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The House legal committee on Wednesday discussed a bill which would allow parliament to force ministers, deputy ministers and other officials to appear before house committees. However, a legal service ...

Cyprus’ cooperation with Armenia is “excellent”, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Wednesday. Palmas was speaking after a meeting with his Armenian counterpart Suren Papikyan in the country’s capital ...

Police on Wednesday were on the hunt for two people who assaulted an officer while trying to visit a detained woman in Paphos. Two individuals aged 33 and 37 walked into the ...

A man is suing a doctor and the hospital at which he was treated after undergoing an operation on his left knee when he had intended to undergo an operation ...

Cyprus’ transition to renewable energy sources has thus far been “slow”, environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Wednesday. Speaking at a workshop on the future of water, energy, food, and ...

Two companies have been fined a total of €5,500 for violations of the law on health and safety at work, the Labour Inspection Department announced on Wednesday. The Nicosia district court ...

The upgraded version of the government’s online tax portal, Tax For All, went live on Wednesday, the tax department said. The website had been “interrupted” for five days. However, ...

A protest is being organised outside the British bases in Akrotiri this Sunday, amid escalating violence in the Middle East. In a statement on Wednesday, the Cyprus Peace Council announced ...

The appeals court has halved the length of a prison sentence handed to a young British national employed by the British army, for engaging in sexual acts with an underage ...

Cyprus is “ready to face the complex challenges related to immigration”, Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Wednesday. Speaking in Athens following a meeting with Greek Migration Minister Nikolaos ...

The police currently do not suspect any foul play after a fire broke out at Nicosia’s hippodrome in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A police spokesperson told the ...

One final summer hurrah on the east coast of the island meant we also had to set ourselves up for a night out in the area. And when I say ...

Police on Wednesday are investigating a motorcycle theft involving two men who were arrested overnight and are being held in custody. According to the police, officers on patrol in Nicosia ...

A 69-year-old man died after falling from the roof of his house in the village of Paramythas in Limassol. Police identified the man as Sotiris Chrysanthou, who seems to have ...

A fire which broke out in a car repair workshop in Timi is being investigated on Wednesday. According to the police, the fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon and the ...

The north’s Greek language association (Yuder) chairman Arif Malek on Wednesday called for Greek language lessons to be introduced at high schools in the north. Speaking to newspaper Yeni ...

A man wanted by the German authorities for an investigated case of fraud involving thousands of euros, is to appear before court on Wednesday to begin his extradition procedure. Paphos ...

Famagusta police have released photos of a suspect wanted for an investigated case of burglary and theft from a church. The burglary was committed on September 17 and involves a sum ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos participated in a tripartite meeting with his Greek and Egyptian counterparts in New York on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 79th UN General Assembly. During ...

Britain is moving troops to Cyprus to help its nationals leave Lebanon, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the escalation in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah was pushing the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides discussed Cyprus’ electrical interconnection, among other topics, at a trilateral meeting held between Cyprus, Greece, and France, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting. The ...

The significant geostrategic role of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in view of the latest developments was highlighted by the US Deputy National Security Adviser in ...

Wednesday will be mostly clear with some afternoon clouds. Temperatures will rise to 32C in the interior, and on the south and east coasts, 30C on the remaining coasts, and 26...

By Theodoros Zachariadis Climate change seems to proceed faster than predicted and is developing into a global crisis, as evidenced by prolonged heat waves with extremely high temperatures, large-scale fires, ...