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After the heavy frosting our garden had earlier in the year, I thought that we had lost our lovely bougainvillea, which scrambles across the front veranda railing competing for space ...

September brings with it a new wave of cultural events. One to mark down is the Laou Laou Open Streets event happening in Limassol on September 20 and in Nicosia on ...

Thanks to the Cyprus Mail giving space to my previous rants, I can report further that I lost my case with the newly re-organised Larnaca local district administration in the ...

A total of 60 per cent of people will not pay tax according to the tax reform put forward by the government, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Sunday. This is ...

By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi Israel again called on Hamas to surrender on Sunday, as the military carried out strikes on Gaza’s largest urban centre where hundreds of ...

Five people were killed and another severely wounded when a boat carrying migrants hit a Turkish coast guard vessel off northwest Turkey on Sunday, a local governor’s office said, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides proudly announced on Wednesday that 95 per cent of families displaced by Limassol’s wildfire in July have now received a lump sum payment, and the general consensus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday he is ready to meet UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin this week and has “some concrete ideas on how to proceed”. “I consider it particularly ...

A set of carved stone animals – a fox, a vulture and a wild boar – is shedding light on the way prehistoric people told stories after being unearthed by archaeologists in ...

The Great Sea Interconnector, will “greatly benefit Cyprus, which is energy-isolated” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday, but for this to happen, the island “must prove in practice ...

By Dimitris Eleas When I was a child in Greece, I remember my father saying, “Chinese steel breaks – cuts – like bread.” (I’m not sure if he himself still remembers ...

By Joshua McElwee A teenager who died of leukaemia in 2006 became the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation on Sunday, in a Vatican ceremony led by Pope Leo and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will attend a trilateral meeting in New York later this month with the UNSG and Turkish Cypriot leader with sincere will to facilitate the mission of the ...

By Yuka Obayashi, Nobuhiro Kubo and Leika Kihara Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis ...

More than €147 million will be spent on the island’s public schools this year on expansions, upgrades and renovations, Education Minster Athena Michaelidou said on Sunday. “The new school year ...

A 17-year-old was remanded in custody for eight days on Sunday by Larnaca district court n connection with an attempted murder and arson in Pyla last month. He is the ...

You can’t really tell over a Zoom call. Only when the angle’s just right, when he inclines his head a certain way, can you make out… something on ...

Sunday night’s total lunar eclipse, or ‘blood moon’, the last of the year, will be visible in Cyprus in addition to many other regions of the world. A lunar ...

Two people were arrested on Sunday morning in Nicosia after they were stopped by the traffic police on Evagorou Avenue. The officer saw a car overtaking in an irregular fashion ...

By Flora Alexandrou As scholars remind us, national identity is not a fixed concept, nor does it have a single agreed interpretation. It shifts with time, place and circumstance, and ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will leave for Tirana, Albania on Sunday, following an invitation from his counterpart Igli Hasani. He will discuss Cyprus-Albania bilateral relations, the Cyprus problem and the ...

Cyprus’ GDP is growing rapidly and banks are making big profits, but is the welfare of most people benefiting from such developments? The answer is a definite no as the ...

The government recognises its moral obligation to stand by the relatives of those killed in the Helios air crash, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He said that no matter ...

An earthquake with a 4 reading on the Richter scale was recorded on Sunday morning with an epicentre 23km north east of Limassol, the European Seismology Centre said. According to the ...