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Nurses’ unions and the state health services organisation (Okypy) decided on Monday that they would reconvene on June 6 to continue their deliberations over understaffing. In statements after the three-hour meeting, ...

An ‘unprecedented mass claim’ of Laiki and Bank of Cyprus depositors and bondholders amounting to US$600 million was dismissed at the International Arbitral Tribunal of the World Bank, the Legal ...

People living in the Troodos mountain area “should not be treated as second-class citizens”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. He was speaking about the state of the Troodos ...

For years now, there have been attempts by the state to set up university clinics that would be used by the medical school of the University of Cyprus. The first ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday for July 4, saying Britons would be able to choose their future in a vote his Conservatives are widely expected ...

The two cabinet-appointed investigators received their formal orders of operation on Wednesday, as they began digging into the 19-year-old case of guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s murder. They have “three months ...

None of the aid unloaded from the jetty constructed off the coast of Gaza has yet been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder ...

Members of the police drug squad Ykan followed for over 24 hours the two men who were arrested and remanded for the largest cache of weapons and explosives ever found in ...

Two men were remanded in custody on Tuesday on what police described as possibly the largest cache of weapons and explosives ever found in Cyprus. The two, aged 46 and 35, were ...

A momentous eight-decade journey that takes in Hitler, Helios and the haircut, as well as Covid the pandemic and Covid the cat! Over the last year, the Cyprus Mail team ...

Four ships travelled from Larnaca over the weekend with almost 1,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Gaza along the Amalthea corridor, director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos said ...

The Vasiliko liquified natural gas (LNG) project is “not shipwrecked” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday after widespread speculation that the project’s future was looking increasingly dire. Christodoulides, in ...

A 32-year-old man who was in custody for 20 cases of burglaries and thefts in Paphos, was rearrested on Tuesday as a suspect in 14 similar cases, committed in Limassol district. According ...

The rate of progress on the under-construction road between Paphos and Polis Chrysochous is “worrying”, Paphos chamber of commerce chairman George Mais said on Monday. He said he considers the ...

Last week the unions representing public hospital nurses were busy meeting to discuss the issue of staff shortages, after which they demanded that the health ministry proceeded with the hiring ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver President Nikos Christodoulides met Chinese ambassador Liu Yantao on Monday to discuss the increasingly fractious dispute over the liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) being ...

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said on Monday he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war ...

A total of five Cypriots featured in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List’s 100 richest people resident in the United Kingdom. The highest ranked Cypriot is John Frederiksen, in ...

Investigations are continuing on Monday after a severed human foot was found on a beach in Paphos, the town’s police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said. Nikolaou explained ...

There have been no new migrant arrivals in Cyprus since the joint visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Lebanon at the beginning ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed after his helicopter crashed in poor weather in mountains near the ...

Cyprus team set record for highest fitness session The mountaineering team that left Cyprus last month for Nepal has set a new Guinness World Record for the highest altitude fitness ...

The Green party on Sunday charged that dozens of pigeons died in Nicosia’s old town after someone poisoned them. “This is a crime of huge proportions. Some may not ...

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers ...