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Prisoners at the central prisons are being forced to sleep on the floor due to overcrowding and inadequate facilities, administration commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides told MPs on Wednesday. Presenting her ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas met Egypt’s Border Guard Forces chief, Lieutenant General Osama Abdel Hamid Mohamed Daoud, on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation and security challenges in the Eastern ...

Reunifying Cyprus would strengthen the European Union’s strategic autonomy and its ability to respond to crises in the Middle East, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Addressing students at ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview on Wednesday that it was “painful” when Donald Trump took another side in Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia, after the US ...

Tens of thousands of students stormed the streets of Tirana on Wednesday, setting alight a government building and two banks and hurling stones at police during a protest over rising ...

At 4.7 kg, Cyprus recorded the lowest amount of electrical and electronic equipment waste collected per capita in the EU in 2024, according to findings published by the European Union’s statistical ...

The defence challenged prosecution testimony over €790,000 reportedly kept in safes at the Avakoum monastery during a hearing at Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday. Lawyer Costis Efstathiou, representing Abbot Nektarios, questioned ...

Michalis Vorkas was re-elected unopposed as Bar Association president on Wednesday, setting out his priorities for his new term. Addressing the association’s annual general assembly, Vorkas said no decisions ...

The Cyprus Olympic Committee will investigate the withdrawal of three Cypriot shooters from a European Championship final in Malakasa, with the sports ethics watchdog calling for severe penalties. The committee’...

UEFA confirmed on Wednesday that Olympiacos supporters would be allowed to attend Thursday’s Europa League match at Olympique de Marseille after French authorities withdrew restrictions that had initially appeared ...

Two concerts are on this week by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in Nicosia and Limassol. As the Orchestra collaborates with the internationally-celebrated pianist, composer and cultural visionary, George-Emmanuel Lazaridis for ...

A vehicle caught fire while travelling on the Limassol-Nicosia highway on Wednesday afternoon, shortly before the Moni exit. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene to extinguish the blaze, according ...

Turkey is a “common adversary” of Cyprus and Israel, the president of the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) Josh Reinstein said on Wednesday as six MPs from Disy, Elam and Diko ...

Pope Leo’s recovery from surgery is progressing as expected and he has begun walking in his hospital room and eating normally, the Vatican said on Wednesday, after doctors announced ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Britain on Wednesday where Prime Minister Andy Burnham and King Charles will show their support for the Ukrainian leader after his relationship with the US took ...

The file documenting the police’s investigation into the history of faulty airbags in Cyprus and their import into the country which was handed to the police on Wednesday “will ...

There is “no need to worry” about the possibility of fuel shortages impacting the Turkish Cypriot community, Turkish Cypriot petrol station owners’ association chairman Levent Cagdal said on Wednesday, despite ...

Heavy rain hit the island on Wednesday, forcing the closure of the Peyia-Lara Road after a river overflowed, with severe thunderstorms and strong winds forecast until early Thursday. Police urged ...

The public audit oversight board is taking action over allegations that Deloitte Cyprus helped conceal billions in assets belonging to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich through backdated documents. “The authority has ...

English football clubs are “dangerously exposed” to financial risk, the country’s Independent Football Regulator said in a report released on Tuesday, after finding that 94% of clubs in the top ...

Odysseas Michaelides’ Alma party is in discussions with Fidias Panayiotou’s Direct Democracy movement over a possible joint candidate for the 2028 presidential election, although no official decision has been taken ...

Lawyers for a Ukrainian ex-military officer accused of plotting the September 2022 bombing of Russia’s biggest gas pipeline to Europe argued at the start of his trial on Wednesday that ...

October is recognised globally as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness, promoting prevention and early detection, encouraging healthy choices, and supporting action towards better breast health ...

The price of fuel will increase again in the coming days, petrol station owners’ association chairman Savvas Prokopiou said on Wednesday, with the retail price of diesel reaching record highs. ...