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The relationship between the EU and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Cyprus has been instrumental in promoting dialogue, building trust and fostering reconciliation, the head of UNDP Cyprus ...

Police in Larnaca are investigating a case in which four men allegedly robbed a house “under the threat of garden shears”. The alleged burglary took place shortly after 1am on ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Monday signalled that a bill increasing maternity leave from 18 to 22 weeks would soon get the nod from the cabinet and then head to parliament. In ...

A carer who allegedly beat a 100-year-old man who resided at the care home at which she worked in Famagusta was released on bail on Monday. In court in Famagusta, ...

The Limassol criminal court on Monday saw a tussle taking place involving a relative of one of the two defendants in the double homicide case in Ypsonas last year. Marios ...

Damian Lillard wanted to do something special in his eighth NBA All-Star Game. His pull-up 3-pointer from half court delivered a dazzling highlight. A postgame announcement in which he was ...

Yulia Navalnaya said on Monday she would continue the fight of her dead husband Alexei Navalny for a “free Russia” and called on opposition supporters to battle President Vladimir Putin ...

The villages of Paliometocho and Kokkinotrimithia joined the Nicosia water board on Monday. Their collaboration was finalised following the signing of contracts by Nicosia assistant district officer Andreas Hadjipakkos and ...

Restoration works on former Turkish Cypriot homes on Piale Pasha street in Larnaca have been completed, the town’s municipality announced on Monday. The works pertained to improvements to the ...

Interest in the subsidy plans for purchasing electric vehicles has surged since the opening of the application process last Saturday, according to data released by the department of road transport. ...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday welcomed the appointment of Gabrielle Louise McIntyre, who is meant to investigate corruption claims against him which were written in a book. The anti-corruption ...

Manchester City head into Tuesday’s Premier League clash against Brentford four points adrift of leaders Liverpool, but manager Pep Guardiola said on Monday that his side do not feel ...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki demanded an immediate end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories at the start of hearings on Monday into the legal status of the ...

An increasing number of customers are using the Bank of Cyprus’ digital channels, for both banking and insurance products, leading to a large increase in digital sales of insurance plans, ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Monday, accused of robbing six asylum seekers who had been smuggled with his help from Turkey to northern Cyprus. In court, ...

A U.S. threat to hit financial firms doing business with Russia with sanctions has chilled Turkish-Russian trade, disrupting or slowing some payments for both imported oil and Turkish exports, ...

A 29-year-old man appeared in court in Paphos on Monday as part of the police’s investigation into a large quantity of drugs found in the village of Emba last ...

The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises (Stek) on Monday released a statement expressing concern about the island’s tourism prospects for 2024, highlighting significant challenges ahead. During a recent session, the ...

Oil prices dipped on festering demand concerns and profit-taking prompted by last week’s gains as conflict in the Middle East showed no signs of easing. Brent crude futures were ...

In a flight of imagination, ALIX NORMAN asks AI to imagine what the places of Cyprus would look like as humans If Limassol was human, what would we see? For ...

A Greek anarchist guerrilla group claimed responsibility on Monday for a planned parcel bomb attack against a judge at a courthouse in the northern city of Thessaloniki this month, the ...

Turgay Avci, chairman of the north’s higher education standards authority (Yodak), insisted on Monday that his own degree is real. Avci had faced allegations that his degree, which he ...

Ukraine’s military on Monday shot down two more Russian warplanes used to drop highly destructive guided aerial bombs on Kyiv’s troops, army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said. The destroyed ...

The European Union on Monday warned Israel against launching an offensive in Rafah that ministers said would create a disaster for the roughly 1.5 million refugees crammed into the city on ...