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A Palestinian farmer was killed on Sunday after he was targeted by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip’s Maghazi refugee camp, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, underlining the fragility ...

The beginning of a solution or the beginning of the end for the Cyprus problem? By Averof Neophytou The war in Ukraine has already taken a back seat as international ...

IF THE JOB of President of the Republic was ever advertised as a vacancy, one of the perks of the job listed, apart from having dictatorial powers and being worshipped ...

At a meeting with ministers and other officials last Monday, President Christodoulides revealed that he had tried to secure the services of experts from abroad to help with investigations of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is set to embark on an official visit to Qatar, with the focus resting on critical discussions surrounding the Middle East affairs, the ongoing Cyprus issue, and ...

The armed wing of Hamas said it had decided to delay Saturday’s scheduled second round of hostage releases until Israel committed to allowing aid trucks to enter northern Gaza. ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Saturday released a statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, underlining how many women around the world are the subject of ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Saturday stated that both the Cypriot government and Chevron are highly optimistic that they will come to a mutually accepted plan over the Aphrodite gas ...

‘Last year we had more than 200,000 visitors in the 50-something days we were open,’ says tiny Fikardou With the sun still shining in Cyprus, it may not feel like Christmas ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades issued a statement on Friday, welcoming the decision of the Authority Against Corruption to investigate serious allegations of corruption made against him in a book by ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Iole Damaskinos Former president Nicos Anastasiades on Friday expressed his satisfaction with the announcement that the anti-corruption authority is looking into allegations made in the book ‘...

Cyprus will face a shortage of doctors and nurses in five years, a capacity planning study from the health ministry showed, as most registered doctors are over the age of 41. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, accompanied by his wife Philippa Karsera and Cypriot officials. Christodoulides and Pope Francis had a private meeting, followed by ...

Akel is to hold a statutory conference on Sunday with the aim of voting on changes to the party’s constitution, which members hope will modernise the party. Among the ...

Integration of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum is imperative to avoid serious future problems, Director of the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare, Yiannis Nicolaides said. Addressing members of the House interior ...

Bulldozers began knocking down the first of refugee buildings deemed inadequate on Friday, at the Apostolos Andreas estate in Latsia, Nicosia. The first demolitions were attended by Interior Minister Constantinos ...

A temporary ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas forces took hold in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the first respite in 48 days of conflict that has devastated the Palestinian enclave, but ...

Initiatives to preserve Cyprus’s watermills are in progress, propelled by a comprehensive book that documented 650 watermills throughout the entire island. The imperative for a targeted effort is especially crucial ...

What a complete mess the authorities have made with the road works in the Akamas. It appears that restrictions set out by the environment department, in line with the Akamas ...

Members of the House health committee are set to send a letter to President Nikos Christodoulides requesting that €4 million be included in the state budget for 2024 to support relatives of ...

Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday morning with a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages released later that day, mediators in ...

A group of guards, who experienced salary reductions of up to €1,200 just before the Christmas season due to incomplete state examinations, asserts the deduction was “unlawful”. Approximately 60 guards, members of ...

Significant legal and staffing challenges are slowing down the creation of a deputy ministry for migration, which has been deemed an important move for Cyprus given the huge uptick in ...

Akamas is a national project and not private property and the need for restoration of damages is urgent, Klitos Papastylianou, ex-scientific advisor for the Akamas special environmental assessment said on ...