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Migrant arrivals from Syria have doubled in the last couple of months following the outbreak of war in Gaza, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. This has meant that ...

The US helicopter crash that killed five special operations troops on Friday occurred some 30 nautical miles south-east of Cyprus, it was reported on Monday. The defence ministry told the Cyprus ...

Rejecting Turkey’s energy proposals is not enough. Cyprus should also be ready with counter-proposals that could contribute to reviving and speeding-up the Cyprus talks By Dr Charles Ellinas and ...

Says he ‘lit the spark’ for two-state solution policy Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat hit out at one of his successors, Mustafa Akinci, in an interview published this ...

Classes poised to start next year in Vouni The vine-growing mountain village of Vouni is set to become the proud location of Cyprus’ first ever recognised Wine Sommelier School. In ...

Oren Anolik says looking at the Hamas killings and Israel’s response through the prism of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just playing into the hands of terrorists Which is ...

A fatal strain of cat Covid which has killed thousands of animals on the island has reached the UK, reports said on Sunday. According to the Daily Mail, scientists said ...

WISDOM does not always feature prominently in the decisions taken by our judges. In fact, there are times when decisions could be described as completely lacking in wisdom – this is ...

Speaking at the 19th Economist summit in Nicosia, Colin Stewart, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative, said the understanding reached between the two sides on the issue of Pyla was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Turkish Cypriot side had effectively “backed away” from the mutual understanding reached on construction works in the buffer zone village of Pyla. ...

British military aircraft have been making frequent flights between the country’s Sovereign Base Area in Akrotiri and Israel since the Gaza crisis erupted in October. A UK-based website by ...

Andreas Theofilou, the lawyer who won the first case on Laiki Bank deposit haircuts for his client, said on Friday that he is confident that his office will be able ...

After a great deal of tampering by the political parties the laws that would reform local government were eventually passed by the legislature. But despite the self-congratulatory mood created by ...

Some 2,000 foreign troops stationed in Cyprus Israel has identified the best point in Gaza for which Cyprus can connect its humanitarian corridor to, though security sources fear Hamas may use ...

Opposition party Disy called for the issue of lawyers taking advantage of migrants to be discussed at the house interior committee, in a letter sent to parliament on Friday, after ...

The first Cyprus-Greece Intergovernmental Summit took place in Athens on Friday, headed by the heads of state of both countries, who discussed the escalating crisis unfolding in the Middle East, ...

The basic pension rate is set to increase by four per cent from the beginning of the new year, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday. Panayiotou was addressing the ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar slammed the European Union on Friday following the release of the EU-Turkey report on Wednesday. “The EU has become a prisoner of the Greek Cypriot ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Tom Cleaver Police believe the 22-year-old arrested in the early hours of Friday morning in relation with the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos helped organise the assassination ...

Akel on Thursday backed the criticisms of people with disabilities over the annual Radiomarathon fund-raising foundation for being condescending towards them. The left-wing party’s statement was issued after the ...

Everyone will have been surprised by the Limassol district court’s decision in favour of a Laiki Bank depositor who had sought compensation from the authorities for the loss of ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas The interior ministry said on Thursday that they agree on the recommendations for stricter checks made in an audit office report on golden visa ...

By John Irish President Nikos Christodoulides outlined a proposal on Thursday to open a maritime corridor to help deliver more aid to Gaza, a plan which he said could be ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday presented the €30 million scheme aiming to increase the use of photovoltaic panels in Cyprus which will in turn reduce home electricity bills. The revised ...