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Three out of five people in Cyprus said Cypriots are “ready to accept” a female president while more than half believe eligible voters abstain from the elections due to lack ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Gina Agapiou A SafePass will no longer be required at entertainment centres, nightclubs and events such as weddings and christenings as from May 15, Cabinet decided on ...

Years after its sale to Vodafone, the poorly run CyTA Hellas – the Greek subsidiary of the Cypriot state telecom – continues to haunt public finances. In a just-released special report on ...

The bank employees’ union Etyk has invited all its members to district general assemblies next week to vote on strike measures. The union has been in a dispute over pay ...

Cyprus will have ten aerial firefighting means at its disposal this year, it emerged after a wide-ranging meeting on tackling and preventing fires ahead of the summer season. Reports suggested ...

The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece, Israel and the United States reaffirmed their shared commitment to promoting peace, stability, and prosperity in the Eastern Mediterranean during a 3+1 teleconference on Monday. ...

Six out of ten people in Cyprus agree with the legalisation of euthanasia according to a survey by the national bioethics committee presented to MPs on Monday. The survey is ...

Diseases of the circulatory system remained the top cause of death in 2020, while Covid-19 accounted for two per cent of all recorded fatalities, according to data just released by the ...

Barnet-born actor, writer and comedian Jamie Demetriou, the son of an English mother and a Greek Cypriot father, won Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the Bafta TV ...

Presidential candidate and lawyer Achilleas Demetriades said on Monday he will continue his bid undeterred until the end, after he lost out on Akel’s backing when the party’s ...

Akel general secretary Stefanos Stefanou on Monday rebutted claims that their candidate for president Andreas Mavroyiannis was a lackey of the Anastasiades government, stressing Mavroyiannis’ work under various presidents as ...

British high commissioner Stephen Lillie celebrated the “huge milestone” in Cyprus-UK ties on Monday outlining the new deal for development in the British bases. The British bases, comprising 254 square kilometers – ...

By Antonis Antoniou The United States expelled Turkey, a proven unreliable US ally, in 2019 from the F-35 air-fighter programme because it bought the Russian S-400 missile system. Now the Turks ...

The central committee of left-wing opposition party Akel on Sunday voted in favour of Andreas Mavroyiannis’s candidacy for the 2023 presidential elections. Mavroyiannis, who was the chief negotiator on the ...

Cyprus missed the opportunities it had in 2013 to develop its own gas and is now paying the price As Europe imposes more and more sanctions to reduce and eventually stop ...

MY FRIEND who called to ask whether he was going mad or the world around him had gone mad was given a scientific answer to his question last week by ...

U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday to show support for its people amid Russia’s invasion, visiting a school that is serving ...

General ignorance over what a digital euro is means that Cypriots have no idea how its imminent introduction will impact every aspect of their lives With the expected rollout of ...

Turkish Cypriot politics in disarray as Ankara orchestrates collapse of latest coalition By Esra Aygin The Turkish Cypriot ruling coalition collapsed for the second time in 10 days last week, amid ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday evil has returned to Ukraine as he gave an emotional address for Victory Day, when Europe commemorates the formal surrender of Germany ...

Ukrainian fighters at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southeastern port of Mariupol, who are the last holdout against Russian forces in the city, vowed on Sunday to continue ...

President Anastasiades made a rousingly defiant speech at the 14th Congress of the New Democracy party in Athens, at which he was a guest speaker, to justify his handling of ...

2000 law wrongly forced investment companies to plough funds into tanking stock exchange The state has been ordered to pay two investment firms compensation of €9,714,246 plus interest, after the Nicosia District ...

Akel central committee is expected to decide on their preferred choice of presidential candidate for the 2023 elections on Sunday, following the first day of discussions on Saturday. The 105 member-body met ...