Cyprus

More than 1,500 people have so far benefited from special housing schemes targeted at rural and mountain areas, the government said on Thursday. The schemes are designed to help young people ...

Since last year, around 50 specially-trained professionals have been registered with ‘Family Mediation’, a new service created to provide a more human-centred rather than legalistic recourse for families in dispute. Justice ...

Announcements are expected soon from the EU that will reflect the increased interest that exists in helping to resolve the Cyprus issue, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. The president ...

A rescue operation was launched on Thursday at 10.42am when a diver was reported to be presenting mild symptoms of decompression sickness. The diving accident happened in the Zinovia shipwreck ...

Larnaca’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture for 2030 was presented by the city’s mayor Andreas Vyras at a conference organised by the ‘Culture Next’ network ...

Nicosia laboratory Pedieos IVF Centre, which also serves Aphrodite Egg Bank, has been awarded prestigious accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), recognised as the global gold standard for ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday arrived in Brussels where migration was set to dominate the European Union summit. The hottest discussion was expected to centre on how to deal with ...

The import of potatoes from abroad does not reflect a shortage in Cyprus, but rather the rising prices that are driving up imports, according to the agriculture ministry. Potato farmers ...

Cyprus recorded the second-best child poverty rates in the EU for 2023, slightly lower than first-place Slovenia, Deputy Welfare Minister Marilena Evangelou said on Thursday. Addressing a conference in Nicosia on ...

By Karen Taylor A look at the results from the recent Olympic Games in Paris is enough to understand the importance of sport to life in China – second in the ...

Cyprus recorded the highest number of lawyers per capita but one of the longest delays in resolving cases according to a new Council of Europe (CoE) report released on Wednesday. ...

All women born in 2002 and all men born in 1970, citizens of the Republic living in the south, are called to join the Civil Defence by registering at their local Civil ...

Police said on Thursday that they are closely investigating the recent surge in attacks on mostly third country delivery drivers. “These victims are hardworking individuals in Cyprus, simply trying to ...

Cyprus police and the British bases have completed a week-long training course on addressing a hostage crisis, aimed at making Cyprus safer. The Cyprus police hostage negotiators’ refresher training took ...

Pogo women’s group on Thursday slammed what it called an inadequate sentence after a teacher was jailed for 4.5 years for sexually abusing his students. “Sexual offences against underage girls ...

The eight people arrested in connection with an alleged terrorist financing network in Cyprus have been released, police confirmed on Tuesday, after failing to secure sufficient evidence to support the ...

Two suspects, aged 21 and 28, are expected to appear before a court at a date yet to be set in connection with the explosion of a bomb near a car belonging ...

There is intense concern over ongoing unacceptable hold ups with the mooted Paphos to Polis Chrysochous road, Mayor Yiotis Papachristofis said on Wednesday. Papachristofi requested an urgent meeting with Transport ...

A formal process on the Cyprus problem can only begin with the confirmation of sovereign equality and equal international status, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Wednesday during a ...

Efforts are underway to resolve the issue of trapped buyers, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday at the House legal affairs committee. Presenting a solution, he explained around 50 per ...

The 16 European Union countries participating in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) believe that the rules of engagement need to be made more effective, the Italian defence ministry said ...

There is a glaring gap in training and security protocols for the prison service and police officers, which became all the more apparent after convict Doros Theofanous last month escaped ...

All eyes are fixed on whether the two leaders in Cyprus will be willing and able to engage sufficiently to allow an informal five-party meeting with the three guarantor powers ...

Fees and entrance criteria for foreign language undergraduate programmes to be offered in public universities remain a thorny issue in a new updated bill presented by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou. ...