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The 22nd World Cup, the first played in an Arab country, comes to a close on Sunday evening in a box-office final between holders France and Argentina, top football forces, ...

During the state budget debate, the Green Party, once again, tried to block the spending item for former presidents of the republic and former presidents of the legislature, that cover ...

There was one positive thing to come out of the ludicrous decision of the ministry of education’s committee for the approval of shows to take a line from a ...

From today, households and businesses in the Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta districts were to be subjected to power cuts of 30 minutes to an hour in the evening because Electricity Authority ...

The outgoing government appears to be making a new push for the UN secretary-general to appoint a Cyprus envoy just over two months before a presidential election, which does not ...

Who could have thought that in 2022, almost 50 years after his passing, General Georgios Grivas would be dominating the news headlines and sparking angry exchanges between parties. Even more astonishing is ...

During the debate on the state budget on Thursday, a deputy had heard of the latest statement about Varosha by the Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and asked that ...

When in the previous week, it was announced that parents’ associations of two schools in Limassol were planning a protest about the sheer volume of the school curriculum, many would ...

It is very convenient for everyone to blame bad policing for the violence and vandalism by football hooligans, because then they can go on pretending that they have no responsibility ...

Aside from the issues of alleged unconstitutionality and probably pressure from the church about the new mandatory sex education law that were brought up on Friday at the House during ...

The second presidential debate broadcast simultaneously by the four private television channels was held on Thursday night. Like the first one, the guests were the three leading candidates, who had ...

Greece’s Eurobank has doubled its shareholding in Hellenic Bank it was announced on Thursday. It acquired 12.6 per cent of Hellenic in 2021 adding another 13.5 per cent of the shares this ...

The public protest has for years been a popular alternative to political discourse. If an interest group thinks its arguments are not being heard or have failed to convince the ...

EVERYONE who spoke at the AGM of the Union of Municipalities on Tuesday praised the reform of local government that was voted through last April by the legislature after years ...

It is very difficult to understand why Diko took such offence over the publication of a memo it had supposedly drafted in which it set the conditions for backing the ...

The statement by the attorney-general on the state of the Nicosia central prisons was quite shocking given that the goings on at the facility have always elicited a tight-lipped response ...

In a speech he made on Thursday, independent presidential candidate, Marios Eliades raised an important issue about the forthcoming elections that most candidates have been turning a blind eye to. ...

It was International Children’s Rights Day last Sunday and the child commissioner wasted no time in telling us that the children are very angry with adults because the world ...

Black Friday is a new arrival to Cyprus, where we did not know the meaning of the term until a few years ago. It is an American sales gimmick, held ...

Cyprus’ tourism, to its credit, has recovered at a faster rate than was expected following the complete shutdown of 2020 because of the pandemic restrictions. According to figures presented at the ...

Six out of the 12 serving bishops of the Cyprus Orthodox Church submitted candidacies on Tuesday for the post of archbishop. It is an excessive number of candidates but, presumably, this ...

It is reassuring to hear a senior politician talk honestly about the irresponsible political exploitation of the foreclosures law by the political parties. In an interview published in Monday’s ...

For the first time in its 92-year history, the football World Cup, which opens today in Qatar, will kick off in November. It will be the first time the tournament ...

Disy deputy Savia Orphanidou had a point when she said that every time elections approached the opposition parties tabled for discussion the collapse of the Co-op Bank, which she described ...