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A solidarity event in support on Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Mustafa Hurben was set to take place on Saturday at the Ledra St crossing point in Nicosia. “By refusing to ...

A yellow weather warning was in effect until Saturday noon for rain and isolated thunderstorms. Issued by the met department, the warning was valid from 5pm on Friday until 12pm ...

More than half a million Cypriots live abroad. Thousands of expats once called this island home. Alix Norman asks why they would or wouldn’t return for good There’s ...

Two artistic events coming up in Paphos shortly are inviting the public to attend. Ex Artis Cultural Association organises the first, a public art installation. On the morning of January 20 ...

Cyprus has one of the largest proportion of refugees from Ukraine who have been granted temporary protection status since the Russian invasion, with 20.7 people per thousand population, according to data ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos had a call with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Friday, to discuss “ongoing developments in the region” A brief post on Cyprus’ foreign ministry account ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos was in Slovenia on Friday discussing the Cyprus problem and bilateral relations with his counterpart Tanja Fajon. During a press conference, Fajon said she supports an ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou will inform the Culture and Education Committee of the EU parliament on issues faced by Greek Cypriot schools in the north in Rizokarpaso. According to an ...

The Greens on Friday called for a complete re-design of the Akamas plan, saying a reversal of the controversial road works does not go far enough in protecting the national ...

UK Cypriot Laura Maria Sone-Demetrious, 28, was killed earlier in the week, when she was hit by a car while walking her dogs it emerged on Friday, after the family launched ...

The Cyprus bar association is investigating some of its members and a company associated with them, believed to be involved in buying and selling of property in the north, it ...

The system for registering ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) at the Registrar of Companies, will allow companies to post this information without paying the fines imposed on January 1 for failing to ...

The north’s minimum wage was raised to a net figure of 24,000TL on Friday, following a unanimous decision of its minimum wage determination commission. The new minimum wage is ...

The newly-appointed Commissioner for the Environment, Antonia Theodosiou, acknowledged the importance of the Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative (CSTI) and its significance to the tourism industry. Addressing the 16th Annual General ...

The state and the private sector are joining forces to try and bridge the gaps in the jobs market in the IT sector with a targeted programme to attract and ...

Cyprus’ innovation ecosystem boasts over 400 startups and innovative businesses, more than 2500 researchers, and over 4000 entrepreneurs, said Demetris Skourides, the chief scientist of the Research and Innovation Foundation. “These numbers demonstrate ...

The interior ministry’s proposal for a radical revision of the urban planning and building permit process, specifically for low-risk developments such as residences and small apartment buildings, has garnered ...

The north “must limit and stop” its handing out of ‘citizenships’, ‘MP’ and university owner Serhat Akpinar told the Cyprus Mail. Akpinar, a senior member of ruling coalition party the ...

Political groups in Cyprus on Friday condemned the United Kingdom’s use of its Akrotiri base in Cyprus to bomb Yemen. In the early hours of Friday, the British government ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Friday denied any involvement in the kidnapping in the Republic of two men who are suspected of murder. On Wednesday, police in the Republic had ...

Thirty people were nabbed while driving without licence or insurance during a police clampdown in Limassol on Thursday. In total, over 140 drivers were caught for various offences, police said. Twenty ...

Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia remains 95 per cent occupied with young patients suffering from respiratory infections, flu and some Covid 19, but mainly with RSV, the director of the paediatric ...

Two bakery workers narrowly escaped injury in the early hours of Friday at a shop in Strovolos in Nicosia when an explosion occurred on the premises, police said. Investigations were ...

Works of the Turkish army near Denia remain outside the buffer zone, the foreign ministry said on Friday, however the feeling of security of residents in the area has raised. ...