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President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday asked American multinational technology company Amazon to “participate substantially in Cyprus’ digital ecosystem”. Speaking after a meeting between Christodoulides and Amazon’s senior vice president ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke of how Cyprus can become an “emerging hub” for artificial intelligence on Tuesday. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said after a meeting between Christodoulides and OpenAI’s ...

A 78-year-old man crashed his car through a barber shop’s front door in Morphou on Monday evening, with his car coming to a halt inside the shop. According to ...

A new list of harsher sentences for crimes against animals appeared in the north’s official gazette, paving the way for those found guilty of crimes against animals to receive ...

There will be heightened levels of dust in the air on Tuesday, with the skies above set to be cloudy, and light rain possible in some parts. The skies are ...

CCTV cameras must be installed to “serve specific and legitimate purposes, in moderation, and must not become big brother”, data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Monday. She refuted ...

Aquaculture production in the EU in 2023 reached almost 1.1 million tonnes of live weight in fish, molluscs, algae and crustaceans, with Spain, France and Greece leading among EU member states, according ...

Investigations were ongoing on Monday into an attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini where they were living, ...

Council of Europe (CoE) commissioner for human rights Michael O’Flaherty said on Monday that his office intended to carry out an in-depth investigation into the human rights situation in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is heading to San Francisco, California, where he will promote Cyprus as a regional technology and innovation hub during meetings in Silicon Valley. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

A 17-year-old from Nicosia was arrested on Monday afternoon to facilitate investigations regarding malicious damage to public property in Paphos. The police said a person had been spray painting slogans ...

Stavros Papadouris has been elected new president of Cyprus’ Green party. In the elections that took place on Sunday afternoon in the framework of the party’s congress, Papadouris received 71.72 ...

An agreement with Chevron for the exploitation of the Aphrodite field is of “strategic importance” and a “priority”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Christodoulides met with Chevron CEO Mike ...

One in five children fall victim to abuse and one in six are facing mental problems, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. Oelmek’s representative Christos Tziortas said “...

The Christodoula march to raise awareness for cancer has entered its 50th year and, to symbolise its journey through the decades, has incorporated a symbolic suitcase to be passed from ...

Following concerns over illegal refreshment kiosks, government officials and ecological organisations revisited the Akamas area to determine whether there was compliance with their ruled termination on Monday. The tour was ...

Demolition work on the Larnaca building near which the rare ancient mosaics depicting the labours of Hercules were discovered in 2016 will start on Tuesday, Larnaca municipality announced on Monday. The ...

Data published on Monday captured the scale of traffic congestion on the main roads of the island, with the Limassol bypass shown to be the busiest. Citing numbers obtained from ...

The Forestry Department initially violated the terms of an environmental assessment for roadworks in Akamas natural reserve and now is refusing to accept them, four organisations said on Monday. Terra ...

Equal and quality access to healthcare services are a fundamental human right for all residents, Health Minister Michael Damianos said in his speech on World Health Day on Monday. Damianos ...

The story of Cyprus isn’t just written on this island. It’s written wherever Cypriots call home. Often, that means the diaspora. The emigrants who – in a new land – ...

Year 9 students from The International School of Paphos, as part of the Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) Programme, an international network and platform for young people to investigate, research ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Hasan Tosunoglu on Monday resigned from the north’s ‘parliament’. His resignation comes after a request was filed for his ‘parliamentary’ immunity against prosecution to be lifted ...

A senior functionary at the Audit Office has earned €260,000 since late 2019 when he was put on paid suspension after reveals that he and others had fraudulently established a company, media ...