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India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Thursday reaffirmed his solidarity and support for a solution to the Cyprus issue based on the relevant UN resolutions. His statements were relayed ...

The health minister will convene an extraordinary Covid advisory committee on Monday as nations impose restrictions on travellers from China amid its surge of the virus. China, undergoing up to ...

Officials denied that Cyprus is facing a shortage in key medicines such as antibiotics, amid reports of pharmacies running low. Elena Panayiotopoulou, deputy director of the pharmaceutical services, said on ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Thursday threatened to revoke the licences of doctors working in a private hospital in Nicosia who turned away two women in urgent need of medical ...

The House on Wednesday accepted four out of seven referrals made by President Nicos Anastasiades on laws related to the environment, family law, refugee property management and education. The president ...

Twenty-two-year-old Cypriot Eleni Charitonos is one step closer to realising her dream of becoming an astronaut now she has had her January internship at Nasa approved. Charitonos, who holds Cypriot ...

For once there is welcome news that road traffic fatalities in the past 12 months have fallen but 37 lives lost still boils down to three people a month being killed on ...

The bank workers union (Etyk) on Wednesday released a statement responding to the recent decision by the attorney-general, stipulating that former bank employees who left their positions by accepting voluntary ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to an appeal reducing the prison sentence of a man who killed his father in Lefkara from 16 years in jail to 12. The decision, published on ...

The transport ministry on Wednesday unveiled the second phase of the electric vehicle scheme, with a €10 million budget aimed at offering 2,518 grants. Applications will be possible starting January 9, 2023 from 11am ...

Cyprus this year recorded the lowest number of deaths from road collisions since the start of data-keeping, according to assistant traffic director Haris Evripidou. Close to year’s end, the ...

Some 1,300 people will be hired in the police force and the fire department during the course of 2023, raising the government payroll. According to an earlier briefing to parliament by Justice ...

Minister Yiannis Karousos is promising significant improvements in the public transport sphere in the coming year with more and better roads and smart technology, according to an interview published on ...

‘Mayoral’ elections in the north were overwhelmingly won by opposition parties, indicating Ankara’s losing touch with what Turkish Cypriots want in their daily lives, analysts said on Tuesday. The ...

Three-quarters of Cypriots are unsatisfied with the justice system, while many retain reservations about the impartiality of judges, a new survey has shown. Conducted from December 9 to 14 by IMR and ...

The “indifference” shown by the public about taking part in elections for the new Archbishop are a matter for concern, the new prelate said on Tuesday although he added that ...

Two more private hospitals are set to start operating within the national health scheme Gesy in 2023, director of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Tuesday. Speaking to ...

The average rainfall from the beginning of December to 8am on Tuesday amounted to just 32 per cent of the normal precipitation for the month, the met service said in a ...

By Olympia Stylianou Cyprus has joined the European Union as a unitary state with the application of the acquis communautaire suspended in its occupied part. Accession has brought us many ...

Nicosia is constantly following developments as regards efforts for the upgrading of the Turkish Cypriot puppet regime in the Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus, remains vigilant on the matter and ...

The energy market was turned on its head; 2023 could bring further turmoil By Charles Ellinas What a year it was. 2022 was seismic in terms of global energy. Everything was turned ...

A railway is much more feasible an option for Cyprus than tram systems, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Monday in an interview giving an overview of a number of ...

Between the government’s main focus being more and better paid public employees and banks’ passiveness and single-mindedness the economy only works for the few President Nicos Anastasiades, Minister of ...

Recently, the promised details on the Cyprus problem of Nikos Christodoulides’ election manifesto were made public with great fanfare. I have carefully read the relevant text of some 2,000 words three ...