#Cyprus

Around 2,000 new job openings in the public sector are expected to be made in the next two months, while 114 promotions for existing positions are also on the cards, reports said ...

Dozens of people on Thursday held a demonstration in front of the supreme court in Nicosia to protest the upcoming extradition of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz to Germany. Ayaz was ...

Opposition party Akel on Wednesday latched onto the developments surrounding the sanctions saying Cyprus has earned a horrific name for itself across the globe, with the previous government “closing its ...

Cancer rates among children in Cyprus are among the highest in the world, according to Loizos Loizou, professor of paediatrics, paediatric oncology, and immunology at the of the University of ...

A national sanctions implementation unit will be set up in Cyprus, which will cooperate with the respective department in the UK, the government announced on Wednesday. The decision came at ...

Police in Cyprus have lost track of an Israeli professor who was arrested on February 16 at Larnaca airport on suspicion of arms trafficking to Libya and China between 2015 and 2023. Prior ...

The Bank of Cyprus has begun notifying its clients who are Russian citizens that their accounts will be closed, the Russian edition of Forbes magazine reported on Tuesday. Forbes cited ...

United Nations Development Programme Cyprus stressed its commitment to protecting the island’s cultural heritage on the occasion of the World Heritage Day. In a post on twitter, UNPD said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday he will soon travel to EU member states to discuss his proposal regarding a more active EU involvement in breaking the deadlock to the ...

What do Russian oligarch Abramovich and Chelsea football club have in common? Links to Cyprus apparently. In a series of exclusive reports dubbed ‘Oligarch files’ published by The Guardian on ...

Cyprus recorded the highest excess mortality among EU member states this February while the union as a whole recorded no monthly excess mortality for the first time since the Covid-19 ...

The north launched a new airline on Tuesday as Fly Kibris’ maiden flight saw an Airbus A320 travel from Tymbou (Ercan) to Istanbul, with flights scheduled later for Iran, Kosovo, ...

The introduction of a patients’ rights commissioner is among the demands of the Cyprus Federation of Patients’ Associations (Osak) to assure that no one is deprived of their health rights, ...

Greek and Turkish Cypriots have become more estranged since the “spectacular collapse” of talks in 2017, according to the latest Crisis Group report on Cyprus – which argues that small, but meaningful, ...

A freeze on civil service pay rises and reductions established in 2012 for salaries over €2,001 a month has been abolished, meaning billions more will be spent from the state budget to ...

The Cyprus government on Tuesday stressed it was ready to explore whether there were grounds to begin criminal proceedings against sanctioned Cypriots who have been named by the US and ...

A ten-member Cypriot family remains safely in their home in Khartoum, the foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday as Sudan remains locked in turmoil. “They are safe, which is why they ...

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus increased by 61 per cent during the first quarter of 2023, the Cyprus Statistical Service said on Tuesday. Total numbers reached 393,893, compared to 244,705 in the corresponding period of 2022, ...

Cyprus had the highest ratio across EU member states of Ukrainian citizens granted temporary protection for February 2023, Eurostat data revealed on Monday. The ratio for Cyprus – per 1,000 people – amounted to 1.1, ...

Cyprus is gearing up to go into damage control mode to salvage its international reputation after a dozen locals have been sanctioned for being “financial fixers” to Russian oligarchs. “I ...

Cyprus is among five EU states that saw more flights in March this year compared with the same month pre-pandemic, Eurostat data showed on Monday. The island also had the ...

Student accommodation will be constructed for the first time in Cyprus by municipal authorities in Paphos, the city’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos said on Monday. Some 203 student rooms will be ...

Two people have been arrested following a mass fight in the capital in the early morning hours on Monday. Police received information about the fight and an injured person around 2...

People aged over 65 who live in cities tend to feel they have better health than their age group as a whole, with the share for Cyprus being a little lower ...