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Parliament has moved to file an objection over the president’s decision to refer the contentious capital statements legislation to the Supreme Constitutional Court, it was reported on Wednesday. The ...

The University of Cyprus on Wednesday announced that it would open up the remaining unfilled places for students starting undergraduate programmes to those who passed international high school examinations. Those ...

A state-of-the-art cable station and offshore submerging infrastructure will be built in Cyprus to enhance digital connectivity in the eastern Mediterranean. The strategic cooperation between Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom ...

A shipment of 12,000 tonnes of diesel is expected to arrive in the north on Wednesday to power the Teknecik power station, as repair work continues on its broken and dysfunctional ...

A 46-year-old jeweller was arrested on Tuesday for accepting gold artefacts stolen from a church on August 17. Two men, aged 47 and 44, are already in custody since August 18 for allegedly selling ...

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I was a student again. You know, out most nights, happy with a few beers and a burger, not too many responsibilities, at least compared ...

Limassol police are investigating an assault and theft involving a 64-year-old man who was allegedly lured to the scene by a young girl, it emerged on Wednesday. According to the ...

A 20-year-old who died in an accident on a Famagusta road when his car collided with an oncoming car, has been named as Paul Julius, a Nigerian national and football ...

Police are investigating a case of illegal slaughter of goats in Nicosia on Wednesday. The suspected premises were visited by the state veterinary services on Tuesday in collaboration police to ...

Two minors were hit by a car and injured while riding a bicycle in Paphos, police reported on Wednesday. According to the police, the incident happened at 9.30pm on Monday ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for the kiosk robbery in Limassol. According to the police, the robbery was committed overnight at 11.35pm and the complainant reported that the ...

The district self-governance organisations (EOAs) must be autonomous and self-financed to be effective, said the President of the Nicosia EOA, Constantinos Yorkadjis, on Wednesday. “If they are not truly independent, ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Wednesday for high temperatures, in effect from 11am until 4pm. The day will be sunny and windy with some low clouds at ...

Should Cyprus’ Costas Kadis be confirmed as EU commissioner, he’d receive a generous financial package that includes a host of perks including hotel room service. It transpired on Monday ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) says the aim of all involved in the competitive electricity market was to contribute to the lowest possible price of electricity for all consumers, ...

There is a “positive climate” in discussions with trade unions for the renewal of the collective agreement in the hotel industry, Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) director general Philokypros Roussounides said ...

A research vessel conducting surveys of the seabed for the proposed electricity cable linking Greece and Cyprus was this week being monitored at a distance by the Turkish navy, but ...

The number of migrants stranded in the buffer zone has reached 86, as arrivals continue unabated to the Green Line without access to asylum proceedings, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said ...

Up to 100,000 people could be evacuated from Lebanon through Cyprus, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday, with the government preparing for “all possible scenarios”. “It will not be an ...

Environmentalists on Tuesday called for “aerial intervention” by way of spraying pine trees with pesticides to save them from pine processionary caterpillars, which are known to damage and even kill ...

New Turkish ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim on Tuesday pledged to “try my best to bring the Turkish Cypriot people and Turkish citizens living here to the sunlit ...

A new head of the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) was appointed on Tuesday after the former chairman passed away. The new chairman of Defa is Giorgos Ashikalis. He replaces ...

Three tobacco busts were made by the customs department last week, which saw 174 cartons of 200 cigarettes each and over 12kg of rolling tobacco, as well as a packet of rolling ...

A 25-year-old man charged with misusing Greek Cypriot property in the north was released on €92,000 bail on Tuesday. He appeared before Nicosia district court in the morning, which referred the ...