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It’s hard to blame the residents of the nine communities in the Vasiliko area for going out to protest on Monday at the place where a mountain of tyres ...

Nicosia’s close ties with Israel will not affect its bilateral relations with the Palestinian Authority, President Nicos Anastasiades pledged to his Palestinian counterpart on Tuesday. The comments came during ...

Ukraine said its forces were still trying to evacuate civilians from embattled Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday after Russia destroyed the last bridge to the devastated eastern city. The Ukrainian defenders were ...

The legal team of the British woman who alleges that she was gang raped in Ayia Napa in 2019 is taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). ...

Andreas Mavroyiannis on Tuesday morning officially launched his bid as a presidential candidate, emphasising that better days are possible for Cyprus, but there is no magic wand. The announcement comes ...

Enerco Energy Recovery Ltd a company affiliated with the Vasiliko cement factory has said the fire that broke out on Saturday in the storage area for cutting of old tyres ...

The eastern Mediterranean migratory route was the third most active on the external borders of the European Union during the first five months of 2022, according to preliminary calculations published by ...

We will continue our efforts to resolve the Cyprus issue without bending to any threats or challenges, and always according to international law, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Monday. ...

Human health was not directly threatened by a fire that broke out in Vasiliko during the weekend, authorities said on Monday after surrounding communities staged a protest to express their ...

The education ministry has prepared a five-year programme costing around €100 million for air conditioning in schools, minister Prodromos Prodromou has revealed. He told CNA the policy position was that there ...

A new book on the island’s leaders says the first president was incapable of taking decisions that did not have general and universal acceptance Poor leadership, which takes decisions ...

In a secular state the Church cannot relinquish its spiritual role for cheap politicking I have been led to the conclusion that there is no God by Archbishop Chrysostomos, with ...

Is it right to have national health policy being dictated, top-down, by a global entity asks Theo Panayides The annual summit of the World Health Assembly – the decision-making body of ...

Analyst says the level of anti-Greek sentiment in Turkey right now is historically high. ‘We haven’t seen anything like it in some 30 years’ Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly ...

WHEN the combination of politicians, unions and civil servants take the responsibility of managing a business operating in market conditions there can only be one result – financial disaster and eventually ...

PERHAPS I have become a grumpy old man, no longer able to fight my innate conservatism and completely out of touch with the times. This was probably the reason I ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine would prevail in its war with Russia, now focussed on a artillery slugging match over an eastern Ukrainian city. Russian forces have ...

A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in an open area filled with old tyres at a processing centre for Vasilikos, between the villages of Kalavasos and Mari, mobilising the ...

The interior ministry on Saturday said its efforts to control migrant influxes had yielded results and these were reflected on the outcome of the EU Home Affairs Council and the ...

The health ministry on Saturday called on people to remain vigilant during the Kataklysmos three-day weekend in order to prevent themselves from contracting Covid-19. The ministry said that two new ...

The Kataklysmos three-day weekend is shaping up to be a much-needed shot in the arm for the island’s hotels and tourism sector, with locals and foreign visitors alike flocking ...

The government’s refusal to release the Akamas Plan to the legislature was certain to raise suspicions among everyone interested in the protection of this area natural beauty. Many people, ...

Local NGO BirdLife Cyprus in an open letter to environment department director, Costas Hadjipanayiotou, said there was a need to urgently issue a negative assessment report on the latest proposed ...

Turkish Cypriots on Friday continued demonstrating against price hikes, the new protocol on financial support from Turkey, and what they consider interventions on their free will, with support from political ...