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A total of three villages have been evacuated as homes and animals have been engulfed in flames as wildfires raged out of control in the Paphos district on Tuesday. Psathi ...

Six new fire-fighting aircraft are joining the forestry department’s fleet, it announced on Tuesday. Two planes arrived from Argentina on Monday afternoon, with two more from Australia due to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met UNSG Antonio Guterres in Jordan on Tuesday, as they both attended a conference over the dire humanitarian conditions unfolding in Gaza for months. Government sources said ...

Police presence will be stepped up at Lady’s Mile beach until September, Sovereign Base Areas police announced on Tuesday. The Limassol beach is expected to receive 20,000 visitors during the ...

With Fidias Panayiotou and Elam both making their first foray into the European parliament, both highlighted the themes they campaigned on – an interest to learn for Panayiotou, and a willingness ...

Public doctors in Cyprus, some of whose annual salaries have surged to €150,000 since the implementation of the national health scheme (Gesy), are now in dispute with their employer, the state ...

All the traditional political parties came out bruised from EU parliamentary elections on Sunday, while Cyprus echoed the EU generally by electing far-right nationalists Elam to a seat at the ...

Turkish Cypriots on Monday started to react to the loss of their sole MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek, who failed to win re-election on Sunday. Among the first to react was journalist ...

The election of social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou to the European parliament is something “we have never seen before”, elections expert Yiannis Mavris said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Limassol and Polemidia gained new mayors, official results showed with Yiannis Armeftis gaining the former position and Andros Theodorou the latter. Voters chose Demos Katshis as the deputy mayor of ...

Progress towards implementing the liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko will be on the House energy committee’s agenda on Tuesday when it reconvenes following the elections. Energy Minister George ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will join a call for action on Gaza in Amman, Jordan on Tuesday, aiming at finding ways to address the ongoing humanitarian disaster. Call for Action: Urgent ...

The race for local administration seats on Sunday was a thriller at times, as some community leaders were elected by as small a margin as one vote. Chief returning officer ...

In Paphos Phedonas Pedonos was re-elected as mayor of Paphos following local elections on Sunday with Angelos Onisiforou becoming deputy mayor. Meanwhile, mayor of the eastern Paphos municipality was won ...

Four out of five mayors in the Larnaca district were re-elected on Sunday, official announcements made on Monday revealed. Andreas Vyras was re-elected as mayor of Larnaca and Iasonas Iasonides ...

The United States Central Command on Sunday denied that the temporary jetty constructed off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid shipped from Cyprus had been ...

New mayors and deputy mayors were officially announced on Monday, following the previous day’s local elections. Charalambos Prountzos was named Nicosia mayor after beating his opponent Nicos Tornaritis in ...

Voters elected Cyprus’ first district governors on Sunday, new positions created as part of local government reform. Constantinos Yiorkadjis was elected in Nicosia, Yiannis Tsouloftas in Limassol, Angelos Hadjicharalambous in ...

Phedonas Phedonos was re-elected as Paphos mayor on Sunday, seeing off a challenge from Diko-backed Evros Loizides. Phedonos won just over 60 per cent of the vote on a high turnout ...

The citizens have spoken and their verdict is fully respected, President Nikos Christodoulides said in his remarks on Sunday evening at the Presidential Palace referring to the results of the ...

With 90 per cent of the vote counted, Yiannis Armeftis was announced as Limassol mayor on Sunday. He beat his main rival Nicos Nicolaides, who has held the post since 2016. In ...

Incumbent Famagusta mayor in exile Simos Ioannou won a second term in office on Sunday, winning just shy of 40 per cent of the vote. His nearest challenger Andreas Vrahimis won 30 ...

Incumbent Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras was re-elected in a landslide victory on Sunday, winning around two thirds of votes cast in the town. With just shy of 60 per cent of ...

Charalambos Prountzos was mayor-elect of Nicosia on Sunday, garnering almost three times as many votes as his main rival Nicos Tornaritis. By 8:30pm, Tornaritis said he had called Prountzos to ...