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The government on Thursday said it is gearing up to tackle the migration crisis, with funding aimed at expanding reception centres, speeding up asylum seeker applications, and increasing voluntary returns ...

Moving government servers damaged by a leak could take a few months a spokesperson from the deputy ministry of research, innovation, and digital policy said on Wednesday, a week after ...

Over the years, past presidents have made a habit of creating new public posts for their cronies. This is why we have ended up with a glut of commissioners, most ...

Opposition party Akel on Wednesday latched onto the developments surrounding the sanctions saying Cyprus has earned a horrific name for itself across the globe, with the previous government “closing its ...

A national sanctions implementation unit will be set up in Cyprus, which will cooperate with the respective department in the UK, the government announced on Wednesday. The decision came at ...

Police in Cyprus have lost track of an Israeli professor who was arrested on February 16 at Larnaca airport on suspicion of arms trafficking to Libya and China between 2015 and 2023. Prior ...

It is unclear how effective government machinations to reduce the VAT on necessary goods will be, following reports on Wednesday that authorities are looking to completely axe tax on items ...

“There is no such thing as ‘away.’ When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA By Panagiotis Kleanthous Plastics are a ubiquitous aspect ...

The sanctions imposed on Cypriot companies and individuals by the US and UK last week took the government by surprise. It was not expecting this and found itself in a ...

What do Russian oligarch Abramovich and Chelsea football club have in common? Links to Cyprus apparently. In a series of exclusive reports dubbed ‘Oligarch files’ published by The Guardian on ...

Greek and Turkish Cypriots have become more estranged since the “spectacular collapse” of talks in 2017, according to the latest Crisis Group report on Cyprus – which argues that small, but meaningful, ...

A freeze on civil service pay rises and reductions established in 2012 for salaries over €2,001 a month has been abolished, meaning billions more will be spent from the state budget to ...

The Cyprus government on Tuesday stressed it was ready to explore whether there were grounds to begin criminal proceedings against sanctioned Cypriots who have been named by the US and ...

A ten-member Cypriot family remains safely in their home in Khartoum, the foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday as Sudan remains locked in turmoil. “They are safe, which is why they ...

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus increased by 61 per cent during the first quarter of 2023, the Cyprus Statistical Service said on Tuesday. Total numbers reached 393,893, compared to 244,705 in the corresponding period of 2022, ...

The server used to direct recent cyberattacks against the land registry and the University of Cyprus (UCy) has been taken over, Director for the police Cybercrime Combat unit, Andreas Anastasiades ...

Both tourism and the property market in Cyprus are being damaged by outdated and unworkable laws governing swimming pools, which have seen many complexes closing theirs over the last few ...

It only took a few hours for the appointment of Michalis Michael as member of the Public Service Commission to degenerate into farce. Within hours of his appointment, social media ...

Cyprus is gearing up to go into damage control mode to salvage its international reputation after a dozen locals have been sanctioned for being “financial fixers” to Russian oligarchs. “I ...

Cyprus is among five EU states that saw more flights in March this year compared with the same month pre-pandemic, Eurostat data showed on Monday. The island also had the ...

Employers are expected to sound the alarm over labour unrest and uncertainty currently plaguing the economy when they meet on April 25 and will be looking to President Nikos Christodoulides for ...

In Northern Ireland with a problem similar to the Cyprob, the referendum question on the Good Friday Agreement was much simpler Last week President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference in ...

It is the key measure needed to reduce reliance on pricey fossil-fuels Increased grid flexibility is critical if we are to produce more than 25 per cent of our electricity from ...

There is no magic bullet to solve either the Cyprus issue or the unstable economic conditions, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday in his first televised Easter message. “In these ...