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Cyprus has the fifth highest per capita municipal waste generation in the EU with municipal solid waste, 76.8 per cent of which is landfilled, Cyprus’ statistical service said on Thursday.  In ...

A ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) sailed into Limassol port on Thursday, the first of its kind to dock in Cyprus. “The use of LNG as a marine ...

The finance ministry has approved new campus facilities for Tepak worth about €27 million. The new facilities include buildings for the multimedia and graphic arts department and the school of geotechnical ...

A 49-year-old Swedish man will serve as the prosecution’s key witness against a lawyer and a police officer accused of aiding his escape from a private clinic in Larnaca ...

A landmark ruling by the administrative court in Nicosia, it emerged on Thursday, has overturned a previous decision by the health insurance organisation (OAY), allowing a patient to obtain medication ...

Resolving the Cyprus problem requires that the rule of law, not the rule of force, prevails, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Theodoros Roussopoulos has ...

The city of Larnaca has received the Green City of Cyprus 2024 award, the municipality announced on Thursday, pledging to continue to promote environmentally responsible practices. Larnaca was awarded for the ...

Parents in Kato Pyrgos Tillyrias strongly opposed on Thursday a decision by the ministry of education to ban students from travelling through northern Cyprus to attend events in Nicosia. The ...

The government had secured the foundation for any efforts to resolve the Cyprus issue, which must be carried out within the framework of the UN security council agreement, deputy government ...

President Nikos Christodoulides announced the reduction of VAT for home electricity consumption during his televised address to the nation overnight. During a review of what had been achieved during his ...

Investigations are underway on Thursday into the death of a boy who is alleged to have suffered a fatal fall from a skyscraper in Limassol. Authorities said the 14-year-old was ...

Police confiscated a total of 112 fireworks found in the possession of a 30-year-old man in the Famagusta district. Officers located the stash following a tip on Wednesday afternoon, in the ...

Police arrested a 33-year-old man in Limassol in connection with investigated cases of forgery and other offenses. The man was arrested on Tuesday with two complaints pending against him from ...

Authorities are investigating a fire that broke out in the village of Pano Akourdalia in the Paphos district on Thursday. The fire started at 2.20pm on Wednesday and the Paphos ...

Thursday will be mainly clear with temporarily increased high clouds. Temperatures will rise to 28C inland, 24C on the east coast, 26C on the remaining coasts, and 19C in the ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou was on Wednesday nearing the end of her review of a disciplinary investigation into the first-phase roadworks at Akamas national forest park. The report, submitted in ...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu was on Wednesday re-elected unopposed as secretary-general of the north’s largest political party the UBP, and after securing his re-election to the role called for Cyprus’ two ...

“We are not under anyone’s supervision, like Tatar is with Turkey,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Speaking during a televised interview held to mark the completion of the ...

The European Union’s “white paper on the future of European defence”, which aims to forge a plan for the bloc and the continent at large to bolster its defensive ...

In his latest book, long-time former Cyprus Mail political columnist Christos Panayiotides gives readers “a face-to-face look at the harsh reality” and the opportunity “to seriously contemplate where we want ...

The number of crossings to the north made by Greek Cypriots fell by 15 per cent in the final three months of last year, compared to the same period in 2023, according ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday night gave a long, televised address in which he reviewed and appraised his second year in office, reassuring the public that he has acted with “...

A 28-year-old man was on Sunday sentenced to four years in prison after having been found guilty of arson. The man had set a fire in brushland near the Larnaca ...

Members of parliament on Wednesday expressed their bemusement at the government’s latest bill aimed at regulating traditional Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”. The House legal affairs committee examined the ...