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The foreign ministry protested to the United Nations about an incident in the buffer zone where armed Turkish soldiers ordered a Greek Cypriot shepherd to leave and threw stones at ...

Russia has scrapped a Saturday deadline to resume flows via a major gas supply route to Germany, deepening Europe’s difficulties in securing winter fuel, after saying it had found ...

Vaccination gaps in EU populations must be closed as a “matter of top priority”, the EU’s Cypriot Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides said on Friday, with Brussels recommending that ...

Just days after a video clip went viral showing a female asylum seeker being hit by a man said to be her landlord, a new clip which appeared to show ...

Turkey has exceeded all limits but we will respond with responsibility, Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis said on Friday after meeting Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades at the Maximos Mansion in ...

The finance ministry’s general directorate for development is steaming ahead to implement landmark projects to secure the second €85 million tranche of funds from the EU recovery and resilience plan, ...

The health ministry said on Friday that four deaths from Covid-19 and 1,752 new cases of the virus were reported for the week of August 26 – September 1, 2022. The four deaths concerned three ...

Cyprus has a very low number of organ donors in relation to other EU countries, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Thursday during a visit to the Transplant Clinic at ...

“The minimum wage must be universal, and its height must secure a dignified level of living in conditions of healthy employment,” said the Akel president candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis about the ...

Main opposition Akel on Thursday sought to turn up the heat on the administration, revealing that several beneficiaries of the ‘golden passports’ scheme made significant donations to the ruling party. ...

By Christodoulos Mavroudis and Nick Theodoulou connection with an attack on a foreign woman who was renting from them, which was captured on video. Police late Wednesday had arrested the ...

A 64-year-old suspected of murdering a 55-year-old woman has been remanded for eight days by the Nicosia District Court, police said on Thursday. According to police, the 64-year-old was taken ...

Wanted Malaysian fugitive Jho Low is one of many battling the government’s efforts to rescind their Cypriot naturalisation as the cabinet aims to clean up house. Low remains a ...

Outrage has erupted following accusations that construction works by the side of a cemetery have destroyed graves and desecrated the grounds. Efi Xanthou, of the Greens party, claims that the ...

China‘s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing U.N. human rights chief said in a ...

The long, drawn-out discussions over the controversial relocation of asphalt plants to the Mitsero and Vasiliko area continued during Wednesday’s session of the House Environment Committee, after Vasiliko and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday, aged 91, was celebrated in the West as a great leader but in Russia he was reviled for causing the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

Police have arrested a 64-year-old man in connection with the death of a woman who was found in a Nicosia house on Tuesday afternoon. According to the police report, the ...

Cyprus is revoking seven more passports that were granted through the Cyprus investment programme, following a decision by the cabinet, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris announced on Wednesday. Speaking after the ...

The eight-year-old boy who was intubated after being attacked by dogs on Tuesday is now off the ventilator and is in a stable condition, according to paediatric surgeon Christos Mina. ...

The monthly minimum wage has been set at €940 and will be implemented at the start of the new year, Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos announced. The “historic” move came after Wednesday’...

Face masks will no longer be mandatory from today, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela has announced, citing an improved epidemiological picture. Excluded are places considered high risk, such as hospitals, nursing ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow ...

Regulations over a year old stipulate those you cannot own. Why haven’t they been enforced? By Charalampos Theopemptou In March 2021, a tough new regulation came into force about the ...