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The Defence ministry aims to increase military expenditure to 2 per cent of GDP by 2028, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas told the House finance committee on Friday. To work towards this goal, ...

Cement workers protested outside the labour ministry on Friday over a prolonged dispute that has brought the construction industry to a halt. Workers have been on strike for two weeks ...

The hoteliers’ association (Pasyxe) on Friday rejected the labour minister’s mediation proposal as they could not agree on it. Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou’s proposal did not satisfy some ...

Cyprus considers arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as binding in principle, a government source told Reuters on Friday. The ICC on Thursday issued arrest warrants against ...

Higher education cannot be internationalised if state universities are not given a chance to offer bachelor’s degrees in foreign languages, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday. Though some ...

Police on Friday warned people to be wary of a new scam on WhatsApp. They said the scam involved people being called by scammers who claim to be police officers. ...

It is “inconceivable and unacceptable” for trade unions to use patient health and safety as a tool to force their employers to accept their demands, the Cyprus Federation of Patients’ ...

A ring-shaped vessel of the Late Bronze Age of Cypriot origin was repatriated from Paris on November 1, the department of antiquities said on Friday. The antiquity was located by the ...

Paphos police arrested a 37-year-old woman on Thursday for a case of assault against a police officer, resisting lawful arrest and impersonation. According police, the woman of African descent was ...

The severe weather overnight lead to earth slides, rockfalls and wood obstructing Limassol roads on Friday, while authorities are busy clearing up the network. Police announced that the Limassol-Agros road ...

Outgoing EU High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell is in Cyprus on Friday and Saturday to meet Israeli and Palestinian civil society organisations, according to a ...

An 84-year-old man involved in a traffic accident in Limassol was on Friday in hospital in serious condition. He was injured on Thursday morning around 11am while riding his motorcycle ...

Friday will be partly cloudy with rains and isolated storms expected, initially on the coast and later spreading to the rest of the island. Hail is also forecast. Temperatures will ...

The trial hearings into financial aspect of the Avakoum monastery scandal, which was originally scheduled for Thursday, have been postponed to December 19. The hearings for archimandrites Nektarios Georgiou and Porfyrios ...

The debate over installing CCTV cameras in public spaces was discussed at the House legal committee on Wednesday, highlighting the always-tricky balance between security and privacy. At the House, proponents ...

The House on Thursday passed an amendment to a law that significantly reduces the fines imposed on corporate entities for not declaring their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) on time. Under ...

Cyprus has received a total of €126 million net in funds from the EU for 2023 and is set to gain much more by 2027, Cypriot member of the European Court of Auditors (...

The police force on Thursday received a gift in the form a surveillance drone which it said it would put to use immediately. Equipped with state-of-the-art thermal cameras, the drone ...

ExxonMobil will drill a well offshore Cyprus in January in its pursuit of natural gas, a senior executive said on Thursday at an energy and geopolitics event in Nicosia. “We’...

Road transport department director Andreas Nikiforou on Thursday told the House transport committee about the crimes committed by children on school buses. One child, he said, had brought a plastic ...

The rectors of Cyprus’ two public universities, the University of Cyprus’ Tasos Christofides and the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak)’s Panayiotis Zaphiris, on Thursday called for the “immediate passage ...

The government is “ready” to cooperate with parliament to find a solution to the issue of cars with faulty airbags remaining on Cyprus’ roads, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on ...

“There is no diversity of voices” in the north’s media, opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu said on Wednesday night. He was speaking at the north’s ‘parliamentary’ finance ...

State health services Okypy will be submitting a new proposal by Monday regarding the millions of euros in incentives state hospital doctors are demanding, with doctors saying they would not ...