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Lawmakers on Tuesday complained that the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) is being mismanaged and operates with subpar transparency, as the organisation sought parliament’s nod for its 2024 budget. The 2024 ...

The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed the need for the government to set up a labour compensation fund. “We have sent a request to the labour minister, to determine ...

A recent judgment of the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) could pave the way for thousands of civil servants on fixed-term employment to become permanent workers, Isotita union said ...

The Nicosia military court acquitted the sole defendant in the case concerning the accident that saw 27-year-old Corporal Natali Neophytou die while on military duty, it emerged on Tuesday. The ...

Microplastics, including bottle caps and a Halloween toy, were found in the stomachs of 135 loggerhead turtles washed up or killed on the shores of northern Cyprus, research showed on Tuesday. ...

A 60-year-old Limassol resident has lost €55,000 in an online scam, police said on Tuesday. According to the police report, the man made a complaint to Limassol CID that between 2020 and 2021, ...

Larnaca district court on Tuesday handed a seven-year prison sentence to a 30-year-old man found guilty of child sexual abuse. A police report said that “according to the evidence gathered ...

Two men suspected of people smuggling were remanded for eight days on Tuesday by the Famagusta District Court. The two men, 41 and 23, were found on a sixth boat of migrants ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Holguin on Saturday, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. The meeting follows one that ...

Wildfire management decisions were made on Tuesday during a high level meeting at the presidential palace ahead of the summer season, when fires increase. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the ...

A teen has contracted measles and is in hospital at Limassol general, it emerged on Tuesday, hours after two toddlers with the disease were released after completing treatment. According to ...

The art of modern storytelling: SARA DOUEDARI speaks a digital content creator in Cyprus about creating a narrative In today’s digital age, where social media platforms have turned everyone ...

The municipality of Paphos has installed closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance to mitigate future instances of damage at the Park of Colours, it announced on Tuesday. The decision follows numerous complaints ...

Elam and an ex-police chief were linked to the ongoing church scandal involving suspected money extortion and sex between monks at the Osios Avakoum monastery on Tuesday. It emerged that ...

At its recent annual general meeting the Greek Cypriot Brotherhood approved a resolution to the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the Cyprus issue, it announced on Tuesday. The resolution ...

By Richard Boxall The new cricket season had its first classic match when MSN Punjab Lions held on for a 3-run win over Sri Lankans at Ypsonas in the BAOFinancial ...

A group exhibition exploring the otherworldly, the magical and the dreamy in art is set to open this month in Nicosia. Titled Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldly in Painting and ...

In today’s episode, the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Holguin said “a lot of ideas” had been raised at her meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. Elsewhere, the ecclesiastical ...

Police on Tuesday are investigating a fire which broke out in a car the early hours of Tuesday in Paphos. According to police, at 3.30am officers received the information about ...

The humanitarian aid ship Open Arms finally set sail on Tuesday accompanied by another vessel, inaugurating the operation of the ‘Amalthea’ Larnaca to Gaza sea corridor. President Nikos Christodoulides and ...

A 52-year-old man, named as Panayiotis Andreou, lost his life in an accident that occurred shortly after midnight on Monday in Nicosia. The man had been riding his motorbike on ...

Tuesday will be clear and mild with temperatures rising to 23C inland, 22C on the coast, and 16C in the higher mountains. Winds will be mainly north- to south-easterly, light ...

University of Leicester scientists have rediscovered 46 ancient sites with uncovered evidence of quarries and tombs located within the Dhekelia British military base in Cyprus. Archaeologists from the UK’s Defence ...

A total of 116 irregular migrants were brought ashore aboard three boats on Monday, with three more boats still at sea. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), a total of ...