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MPs on Monday wrapped up discussion of a government bill that would end the hiring freeze on vacancies for full-time jobs in the broader public sector – a policy instituted in 2013 ...

An autopsy on the body of a woman found dead by her daughter on Saturday night indicates electrocution. The 60-year-old was found by her daughter in the bathroom of her ...

They go from Kolossi to Aphrodite’s Rock, the House of Dionysus to The Tombs of the Kings. There are oohs and ahhs. A few quick snaps for the relatives – ...

After a sharply criticised protest on Sunday the hunters’ association (KEKK) said they were satisfied after their meeting with Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday afternoon. KEKK-head Nicholas Prodromou said ...

If you have any sort of social media presence, you have been bombarded with comments and posts about the gripping Netflix drama Adolescence, the story of 13-year-old Jamie, a British ...

Dozens of patients suffering from diabetes found themselves unable to access their medications due to a double failure of the health services’ online system which continues to be unreliable for ...

Larnaca port dockers went on a 24-hour warning strike on Monday to protest over the unloading procedures at the port. The workers blocked the entrance and exit of the port ...

Eighty-one tuberculosis cases were reported in Cyprus in 2023 with an incidence rate of 8.8 per 100,000 population. In the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day on Monday, the health ministry was raising awareness ...

Highlighting the appeal of chess for all, visiting Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand last week played against 19 children at the same time during an exhibition event in Nicosia. “Chess is like ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki was remanded in custody until his new court hearing that was rescheduled to April 2 after he claimed sickness and did not appear in court on ...

AI technology will be used from Monday to improve the ‘digital citizen’ app, so it can answer a wide range of questions posed by the public. The ‘digital citizen’ app ...

After being displayed in Madrid and Vienna, the photographic exhibition ‘ELLE: Woman in Antiquity’ opened at the Museum of Byzantine Civilisation in Thessaloniki 10 days ago. The exhibition, which opened on ...

Larnaca hospital emergency department staff went on a spontaneous one-hour work stoppage on Monday at 9am to protest another incident of verbal abuse of a nurse. Nurses’ union Pasyno threatened ...

Police are on Monday investigating a drug case in Limassol, involving cannabis. A 24-year-old man was arrested for the case on Sunday after 413 grams of the drug and €13,290 in cash ...

An accident on a dirt road in Larnaca turned fatal on Sunday, leading to the death of a 51-year-old Romanian national, named as George Remus Strunoiou. Police received information at 2.40...

A light magnitude earthquake, meausring 3.2 on the Richter scale, hit 18.9 km northwest of Limassol on Monday morning. It was reported to have struck at 8.04 am local time at a shallow ...

Monday will be mainly clear with temperatures rising to 24C inland, 22C on the coast, and 14C in the higher mountains. Light dust is expected. Winds will initially be variable ...

The story goes like this: moths laying eggs in hanging weblike nests that drop to the ground when they have served their purpose, larva hatching out and eating pines trees ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou was traveling to Brussels on Sunday, for the European Union’s Council of Ministers for Agriculture and Fisheries on Monday. After the conclusion of the Agriculture ...

Cyprus’ Champion Elena Kulichenko won the 7th place in the women’s high jump final at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, the Cyprus Amateur Association of Athletics (...

Drought and climate pressure in Cyprus make water a key issue, Commissioner for the Environment and Animal Welfare, Antonia Theodosiou, said on Saturday evening. She noted that Cyprus is among ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will meet on April 2, CNA reported on Sunday. This will be their first meeting after the Geneva informal meeting on Cyprus ...

A 69-year-old woman was found dead in her bathtub on Sunday morning in Paphos. Her daughter found her and authorities believe it may have been electrocution. First responders who tried ...

Only 13.5 per cent of tourist units in Cyprus have secured the necessary permits ahead of the summer season, sparking growing concern over delays in the licensing process. With the April 20, 2025 ...