Cyprus

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Cyprus violated the right to free elections by failing to address a legislative gap that left a parliamentary seat vacant ...

Discussions were held at the House institutions committee on Wednesday regarding plans to create a registry of all public contracts. The bill has been put forward by Green Party leader ...

The education ministry and teaching unions have until November 5 to submit a plan for the teacher evaluation system reforms, The House education chair Pavlos Mylonas said on Wednesday. Education Minister ...

A 23-year-old woman was remanded for eight days on Wednesday after more than a half a kilogram of cocaine was seized at Larnaca airport on Tuesday. She is believed to ...

Depositors who lost their savings in the 2013 bank bail-in, commonly known as the “haircut”, have been given until the end of the month to file applications for reimbursement from the ...

A plenary session vote on regulating the lighting of Easter bonfires (‘lambradjies’) is expected to take place within the next 15 days, after Archbishop Georgios agreed to the bill, the House ...

Strict measures were agreed on Wednesday after an incident on Tuesday, when students from Larnaca technical school threw objects, including olives, inside their school bus, forcing the driver to stop ...

The union of municipalities on Wednesday called an urgent meeting with all mayors to assess the government’s commitment to the reform and financial sustainability of the municipalities. The union ...

Bank holiday, good weather and the kind of mood that makes you want to get out and do something. A friend had suggested Smoothie Factory + Kitchen up in the Mercure, ...

The decision regarding dismissed judge Doria Varoshiotou’s appeal against her dismissal will be announced “as soon as possible”, supreme constitutional court chief justice Antonis Liatsos said on Wednesday, following ...

Organised crime in Cyprus is now often imported from abroad, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Wednesday. Addressing a behind-closed-doors session of the House legal committee held in light of ...

It may only be October but before you know it, festive decorations, carols, markets and mulled wine will signal the start of the Christmas period. This year, the capital will ...

DESIGN EQUALITY is the seventh installment in BE OPEN’s long-running series of global competitions inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Initiated by the socio-cultural platform BE ...

Limassol district court on Wednesday ordered the eight-day detention of a 30-year-old convicted prisoner suspected of orchestrating the purchase of the motorcycle involved in last week’s murder of 49-year-old ...

The presidential administration building located next to the presidential palace will be adorned with a model sculpture resembling the famous fourth century Kyrenia shipwreck, it was announced on Wednesday. The ...

The British bases announced on Wednesday that revealed anti-bird trapping operations have continued at pace despite the ambelopoulia migration season ending this month. Specialist officers from the community action team (...

The rocket launcher which detached from a military helicopter during a training flight on Tuesday has been retrieved by police and handed over to the defence ministry, the ministry’s ...

The trial two people arrested during the independence day parade last year was postponed by the Nicosia district court on Wednesday. Journalist Giorgos Tattis and Turkish Cypriot political activist Oz ...

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne, who will serve as the UN’s new special representative and head of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) has arrived in Cyprus to formally assume ...

A bill on the five-year extension of lifting the US arms embargo to Cyprus, which could replace its current annual renewal, is set to be voted on by the US ...

Sixty-five boxes of untaxed cigarettes, each containing 200 cigarettes, were seized from a 58-year-old Turkish Cypriot at Paphos airport on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The cigarettes were found in his ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is on Wednesday in Brussels, where he will participate in a dinner later for the leaders of the EU member states with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ...

One parliamentary seat will be transferred from Nicosia to Paphos, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. Speaking to CyBC, Ioannou said the ministry has prepared a bill to redistribute ...

Countries that pose a threat to the security and defence interests of the EU and its member states cannot participate in its defence initiatives, Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Marilena ...