Cyprus

By Iole Damaskinos, Nick Theodoulou, Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Cyprus’ proposal for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to the Gaza strip is being received positively, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Two whole weeks are dedicated to the German language this month as the Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus have prepared a packed agenda with events for ...

Over 40 per cent of registered employees in the north are third country nationals, ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Tuesday. He said that as of August, there are 116,970 people registered ...

A contract was signed on Tuesday for the demolition of five condemned apartment blocks in the refugee estates in Latsia. They will be demolished within the scope of the government’...

Larnaca District Court issued a €6,000 fine on Tuesday after the fatal injury of a man at work. According to the labour inspection department, Cablenet Communications Systems Ltd was fined after ...

Israel is conducting a just war which must be the last, in which Hamas must be eradicated, Israel’s ambassador to Cyprus Oren Anolik told the House foreign affairs committee ...

Young people in Cyprus are at the highest risk of experiencing severe material and social deprivation, state statistical service Cystat said on Tuesday. Their figures showed that in 2022, a total ...

The north’s ‘state’ budget for 2024 will be set at just over 78.7 billion TL (€2.6bn), ‘finance minister’ Ozdemir Berova said on Tuesday. Berova was speaking to public broadcaster BRT, and ...

The remains of a total of 14 people have been recovered so far this year in excavations carried out by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it announced on Tuesday. According ...

The sports ethics committee’s report on the potential squandering of public money by the Olympic Committee (KOE) has been handed over to the attorney general’s office, it emerged ...

As the third edition of Larnaca Biennale runs until the end of November, it continues to examine the parameters of its theme Home Away from Home through different lenses. The ...

The government is working towards making Cyprus energy independent, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. “The autonomy of a state is not only related with its finds and its ...

Household debt in Cyprus has fallen to 69 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a report released on Tuesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), for ...

The fourth annual Flight of Love for children with autism is set to take place on Wednesday, with 160 passengers from all around Cyprus. The event is a collaboration between the ...

Two women suffered broken bones after jumping from an apartment balcony during a police drugs raid in Kyrenia on Monday night. Five women, aged between 23 and 27, were inside the apartment ...

The 24-hour low-wage civil servants’ strike is set to go ahead on Wednesday, despite its trade union Pasydy insisting on continuing its dialogue with the finance ministry. Low-wage civil servants ...

Electricity tariffs in the north are set to increase by a third from Wednesday, following an announcement from north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek. For residential properties paying the flat-rate tariff, ...

Protecting the economy and safeguarding human-centred sustainable development should be at the forefront of economic policy, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Tuesday while speaking at a forum on the ...

The man gunned down and murdered in broad daylight in Limassol on Monday had been struck by 10 bullets a post mortem showed on Tuesday after police said they were worried ...

New zero VAT relief measures go into action from Wednesday, the tax department reminded the public on Tuesday. The announced measure covers a list of items already previously assigned at ...

By Darcie Panayiotou The Cyprus national rugby team are set to take on Malta in Pool D of Rugby Europe’s Rugby XV Conference 2023-2024 on Saturday at the Hibernians ...

By Richard Boxall Everest pulled off the result of the day in the Cyprus T20 League when they beat Napa Royal Kings by 60 runs at Ypsonas cricket ground. The Kings ...

The Music in the Mountains event series does exactly what it says –brings music events to mountains around Cyprus. This November, three nights of music by local artists are planned ...

In today’s episode, Yermasogia awoke to a shocking gangster-like execution after a 55-year-old man was gunned down by two hooded attackers firing from a Kalashnikov type rifle and a ...