Pension reform bill to be brought to cabinet by end of 2025
The government aims to bring a bill to reform pensions before cabinet by the end of 2025, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday.
Speaking after a meeting with the labour ...
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Kombos to press for seat at UN Human Rights Council election
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos travelled to New York ahead of the election of members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the ministry announced on Monday.
Cyprus is a candidate ...
Turkish water to north cut off due to power cuts
Water being pumped to the north from Turkey was completely cut off from the north’s water supply due to ongoing power cuts in the area near the Panagra reservoir, ...
British media claims MI6 turned Russian spy in Cyprus into double agent
Reports in the British media claimed that the country’s secret intelligence service, commonly known as MI6, performed an operation to turn a Russian spy in Cyprus into a double ...
Man arrested after assaulting two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’
A man appeared in court in the north on Sunday, accused of assaulting two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ who were attending a peace event in central Nicosia on Saturday.
According to ...
Doctors call for urgent review of safety measures after patient attack
The Cyprus Medical Association on Sunday called for an “urgent review” of safety measures at accident and emergency departments in Cyprus’ hospitals after a patient attacked staff at the Nicosia ...
29kg of meat and 10 bags of coal seized by Turkish Cypriot police at crossing point
A total of 29 kilograms of meat and 10 bags of coal were seized by the Turkish Cypriot police at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point from a car which was attempting to ...
Papaconstantinou pledges framework to deal with disagreements with legal service
Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou on Sunday pledged to create a framework to manage disagreements between the audit office and the legal service.
Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, he said he had been ...
‘We know who the murderers of our children are’
Mehmet Tulek, whose daughter Asya was one of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during last year’s ...
ECJ ruling scuppers Cyprus’ plans to declare parts of Syria safe
A European Court of Justice ruling reached on Friday has scuppered Cyprus’ plans to declare parts of Syria as safe, with a view to returning migrants to those parts of ...
Maintenance work complete at Koma tou Yialou church
Maintenance work at the Saint Nicholas church in the Karpas peninsula village of Koma tou Yialou has been completed, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris announced on ...
Christodoulides to convene National Council over informal dinner with Tatar
President Nikos Christodoulides will convene the National Council on Monday ahead of his planned informal dinner with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on October 15, ...
Cyprus becomes full member of La Francophonie
Cyprus on Saturday became a full member of the International Organisation of La Francophonie.
The country joins La Francophonie’s 54 other full members, having been an observer since 2006.
The foreign ...
Preservation of cultural heritage ‘is govt’s goal’
The preservation of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is the government’s “strategic goal”, Migration Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Sunday.
Speaking at the Klirou cultural festival in ...
Christodoulides: Everyone recognises the Greek Cypriot side’s constructive approach
President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said “everyone recognises the Greek Cypriot side’s constructive approach” regarding efforts to solve the Cyprus problem.
Speaking at a memorial ceremony for Eoka fighter ...
Flights continue via Cyprus to remove people from Lebanon
Flights are continuing to and from Cyprus on Sunday to facilitate the departure of people from across the world from Lebanon and their onward journey to their countries of origin.
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‘It is our duty to learn the fate of all the missing’
Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Anna Aristotelous on Sunday said it is the government’s “duty and commitment” to ascertain the fate of all the people who went missing during Turkey’s ...
6,000 cigarettes from north confiscated from coffee shop in Aradippou
A total of 6,000 cigarettes which had been illegally transported from the north to the Republic were confiscated from a coffee shop in Aradippou, the customs department said on Sunday.
The ...
Man arrested for handing out smoke bombs at football match
A 21-year-old man was arrested after being seen on CCTV footage handing out smoke bombs to other football fans at Saturday’s football match between Ael and Ethnikos Achnas.
The ...
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Man dead after being run over by own car
A 68-year-old man from Limassol died after being run over by his own car after having parked it and failed to apply the handbrake before getting out, the police said ...
Maintenance work complete at Karpasia’s Ayios Theodoros church
Maintenance work at the Ayios Theodoros church in the Karpas peninsula village of the same name has been completed, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said.
Ktoris ...
Agros rosewater added to EU’s PGI register
The European Commission on Friday announced it had approved the addition of Agros rosewater to its Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) register.
The commission described the rosewater as “an aromatic water ...
USS Wasp returns to Cyprus
The United States’ amphibious assault ship the USS Wasp returned to Cyprus on Friday, US ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher said.
In a post on social media, she said the ...
Audit office reform bill to be submitted to legal service before year’s end
The bill approved by cabinet to reform the audit office, creating a new audit board, will be submitted to the legal service for legal and technical examinations before the end ...