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Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has said he would step down should Ankara revise its policy on the Cyprus problem after the May elections. Tatar stated that possibility of Ankara ...

The north has been steadily increasing its demand for electricity from the Republic over the past three years, as the power needs of the north are not being met by ...

Deputy prison director Athena Demetriou will be seconded to the audit service, it emerged on Wednesday. Spokesman for the audit service Marior Petrides told CNA they were waiting for the ...

Turkey has requested the north send back a building contractor from Antakya, Turkey who fled following the eathquakes last month, reports said on Wednesday. According to reports in Diyalog, Turkey ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Ukrainian troops on Wednesday near the frontline city of Bakhmut, and handed out medals to soldiers he said were heroically defending their country’s sovereignty. Ukrainian ...

Russian e-commerce firm Ozon (OZON.O) said on Wednesday it was appealing the Nasdaq stock exchange’s plan to delist its securities and wanted to stand up for the rights ...

Through dance, the new generation of Cypriot and Greek members of the diaspora are being introduced to their culture finds PAUL LAMBIS Called the Mother of Hellenism by Pope and ...

Only one third of public buildings are decorated with local artworks despite a 2009 law providing for one per cent of the total construction budget being allocated to works of art, ...

Local students created Enmeal, an innovative application promoting healthy eating with personalised meal plans and recipes aiming to improve quality of life. Heritage private school students created the application in ...

UBS Group (UBSG.S) said on Wednesday it would buy back 2.75 billion euros ($2.96 billion) worth of debt it issued less than a week ago, seeking to boost confidence among investors ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos has withdrawn his candidacy for the position of Disy deputy party leader, he said in an announcement on Wednesday. The final day to enter the running ...

MPs will discuss the proposal for the abolition of the twice-yearly exams next week, a move that satisfied the demands of teachers, parents and students who resisted the new evaluation ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE On March 7, just before International Women’s Day, the BBC’s Today programme interviewed three young women who had been flashed. That shock intrusion frighteningly elicited ...

Greece reopened some train routes on Wednesday, three weeks after a deadly train crash forced authorities to suspend all rail service across the country over safety concerns. All passenger and ...

The interior ministry on Wednesday rejected suggestions it had been well aware of rampant abuse at the online appointment system of the migration department for months, but wilfully chose to ...

Russia launched a swarm of drones into Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people near Kyiv in a display of force as China’s President Xi Jinping left Moscow with ...

Germany’s World Cup-winning midfielder Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from football at the age of 34 on Wednesday. The former Real Madrid and Arsenal player was a key member of ...

One of the largest investors of the Credit Suisse bonds that were wiped out in the UBS takeover of the troubled Swiss bank still believes in the value of the ...

Patient surveys at hospitals will be used to evaluate how much funding each one will receive from the national health scheme (Gesy) at the end of the year, the health ...

The robotic team from Pascal did it again. They have created a robot powered by the new artificial intelligence chatGPT. In a statement, they mentioned “PASCAL schools have recently completed ...

Defendants on trial will be electronically monitored at home instead of being remanded in prison based on two law proposals aimed at reducing central prison overcrowding. This means that people ...

Cyprus is set to reopen its High Commission in Kenya and its embassy in Indonesia in 2023, while plans are also being drawn up for inaugurating embassies in Argentina and Bahrain. ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and its allies will not field a presidential candidate in May, its co-leader said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of the opposition uniting ...

A 21-year-old motorcyclist was arrested on Tuesday at around 4pm after failing to stop for a police check in Limassol and attempting to escape the authorities. He appeared in front ...