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Socialists Edek on Tuesday announced they will hold an electoral congress to decide the leadership of its Nicosia district committee later this week as dissidents lambasted party chairman Marinos Sizopoulos ...

More than half of young people in Cyprus are pessimistic about the future while the country failed to introduce new policies targeting youth during the pandemic, a Eurofound survey showed ...

Optimism a solution will be found between the state health services organisation (Okypy) and radiographers working in public hospitals was expressed on Tuesday as the latter decided not to proceed ...

France will build new nuclear reactors to help the country lessen its dependence on foreign countries for its energy supplies, meet global warming targets and keep prices under control, President ...

More than six out of ten Cypriots do not trust the national government, whereas one in two believe things are moving in the wrong direction, according to the first results ...

The political controversy kept raging on Tuesday over four presidential assistants whose fixed contracts got converted to open-ended contracts, effectively giving them civil servant status – something explicitly proscribed by law ...

British police are studying correspondence they have received relating to media reports on appointments to the upper house of parliament, they said on Tuesday, after the Sunday Times reported major ...

Electricity production from natural gas can be expected during the first half of 2023, the chairman of the public natural gas company said Tuesday. Symeon Kassianides said no extra cost to ...

No deaths from Covid were recorded in the past 24 hours, as 266 new infections were detected after 57,173 tests, a positivity rate of 0.47 per cent, the health ministry said Tuesday. Seventy-one people ...

It’s been five years since the Pharos Arts Foundation collaborated with the Embassy of Austria to bring phenomenal young Viennese violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian to Cyprus. This November, the prize-winning ...

The responsibility to abide by CovScan rules should fall exclusively on the public, not businesses, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) and the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) ...

Police seized two kilos of cannabis and arrested a 36-year-old man on Tuesday after a car chase in rural Larnaca. According to drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, the man, who ...

Russia said last week’s nationwide workplace shutdown had helped turn the tide of surging COVID-19 cases, even as officials on Tuesday reported the largest one-day death toll of the ...

China’s military said on Tuesday it conducted a combat readiness patrol in the direction of the Taiwan Strait, after its defence ministry condemned a visit to Taiwan by a ...

Cypriot women make 10.4 per cent less than men, meaning they need to work more days a year for the same salary, gender equality commissioner Iosifina Antoniou said on Tuesday. “For 2021, ...

The bicycle purchase portal reopens on Wednesday for conventional bikes, having on Tuesday pre-approved 25 applications for the purchase of bicycles for the disabled from 183 people who registered. The transport ministry ...

The Edek party has released information that it says raises serious questions about former health minister Giorgos Pamboridis, particularly how his personal financial interests influence his opinions on the national ...

A service to mark Remembrance Day will be held in Paphos on Sunday at Peyia municipality car park, and the public is invited to attend. The service, organised by Alan ...

Five Germany players have been asked to quarantine after one of them tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of this week’s World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein, the German Football Association (...

Antiquities department staff will hold a one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday to protest plans which could see the division of responsibility on cultural heritage to the two constituent states in ...

By Stefica Nicol Bikes Tuvalu is looking at legal ways to keep its ownership of its maritime zones and recognition as a state even if the Pacific island nation is ...

As the official importer and distributor of the legendary Porsche cars in Cyprus, A.I. Motokinisi Ltd recently presented the updated version of the popular Porsche Macan SUV. The presentation ...

By Alister Doyle An overarching goal for the COP26 UN summit of “keeping alive” a 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global warming is in jeopardy, with deep splits about what would ...

The Met service has issued a warning for gale force winds on Wednesday, which are expected to affect the eastern part of the island. The warning concerns the hours between 9...