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The University of Cyprus (UCy) will be forced to halt payments if its supplementary budget is not passed, rector Tassos Christofides said on Friday. During a visit by the house ...

Solar energy parks are sprouting up like mushrooms, House agriculture committee chair Yiannakis Gavriel said on Friday during a session on the issue after it emerged that 47 facilities had been ...

Just when you think you have seen it all, something new appears to prove you wrong. As the summer cultural agenda enters its busy season, exciting events take place all ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday convened a meeting at the presidential palace to discuss the issues facing the operation and implementation of national health scheme Gesy. Alongside Gesy operator Health ...

Interim measures to deal with issues in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties were announced by the interior ministry on Friday, a day after more mismanagement claims surfaced during a ...

The president of the Cyprus Medical Association (CMA) Petros Agathangelou has called on a newspaper to issue an apology after it published, what he said, was a misleading report on ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday that female and male diplomats “now have the same opportunities and the same access to leadership positions” in Cyprus. Even so, speaking at ...

Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis this week stated that direct air connectivity between Cyprus and Kazakhstan will become possible next year. According to a statement from the ministry, ...

Excavations near Hala Sultan Tekke have unearthed tombs containing an array of impressive burial items, including locally produced pottery, ornaments and imported jewellery, according to the antiquities department. It announced ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari on Friday heralded the donation of five new mammography machines by Opap, to be used in the government’s breast detection programme. In a ceremony to ...

Hellenic Bank on Friday released its financial results for the first quarter of 2023, posting a profit of €69.7 million, solidifying a robust performance during this period, while the bank’s transformation ...

Cypriot-flagged ships are the eighth-most trustworthy in the world, according to the secretariat of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU measures the performance of ships bearing the flags ...

A by-election is set to be held in the north on Sunday to fill the a vacant seat in ‘parliament’. The seat has been vacant since last year when former ‘...

Police have confiscated 160 litres of petrol, as well as 107 boxes of cigarettes and 12 boxes of tobacco, from a vehicle on the road between the villages of Kato Moni and Menoiko. ...

Police confirmed on Friday that an operation by the Joint Rescue centre picked up 45 irregular migrants on two boats in the Famagusta region on Thursday evening. The migrants were transported ...

A patient advocacy group which has brought questions before parliament on the verification of doctors’ expertise, came under attack from the head of the Cyprus Medical Council on Friday. The ...

Police confirmed on Friday they have made a 14th arrest in conjunction with forged residence papers. The man, aged 22, joins a growing list of people arrested in connection with the ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari ordered an immediate investigation on Friday after a patient complained they were wrongly diagnosed with metastatic cancer and told they have six months to live. “This ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus does not currently have the capacity to absorb the full amount of the renewable energy it produces, meaning that the excess amount could be transported ...

So much is happening these days, it is at times challenging to keep up. If it is some weekend entertainment and fun you are after, fear not. Plenty is happening ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) has established itself in the country and beyond, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Laying the foundation stone of the new CING ...

The Cyprus Mail recently sat down with Zubr Capital CEO Oleg Khusaenov and partner Nikolay Shestak to discuss the private equity fund’s investment approach, the current set of challenges ...

Distortions and problems in the implementation of the state healthcare system (Gesy) are to be hammered out in a general meeting convened by President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday. The main ...