Puppy rescuers hailed as heroes on social media
By Dominique Miltiadou A STRING of videos posted on facebook showing the rescue of a puppy on the Larnaca highway have gone viral. The puppy
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Pilots take legal steps against airline board
By Angelos Anastasiou EIGHT out of 11 Cyprus Airways board members have been served with a court summons as part of a lawsuit brought by
Mavroyiannis wraps up US talks
By Stefanos Evripidou GREEK CYPRIOT negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis wrapped up his meetings at the UN headquarters in New York yesterday, meeting with senior UN officials
US official discusses ‘issues of mutual interest’
By Stefanos Evripidou PRESIDENT NICOS Anastasiades yesterday met with a senior US official for international security at the Presidential Palace to discuss the Ukraine crisis,
Papadopoulos and Anastasiades meet to mend fences
By Stefanos Evripidou DIKO LEADER Nicolas Papadopoulos met President Nicos Anastasiades yesterday at the Palace to discuss a range of issues, including the Cyprus problem
‘Leading role for shipping’
By Staff Reporter The island’s shipping sector will have an important and leading role to play in the recovery of the economy, President Nicos Anastasiades
Defendants in CyTA land scandal plead not guilty
By Angelos Anastasiou EIGHT defendants – seven persons and a legal entity – implicated in the CyTA land scandal yesterday pleaded not guilty to all
CMP was dysfunctional, says Theophilou
By Stefanos Evripidou FORMER Greek Cypriot representative of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) Theophilos Theophilou resigned from his post in protest at the dysfunctional
Cyprus, Israel, Greece: the new supply hope of Europe
By Staff Reporter CYPRUS aspires to become in the long run an alternative provider of energy to meet EU needs, energy minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said
SAPA reject one-year freeze for Peyia sewerage tax
By Bejay Browne THE PAPHOS sewerage board SAPA has rejected a formal request by Peyia council for a one-year delay on tax demands which are
Natura 2000 site a vast wasteland of rubbish
THE Green Party yesterday highlighted the transformation of a Natura 2000 protected site into a vast wasteland of rubbish. The Greens visited an area between
IMF approves next tranche of aid for Cyprus (updated)
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund on Friday approved the disbursement of the next tranche of financial assistance to Cyprus of around €83.3
Cyprus abolishes maximum daily cash withdrawal limits
Cyprus abolished maximum daily cash withdrawal limits from bank accounts on Friday, a year after it imposed capital controls to prevent economic meltdown and a flight
Police investigate shooting incident involving two brothers
POLICE are investigating a case of domestic violence after two brothers got into a fight in Liopetri, resulting in one shooting at the other with
Burglars net over €11,000 in loot
ROBBERS made off with €11,600 worth of stolen cash, watches and jewellery from a Paphos flat reported burgled on Thursday night. According to the flat
Elam suspects released by the court
Three members of far-right group ELAM were on Friday released from custody after the court denied a police request that the suspects be remanded over the
Cyprus to mark Earth Hour
Hundreds of millions of people in over 135 countries around the world will on Saturday evening join the Earth Hour campaign, switching off lights for an
Cyprus votes in favor of UN resolution on Crimea
By Antonios Gkildakis (CNA) Cyprus was among the 100 countries that voted on Thursday in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution, affirming the Assembly’s “commitment
Downer; solution difficult but not impossible
By Stefanos Evripidou A CYPRUS solution is “very difficult” but not impossible, said outgoing UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer yesterday. Downer, who came to Cyprus
Sides far apart in peace talks says Anastasiades
By Stefanos Evripidou THE TWO sides’ positions in the peace talks are far apart, said President Nicos Anastasiades yesterday, arguing certain Turkish Cypriot positions fall