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The ongoing issue of foreclosures will be raised again Thursday before the House plenum in the last legislative session before the summer recess, with the postponement of the debate presented ...

The fires services responded to 21 fires over 24 hours the service announced on Thursday and issued an urgent warning to the public of extremely heightened fire risk due to the prevailing ...

Reports on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and the office of good services made by Secretary General Antonio Guterres were released as official documents on Thursday. The ...

The 1480 helpline for cyber safety addressed nearly 50 per cent more incidents in the second quarter of 2023 than it did in the same period in 2022, the education ministry said on Wednesday. ...

A few months ago, there was public outrage after it transpired that President Nicos Christodoulides had appointed as member of the public service commission a man who had a university ...

By Nicholas Theodoulou and Nikolaos Prakas Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the attorney-general’s office in Nicosia on Wednesday night as they decried a “corrupt government [and] corrupt attorney general” ...

Greece and Turkey agreed on Wednesday to resume talks and confidence-building measures as they hailed a new “positive climate” in ties after more than a year of tensions between the ...

The cabinet approved on Wednesday a mortgage to rent (MtR) scheme, following approval from the European Commission last week, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The commission on July 6 approved a ...

The met office has issued a yellow warning of extreme high temperatures for Thursday with the “Cleon” heatwave set to hit Cyprus. Temperatures are expected to reach as high as 43 ...

Two footballers were banned for life from stadiums and fined €32,000 for match fixing, the judge of the athletic court at Cyprus Football Association (CFA) ruled on Wednesday. According to the ...

International news outlets on Wednesday were reporting on the decimation of cats in Cyprus from a feline coronavirus strain, saying that 300,000 cats had died. The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, and ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantinos Kombos met with the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres on Tuesday and discussed the appointment of a special envoy as well as ...

As the planet registered the hottest day ever recorded in its history, one wonders if humanity and Cyprus are prepared for the upcoming consequences By Natasa Ioannou The planet reached ...

The taxpayer will have to provide another €60m that was not budgeted this year to pay for the increase in CoLA (from 50 to 67.7 per cent of the rise in the ...

Germany and other countries are poised to withdraw their funding for Cyprus’ committee of missing persons (CMP), Greek Cypriot member Leonidas Pantelides told the house refugee committee on Tuesday. In ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said he is ready to discuss almost any issue to resolve the Cyprus problem but ruled out any solution other than a federation. In an interview with ...

Four advisors working for the government were unlawfully employed and procedures to end their employment should begin immediately, the Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides has said. Neither the two advisors to ...

The procedure for examining unemployment benefit applications needs to be reviewed, deputies said on Tuesday after social insurance department officials asked the neighbours of an applicant whether she was employed. ...

The government’s goal is to bring the social insurance system into the 21st century, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (...

The 3+1 Mechanism is the key to expanding the agenda and ensuring the acceleration of the cooperation process, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said at the Eastern Mediterranean Business Summit in New ...

President Nikos Christodoulides accepted Michalis Hadjiyiannis’ resignation from the post of deputy culture minister, which was immediately reappointed to academic Vasiliki (Lina) Kassianidou. The president thanked Hadjiyiannis for the work ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday attended the annual memorial service held for the thirteen people who died in explosions at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari twelve years ago. “...

The number of Iranians, Russians – and more surprisingly – Greek Cypriots arriving in the north by air and sea has seen a stark increase in the first five months of 2023 compared ...

The Customs Department has always been notorious for its heavy-handedness in dealing with people. Customs officials always interpret complex bureaucratic rules in any way they please, relying on people’s ...