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Political leaders from the Famagusta district on Thursday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to meet with them with the aim of allowing the district to host conferences and other events ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday hit back at opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman over the latter’s statements on the Cyprus problem, insisting that diplomacy on the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday held a telephone conversation with Jordanian King Abdullah II, during which they spoke about the “evolving situation” in the Middle East. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Turkey “has problems with all its neighbours”, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he referenced former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s foreign ...

With more and more people engaging in DIY investment, governments have recognised the need for greater financial literacy that is at relatively low levels in most countries. The August 11 issue ...

None of the police officers involved in a migration raid that ended with a Bangladeshi man’s death committed criminal or disciplinary offences, an independent investigation into the matter has ...

There are “no disagreements with the government regarding fan movement at football matches,” president of Cyprus Football Association (CFA) Giorgos Koumas said on Thursday. Last month, the CFA board of ...

A six-year-old child was left alone on a bus for around an hour after falling asleep on a school trip, police said on Thursday. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou explained ...

Bills aimed to tackle undeclared work are set to be discussed in parliament come September, with unions and the government appearing to be on the same page on clamping down ...

Police spokesman Christos Andreou on Thursday went on the attack against the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) after the police had refused to work at a friendly match which took place ...

The police on Thursday announced they had seized various quantities of cannabis-based products from shops in Paphos earlier in the week. A total of two shops were raided, with police ...

Cyprus’ parliament on Thursday announced that its Greek counterpart had published the 12th and 13th volume of the ‘Cyprus File’. The ‘Cyprus File’ documents the events leading up to and ...

Turkey is to open a military hospital in Kyrenia, as it begins to attempt to replace the 32 across Turkey which were either closed or repurposed following the failed coup d’é...

A 41-year-old was sentenced to 11 years in prison for possession of 7.5kg of cannabis. Police said the sentence was passed on Tuesday. The 41-year-old had been arrested in March in ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with two cases of theft and causing malicious damage to property. The police said the man appears to be involved in two ...

Seasonal low pressure is affecting the area, with the weather remaining mainly fine on Thursday and temperatures not expected to exceed 38C inland. Temperatures along the coast will range from 31...

Two girls, aged 15 and 16, are suspected of stealing a bag from a sunbed on a Larnaca beach on Wednesday. A complaint was received by the police at 1pm on Wednesday ...

The first phase of the Nicosia highway ring road was delivered on Thursday at noon, allowing traffic to flow freely between western Nicosia and the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, ...

Thursday marks 60 years since the bombing of Tillyria in 1964 when, from August 7 to 9, Turkish air forces dropped napalm bombs on villages in the area. President of the community council of ...

Two illegal businesses on Faros beach at Pervolia were demolished by Larnaca’s district office on Wednesday, amid a police presence. A tractor and team from the city’s district ...

Police arrested a 32-year-old resident of Larnaca on Wednesday, under suspicion of burglary. A police statement said that the burglary case was reported to the police by a 65-year-old woman ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) and doctors failed to reach an agreement on Wednesday after a mammoth meeting to discuss pay incentives for state hospital doctors. The meeting between ...

The monks’ legal team for the church’s procedures against them in the infamous Osiou Avakoum scandal demanded on Wednesday that the main whistleblower in the case be deemed unreliable. ...

The government is being sued for migrant pushbacks over the dozens of asylum seekers still stranded in the buffer zone, while the deputy migration minister remained defiant on Wednesday saying ...