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Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday called for the north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak)’s chairman Turgay Avci to resign. Scandal has engulfed the north’s higher ...

Two people aged 33 and 27 were remanded for eight days on Wednesday after they were arrested to facilitate police investigations into a case involving the attempted illegal entry of a total ...

In a roving oncologist, THEO PANAYIDES finds a socially conscious doctor who believes a positive mindset can help fight the bad vibes and worse of his days “I had a ...

Police on Wednesday are investigating a car fire in a residential area of Pissouri in Limassol, which completely destroyed the vehicle. According to the police press office spokesman, the fire ...

Motivational stories, inspiring speeches and a world of ideas are coming to Limassol this month as a new event takes place. Set against the backdrop of the old port of ...

In today’s episode, the humanitarian aid ship Open Arms finally set sail from Larnaca for Gaza. Meanwhile, President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the UN Secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria ...

Paphos police proceeded to arrest a person for a case of arson set in the early hours of Tuesday in a vehicle parked in a garage in the industrial area ...

Two men aged 53 were remanded on Wednesday for committing car arson in Paphos. Police and fire fighters in Paphos attributed a fire that broke out in a vehicle owned by ...

A teleconference of all partners in the initiative for the maritime humanitarian corridor to Gaza is taking place on Wednesday. President Nikos Christodoulides announced the meeting, to be attended by ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old man for an investigated case of illegal stay in the Republic and working without a permit. According to police, the man was allegedly in ...

A 43-year-old man has been arrested on Wednesday in connection with the arson of two cars parked at a petrol station in Nicosia. The cars were parked on Makarios Avenue ...

Wednesday will be mostly clear with temporarily increased clouds. Temperatures will rise to 24C in the interior, 23C on the southeast coast, 21C on the west coast, 22C on the ...

As bad news on the bird trapping front made the headlines again recently, angry calls for nature lovers to “Boycott Cyprus!” flooded social media. Speaking as a veteran of the ...

Everything that needs to be done regarding the ongoing church scandal involving the Osios Avakoum monastery is being done, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters after an ...

This week could prove critical for the development of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project at Vasiliko as Energy Minister George Papanastasiou prepares to meet with officials from CPP-Metron ...

MPs heard on Tuesday that out of some 230,000 registered companies, so far only 140,000 have updated their records regarding their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), the rest facing hefty fines if they ...

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 ...