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After years of steady decline in its support, the left-wing party Akel has decided it needs to broaden its appeal. Its traditional support-base which was force-fed the Soviet communist ideal ...

The highly polluting Dhekelia power plant must be upgraded because it is “very important” for the state, Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou said on Friday. His statements are in line with ...

Akel party leader Stefanos Stefanou said on Friday that it wishes to build a social alliance to include non-members and give those outside the party a voice. Stefanou said that ...

Conclusions in draft resolution of the EU Council on the Cyprus problem and EU-Turkey relations were accepted without changes on Friday, a day after they circulated. On Thursday, President Nikos ...

Israeli intelligence services (Mossad) have located and arrested the man behind the thwarted terrorist attack against an Israeli businessman on the island. The man in question, Youssef Shihabazi Abasalilou, was ...

The two men accused of a double murder in Limassol were charged with premeditated murder on Friday morning and remanded in custody for seven days. The pair appeared in court ...

It was encouraging to hear Finance Minister Makis Keravnos defending the government’s decision to end the subsidy of all electricity bills and the reduction of the consumer tax on ...

The junior ministry of research and innovation has no staff in place to prevent a cyberattack, it emerged on Thursday at the House audit committee. The statements came from the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is satisfied by the paragraph about the Cyprus problem in the draft conclusions of the European Council, which is holding its summit meeting on Thursday. In relation ...

The European Commission’s annual report on the implementation of the Green Line Regulation found that trade was up by 138 per cent and almost six million crossings took place. The ...

National guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s family is determined to open private criminal proceedings against those who they deem responsible for covering up his death in 2005, lawyer Christos Triantafyllides told the ...

David Hunter suffocating his wife was an act of love and mercy, his defence told court on Thursday, while the prosecution sought to tear down the argument, saying Hunter had ...

Disy and Akel MPs reacted on Thursday to the scrapping of relief measures for fuel and electricity, arguing that the summer months were the worst possible time to end the ...

Two men, aged 54 and 49, have been remanded in custody on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death in Limassol in the early hours of Thursday morning. The ...

Organic crops and livestock in Cyprus have recorded a huge growth in 2020 compared to 10 years ago, according to the results of the census of agricultural and livestock holdings published by ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides’ decision to take no more action in the case of the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou sparked a rather hostile reaction, which was understandable, in the ...

The House institutions committee agreed on Wednesday that high-level civil servants and people applying for tenders should file a capital statement (pothen esches). In his statements after the end of ...

Taking into account the “long standing challenges” Cyprus faces, the government on Wednesday announced seven measures to coordinate matters related to sanctions, including a rebranding campaign both at home and ...

By Andria Kades and Iole Damaskinos Fuel subsidies will be scrapped but electricity bill subsidies will continue albeit more targeted towards vulnerable groups, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. The measure ...

Following the attorney-general’s announcement that no evidence of criminal wrongdoing has come up in the case of the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, his mother Andriana said they ...

By Efi Xanthou On Friday, June 23, the House of Representatives hosted a seminar presenting part of the Fit for 55 EU package, essentially the EU’s target of reducing net greenhouse ...

Petrol station owners blocked Nicosia roads with tankers on Tuesday to protest the loss of business from those smuggling fuel from the north. They seem to have adjusted their rhetoric. ...

No evidence of criminal wrongdoing has come up in the case of the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, and therefore the state will be taking no more action, the ...

The tourism industry faces “important environmental and economic challenges ahead,” President Nikos Christodoulides warned on Tuesday addressing the Cyprus Hoteliers’ Association’s (Pasyxe) general assembly in Nicosia. The current world ...