Cyprus

Cyprus in recent years has taken strides in advancing intellectual property rights and processes, key to driving innovation, the commerce minister said on Tuesday. George Papanastasiou was addressing the annual ...

The trial of two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as Cyprus citizens, commonly known as ...

Manufacturers kept recalls secret as they did not want problems publicised, a former senior official at the road transport department told the Takata airbags inquiry on Tuesday. Sotiris Kolettas, who ...

Cypriots pay the second-highest rates for electricity in Europe when adjusted for spending power, Eurostat data released on Tuesday showed. Only consumers in the Czech Republic pay more for their ...

Pro-Palestinian activist Louis Allan, currently staging a hunger strike for Gaza on a tree in Engomi, was reportedly attacked by two people and robbed off his Palestine flags on Tuesday ...

A total of 304 individuals have been stripped of their citizenships, following a sweeping review of the now-defunct “golden passport” scheme, the government has confirmed. All those affected had received Cypriot ...

CARDET marks its 20th anniversary this year, celebrating two decades of meaningful contributions to education, innovation, and social progress. Since its founding in 2004, CARDET has grown into the leading independent ...

In 2024, a total of 28 forest fires were recorded in Cyprus, burning a total area of 3,529 hectares, 25 per cent of which was in Natura2000 areas, the environment commissioner’s office said ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan on Tuesday said he had filed a lawsuit to restore his client’s degree, which had been revoked in March. The degree ...

Although worldwide an estimated 985 million women struggle with menopause, it continues to be surrounded by silence, shame and misinformation, worsening the broader crisis in women’s health and leading to ...

Turkey has donated a digger and a machinery transport vehicle worth €126,500 to the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, it was announced on Tuesday. The equipment was delivered through the ...

Larnaca municipality warned on Tuesday that fake QR codes have been placed by scammers on parking meters. It said this has been going on for a few days. The fake ...

More than 4,000 housing units in Cyprus’ refugee settlements remain without title deeds, causing serious delays in grant applications for urgent repairs, chair of the House refugee committee Nikos Kettiros said ...

The malfunction of the national health system (Gesy) software is “a long-standing and unacceptable phenomenon”, the Medical Association said on Tuesday, adding that tweaks have proved to be “sloppy and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides acknowledged the civil service’s negative image on Tuesday, saying however that it had been a driver in difficult times, such as after the Turkish invasion in 1974, ...

Amid reports revealing Cypriot prisons arethe most overcrowded in Europe,at an occupancy rate of 226.2 per cent, the prison guards branch of the Pasydy union on Tuesday warned that “critical ...

An 18-year-old man accused of attacking an elderly woman and her daughter in the village of Tremithousa was arrested on Tuesday. The incident happened at 4pm on Monday, when the ...

Larnaca court on Tuesday remanded a 33-year-old man in police custody in connection with the alleged smuggling of 21 Syrians that arrived at Famagusta on Monday. The man was arrested on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides repeated on Tuesday his disappointment with the outcome of Monday’s talks with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, but said he hoped to announce developments in the ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday morning postponed proceedings in the financial case involving the monastery of Saint Avakoum, after defence lawyers argued that key evidence had not been handed ...

A monument honouring the memory of Tassos Isaak and Solomos Solomou, two men killed during anti-occupation protests in 1996, is set to be erected in Paralimni. The Paralimni-Dherynia municipality announced that ...

Schools, cultural associations and sports clubs across the British bases areas in Cyprus will benefit from a €50,000 grant distributed by the bases under the annual Cyprus community relations fund. The ...

Two former senior police on Tuesday came forward to criticise what they describe as a restrictive and dismissive policy by the current police leadership. They claim recent decisions to deny ...

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides is set to travel to Athens on Tuesday for a brief but significant visit focused on defence and technology. The president will begin his trip with ...