Nikolaos Prakas

Cyprus received on Monday 10 million Swiss francs (10.092m euros) as a donation to deal with the migration crisis at a ceremony in Bern, Switzerland attended by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. ...

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political party representatives agreed on Monday that tensions need to de-escalate as soon as possible and both sides need to return to negotiations on the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades hinted on Friday that steps were being taken even as high as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over issues that arose with Unficyp in the past few weeks. ...

Clashes broke out and fires were lit at an overcrowded reception centre for migrants in Cyprus on Friday, police and witnesses said, necessitating authorities to break up the fighting with ...

Police arrested two people in Nicosia after they were found with just over seven kilogrammes of cannabis, authorities said on Friday. According to police, during checks on Thursday afternoon, two ...

Three people died from Covid-19 over the past week, while another 2,821 tested positive for the virus, the health ministry announced on Friday. The deaths related to two women, 82 and 87, and ...

The government has not given up its struggle for a solution to the Cyprus problem, deputy government spokeswoman Niovi Parisinou said marking the Greek Oxi day holiday in Polis Chrysochous ...

The house interior committee discussed on Thursday a draft bill on transparency in the ownership of media channels, submitted by the head of the committee Diko MP, Panicos Leonidou. Also ...

Cyprus has been ranked 18 out of 140 countries for 2022 in the World Justice Report, which measures the adherence to the rule of law in states across the globe. The country jumped ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday that Paphos has re-emerged as a ‘centre of intellect’, and praised the mayor and the local council for their diligent efforts in upgrading the ...

Makarios Avenue in Nicosia opened as a “shared space” for pedestrians and authorised vehicles on Thursday, in what the municipality hopes will lead to more environmentally friendly use of the ...

Greek Cypriots need to be asked if they want a clear-cut divorce with two states in Cyprus or a federation, former Turkish Cypriot negotiator Ozdil Nami said on Wednesday. The ...

Hellenic Bank announced on Wednesday that it will raise the wages of former Co-op bank employees who work for them, following a 2014 cut, which had carried over when the co-op ...

The movement for solving the issue of mixed marriages in the north said on Wednesday that they do not support a demonstration scheduled over the matter by another group in ...

Part of the new Larnaca marina, a €1.2 billion project, will open to the public on October 28, the municipality confirmed on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, the upgraded section was inaugurated in ...

Cabinet passed a decision on Wednesday to suspend any budget requests as of November 1 that will significantly affect the state budget, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said. Petrides said that the ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) said on Wednesday that they are disappointed and “deeply concerned” by statements from unions Sek and Peo to mobilise their workers if the cost-of-living ...

Part of a balcony in Latsia, Nicosia collapsed, the municipality said on Tuesday, a week after two similar incidents in Limassol. The Latsia municipality warned that older and abandoned buildings ...

Children of marriages between Turkish Cypriots and Turkish nationals and their supporters will demonstrate on November 19 in front of the interior ministry over delays and denials to grant them Republic ...

The agriculture ministry said on Tuesday it was shocked by a letter from the Cypriot hunters’ movement (Kekk) calling for minister Costas Kadis’ suspension, following the suspension of the veterinary ...

Sek trade union warned on Tuesday that if the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) fails to be fully reinstated they will mobilise their workers. “Reinstating the cost-of-living allowance is not negotiable,” secretary ...

A 24-year-old cycled around the entire island in just one day over the weekend to raise funds for thyroid cancer. The incredible feat, accomplished by Alexandros Agrotis, began from Deryneia ...

The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) signed a grant with a Swiss foundation worth close to million dollars on Monday for conservation ...

Cyprus can be a part of the solution to the energy crisis in Europe, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday, during a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis ...