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It is of critical importance that Cyprus develops the necessary infrastructure to exploit its natural gas because at present its hydrocarbons cannot be effectively utilised, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said ...

Nicosia district court on Tuesday fined two people €400 each after they were found guilty of violence in sports stadiums. They were also excluded from stadiums for three months. The decision ...

A bill to allow mothers to suspend their maternity leave if their child is hospitalised and in an incubator was discussed by MPs on Tuesday. The House labour committee was ...

Controversy has surfaced in the north over payments made to a private company for the rent of the Ayia Anastasia church in Lapithos, which currently operates as a nursing home. ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou called for the assistance of EU border agency Frontex on Tuesday for all procedures surrounding the management of migratory flows. Addressing the Economist’s Annual Cyprus ...

Elderly refugees are requesting assistance from the fire service to carry their groceries upstairs due to the absence of elevators, the House refugees committee heard on Tuesday. After the committee ...

Six teenagers were expelled from the Paphos Technical School on Tuesday due to “their delinquent behaviour”, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. The school’s leaders said the children were “...

Cyprus’ proposal to establish a humanitarian aid sea corridor to Gaza will be discussed by President Nikos Christodoulides at an international meeting in Paris on Friday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Almost a third of Cypriots are still smokers, according to statistics compiled by research company Marc released on Tuesday. Marc, acting on behalf of Philip Morris Cyprus, interviewed a total ...

A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond “double” to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike that killed three children and their grandmother ...

One in seven people living in the north are surviving below the poverty line, according to figures released by the north’s Statistics Institute on Tuesday. The figures released also ...

Turkey donated $100,000 (€93,637) to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday, taking the total amount the country has donated to almost €1.4 million. The donation was announced by the CMP’s ...

For the first time ever in Cyprus, something truly EPIC is making its appearance… Epic One is here to shake things up! A new plan from Epic that has it ...

By Valerie Volcovici and Kate Abnett Final talks over the weekend to agree a proposal for a new climate disaster fund averted a deadlock ahead of the UN’s COP28 ...

By Will Dunham On the boundary of dangerous territory, a troop of about 30 individuals engaging in a border patrol climbs a rocky hill to conduct reconnaissance. Detecting the sounds of ...

Laura Lander, King’s College London and Grazia Todeschini, King’s College London Electric cars are getting bigger and heavier. In 2019, 30% of the electric vehicle (EV) models available worldwide were ...

By Saskia Otterstein World-renowned Muay Thai champion Daniel McGowan recently captivated attendees at a one-week seminar hosted by The Big Gym Larnaca. The gathering was made possible thanks to sports ...

Many of us will have heard of Hellenic Bank – you’re more than likely to have come across one of its branches at prominent locations in all cities across the ...

Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis attended the prestigious World Travel Market (WTM) in London this week, bolstering Cyprus’ presence at the event, and relaying optimism about the prospects ...

The European Investment Fund (EIF) of the European Investment Bank (EIB), along with Cypriot Finance Ministry, this week announced the launch of Cyprus’ very first equity fund. According to an ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz was compared to video game character Super Mario in ‘parliament’ on Tuesday. The remark was made by opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Fide Kursat, as ...

As industrial processes become more complex and our reliance on various gases grows, the need for effective gas detection becomes increasingly evident. The consequences of failing to detect the presence ...

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that a remark by an Israeli junior minister who appeared to express openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike ...

Nearly a third of elderly people killed in traffic accidents in Cyprus were pedestrians, a European transport safety council (ETSC) report said on Tuesday. During the three-year period from 2020 to 2022, 32 ...