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Racially motivated crimes are on the rise in Cyprus, the House human rights committee heard on Monday Deputy police chief Ioannis Georgiou told the committee that there were a total ...

Speaking during an online seminar by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Alexandra Attalides said the situation in the Turkish-controlled north was worsening, with new pressures on women’s freedoms coming directly ...

A five-day seminar on European Union security and defence policy started on Monday in Larnaca. Fifty officials from 12 countries are taking part, including EU member states, Jordan, and the United ...

Hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to voice solidarity with the Palestinian people and denounce both Israel’s military actions in Gaza and the Cyprus government’s silence. The demonstration, ...

The Scientific and Technical Chamber (Etek) on Monday called on Nicosia municipality to rethink its recent decision to partially reopen Makarios avenue to regular traffic. In a statement, Etek urged ...

The municipality of Dromolaxia–Meneou strongly rejected claims made against it on Monday regarding the management of beaches in the Pervolia area, describing the comments as “malicious, defamatory and unfounded”. ...

The generous tax breaks dangled to repatriate ‘talent’ from the Cypriot diaspora concern not only Cypriots but also citizens of other EU countries as well as of non-EU countries, MPs ...

Community nursery workers across Cyprus will stage a 24-hour warning strike on June 3, in protest against the government’s ongoing failure to address serious concerns about the future of public ...

Three major health bodies in Cyprus have expressed deep concern over the government’s handling of a new bill regulating rehabilitation centres. They warn that the process lacks proper consultation ...

The election of a new Paphos bishop is now expected to take place in September, church officials confirmed on Monday. Christakis Efstathiou, theologian and spokesman for the Orthodox Church, told ...

Ali Pilli, a Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ from the UBP, the party to which Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar belonged, and which has endorsed him again ahead of this year’s ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli and ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Monday blamed each other for the overturning of a school bus in the Karpas peninsula village of ...

“Moving back to Cyprus was a total shock!” says Peter Evagorou. “I left when I was 10,” adds the 66-year-old. “So all I remembered was my parents’ stories: chickens in the ...

The government and the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) clashed on Monday over who is to blame after the CFA had informed European football governing body Uefa that all of Cyprus’ ...

Containers carrying mobile desalination plants from the United Arab Emirates started arriving at Moni power plant on Monday afternoon, but in a surprise move one of them will now be ...

It is “surprising” to hear accusations of no consultation, noting that talks with unions began nine months ago and had led to concrete outcomes, Education Minister Athina Michaelidou said on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday ruled out the prospect of a tripartite meeting involving himself, President Nikos Christodoulides and United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin while the latter ...

The continuous flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza cannot be obstructed by anyone and anyone doing so is “deplorable”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Commenting on criticism over his ...

Cyprus’ proposed accession to the Schengen area will first and foremost enhance the country’s security, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Allaying Turkish Cypriot and some Greek Cypriot concerns ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was definite on Monday that he would be meeting UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin again and that all her meetings, especially those in Turkey, would be decisive ...

Themis Portfolio Management announces a series of online auctions taking place throughout the month of June via the e-auctions platform. Through this platform, the company will offer for sale a ...

Paphos’ municipal ‘park of colours’ was inaugurated on Sunday, coinciding with the city’s flower festival. The event began with a procession of floats and a children’s parade in ...

Erhan Yesilirmak, the brother of under fire Turkish Cypriot ruling coalition ‘MP’ Emrah Yesilirmak, jumped seven metres out of a window and broke his ankle while trying to evade arrest ...

A 60-year-old British national was found dead on Sunday in a swimming pool in a tourist complex in Paphos, the police said on Monday. According to the police, the man ...