence ...

The number of students in Cyprus has doubled in the last ten years, Health Minister Michael Damianos said, while addressing on Friday a Frederick University graduation ceremony in Nicosia. The ...

A US State Department report published on Saturday said that Cyprus needs to encourage greater access to religious sites on both sides of the divide and reduce discrimination against minority ...

The finance ministry on Saturday condemned the planned 48-hour strike by doctors in public hospitals that is set to paralyse the health system next week. The doctors’ union Pasyki said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that if Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar wanted the Mia Milia checkpoint to “truly” open he could have already done so. Christodoulides, speaking at ...

Police on Saturday said they arrested five men involved in a fight between two families in Limassol. According to an announcement, police were searching for the five Syrian men in ...

A 48-year-old murder suspect has been remanded for a further six days on Saturday, a day after being released from the Athalassa psychiatric hospital police said. The man is the ...

Police are investigating an alleged rape in Paphos on Saturday, after a 19-year-old girl filed a complaint with authorities. According to police, the girl said that she was on holiday ...

Hundreds of people have been repatriated after they were found to be living illegally in the Republic of Cyprus, it was reported on Saturday. According to a police announcement, 201 people ...

The ‘stop-start’ US temporary pier off the coast of Gaza was due to be towed back to Ashdod in Israel yet again due to high seas expected over the weekend, ...

A 19-year-old was arrested at Larnaca airport on Friday as a suspect in yacht burglary, police said. The burglary is believed to have happened from April to May 2024 in Limassol ...

Global credit rating agency, Morningstar DBRS, has upgraded its growth forecast of the Cypriot economy by 0.3 per cent in 2024 and by 0.1 per cent in 2025, compared to its forecast last March.  ...

A 20-year-old man on Friday was found guilty of a rape in Ayia Napa last summer and sentenced to eleven years in jail, according to a decision by the Famagusta ...

Two monks involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal requested on Friday to replace their attorney at a hearing to unfreeze their assets, which was eventually postponed by the court ...

The foreign ministry welcomed on Friday the adoption of a resolution on Varosha by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The resolution called for the immediate return ...

German Foreign Minister Analena Baerbock had to fly over the tarmac at Larnaca airport on Tuesday on a flight to Lebanon from Israel. It was reported in Deutsche Welle, that ...

Archimandrite Nektarios, one of the monks involved in the Osiou Avakoum Monastery scandal, was remanded for a further eight days on Wednesday, after appearing in court with a new defence ...

British bases police on Wednesday arrested the a 46-year-old man, suspected of murdering another man at autobody paint shop in Ormidia the previous night. After establishing a line of communication, ...

Police have secured an arrest warrant against a German property promoter living in the north, who was expected to provide testimony in an ongoing investigation into the usurpation of Greek ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested as a suspected for causing a fire in Aradippou, which burned one hectare of land, police said on Wednesday. He was later remanded for five ...

Two men were remanded on Monday on drug possession charges, while one of the suspects seems to be involved in a recent Nicosia café fire. The man suspected of involvement ...

The opening of a local office of the European Investment Bank (EIB) will bring significant benefits for Cyprus, the finance ministry said on Monday, adding that Minister Makis Keravnos has ...