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President Nikos Christodoulides will meet with Chinese ambassador Liu Yantao on Monday to discuss the ongoing and escalating spat between Chinese-led construction firm CPP-Metron Consortium Ltd (CMC) and Natural Gas ...

Chinese-led construction firm CPP-Metron Consortium Ltd (CMC) has hit back at Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) in the latest round of their ongoing spat regarding the under-construction liquefied natural gas (...

A total of 310 pallets of humanitarian aid were unloaded from ships onto the temporary jetty off the coast of Gaza on the first day of its operation on Friday, according ...

A waiter stabbed a customer during a dispute over the customer’s bill at a restaurant in Karavas on Friday evening. The incident took place at around 11.30pm, with the ...

People should “not turn their backs on the electoral process”, chief electoral officer Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) with three weeks to go ...

Cyprus was given a score of just 34 per cent for the human rights situation and living standards of its LGBT population. The score was published by LGBT advocacy group Ilga-Europe, ...

Cyprus may have been inhabited long before was previously thought, according to a new study. The study, carried out by researchers at the Flinders University in the Australian city of ...

The 23-year-old driver of a car which ran a 77-year-old woman over and killed her was remanded in custody for four days on Saturday. The incident had taken place on ...

Police in Limassol arrested a 26-year-old man on Friday night, three months after he had allegedly attacked someone, causing serious bodily harm. They described the man’s arrest as “incidental”, ...

The police said on Saturday they are conducting “intensive investigations” into a hooligan tit-for-tat which took place on Thursday night in Limassol. CCTV footage from local properties is being reviewed ...

Agnieszka Rakoczy meets DJ, artist, former hotel manager, political analyst and Cyprus expert Mete Hatay, and is not at all surprised to learn he reads four books at a time ...

The harmonised inflation rate in Cyprus increased by 2.1 per cent in April 2024 compared to the same period the previous year, according to the Cyprus Statistical Service. Official data showed that ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Friday said that tourist arrivals for the first four months of 2024 indicate that the island can achieve its goals for the year, despite ...

The situation for prisoners has deteriorated since 2017, while the Nicosia central prisons are “bursting at the seams”, an anti-torture report published on Friday revealed. Concerns were raised in the Council ...

The government is investing in the European Union to achieve a final resolution of the Cyprus problem, especially as the 50th anniversary of the Turkish occupation approaches, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

A couple of hundred people turned out for the north’s annual LGBT pride parade on Friday evening. The parade coincided with the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, ...

The representative of the Turkish Cypriots residing in Limassol and head of the Tzentit mosque Ayhan Mehmet on Thursday said the acts of vandalism carried out at the Albanian mosque ...

Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) on Friday slammed what it called the “unfortunate and desperate attempt” by the consortium constructing the beleaguered natural gas terminal at Vasiliko to “mislead public ...

Aid from the UK reached Gaza through the Cyprus maritime corridor, British Foreign Secretary said in on post on X on Friday. “This is a major step forward,” Cameron said. “...

A fire that broke out around 4pm in Liopetri, in the Famagusta district, was put out after 45 minutes, not before it burned one hectare of unharvested crops and wild vegetation. ...

The Legal Service on Friday questioned the timing behind the anti-corruption authority’s announcement on the divide surrounding former drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos. Sticking to its guns, the Legal ...

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides on Friday morning  filed opposition proceedings against the legal service’s motion to have him suspended from his post. The first hearing will take place on Thursday. ...

The Cyprus chapter of Diplomats for Equality on Friday issued a joint statement from 26 diplomatic missions operating in Cyprus to mark the upcoming Pride Month and the 2024 International Day Against ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Friday said that tourist arrivals for the first four months of 2024 indicate that the island can achieve its goals for the year, despite ...