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Cyprus recorded one of the highest shares of young adults with a tertiary education qualification in the EU in 2025, as the bloc continued to expand its highly educated workforce, according ...

Cyprus borrowing rates were broadly in line with the euro area median in July, while deposit rates remained the lowest in the euro area, according to the Central Bank of ...

Cyprus has spent years talking about becoming an innovation economy. If the country wants to make that transition, research and innovation can no longer be treated as a secondary area ...

A total of 761 school buses have passed mandatory inspections and are ready to operate at the start of the new school year, while 40 that failed the checks will not be ...

We have been hearing about the need for reform of the legal system and the legal service for many years now. No matter how many times this is mentioned in ...

Last updated: September 1st 2026 Larnaca International Airport, or LCA, is Cyprus’s largest airport and the principal arrival point for Larnaca, Nicosia, Limassol, Ayia Napa and Protaras. It is approximately 5...

A Serbian government plane brought the body of former army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week serving a life sentence for war crimes, back to Belgrade on Thursday for ...

A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday injured 10 people, triggered a fire and badly damaged a high-rise residential building, officials said. The city’s military administration initially ...

Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian cruise ship in the Arctic on behalf of Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz, which is seeking to enforce a $4.22 billion compensation award for assets that ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to block federal aid for universities that boycott Israel, the latest Republican-backed pro-Israel measure amid growing Democratic criticism of the ...

Government officials and MPs on Thursday revisited the matter of restricting property and land purchases by non-EU nationals, with one lawmaker saying that foreign nationals account for one-half of such ...

A tenth body was recovered on Thursday from the wreckage of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said.  “We have learned that ...

In a letter published on Thursday, the leader of opposition Akel has asked the finance minister how the entry of a French asset management firm in the Great Sea Interconnector (...

The 12 per cent pension reduction imposed on people who retire at 63 dominated discussions at the Labour Advisory Board on Thursday as negotiations over the government’s pension reform continued. The ...

Back for its second half is the 29th Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus, which will continue to present high-quality cultural productions, filling Nicosia’s evenings with exemplary performances. ...

Cyprus and the United Kingdom are expected to finalise a new strategic dialogue by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Thursday following talks in London. ...

Lawmakers on Thursday continued seeking ways of barring recipients of Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from gambling at casinos, amid an acknowledgment they have to tread carefully due to privacy considerations. ...

The third vulture chick born in Cyprus this year has been successfully ringed, marking another step in efforts to conserve the endangered species, authorities said on Thursday. Meanwhile, GPS tracking ...

The House health committee pressed for expedited action on staffing and oncology services at Limassol general hospital during a visit on Thursday. Committee chair Savia Orphanidou said four specialties required ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday that talks on pension reform were “in full swing”, stressing that implementation remained on track for 2027. “Today, discussions at the Labour Advisory Board ...

Gloria Steinem, the American writer, lecturer, activist and organiser who fought for gender equality and women’s civil and reproductive rights for more than five decades, has died, her foundation ...

Dimis Mavropoulos was laid to rest on Thursday as relatives, friends, business associates and public figures gathered in Limassol to pay their final respects to the businessman and motorsport figure ...

Visa requirements for Cypriot citizens changed more in the past twelve months than in the previous ten years combined. Old identity cards lost their travel validity in August, the UK ...

The government’s pension reform must deliver sustainable and adequate pensions without increasing contributions or the retirement age, Disy president Annita Demetriou said on Thursday after meeting Labour Minister Marinos ...