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The north’s ‘parliament’ on Thursday passed a law clamping down on foreigners buying property. Foreigners are now only allowed to buy one house or apartment each, provided that it ...

Conflicts of interest and an adjournment marked the beginning of the first court proceedings on Thursday, for the attorney-general’s motion to have the auditor-general removed from his post. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday began a two-day official visit to Poland where he held meetings with the country’s leadership. The president, accompanied by his spouse Philippa Karsera Christodoulides, ...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza “is continuing to deteriorate”, Cyprus’ ambassador to the United Nations Maria Michael said on Wednesday night. Speaking to the UN Security Council’s annual open ...

People living in the Troodos mountain area “should not be treated as second-class citizens”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. He was speaking about the state of the Troodos ...

The two cabinet-appointed investigators received their formal orders of operation on Wednesday, as they began digging into the 19-year-old case of guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s murder. They have “three months ...

Within the next two weeks answers will be given for several stalled infrastructure projects, Minister of Transport Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. Speaking on CyBC’s morning programme, Vafeades first ...

None of the aid unloaded from the jetty constructed off the coast of Gaza has yet been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder ...

The implementation of local government reform is at an advanced stage and will be complete by the July 1 deadline, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. Speaking in Paralimni, the ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers smashed the gate of the ‘prime minister’s’ office on Tuesday on their second day of protest. Farmers from across the north had descended on northern Nicosia ...

Forty per cent of Cypriots are “just getting by”, a poll presented on Tuesday showed. The same poll, carried out by the Cypronetwork company and commissioned by the Cyprus consumers’ ...

The 23-year-old man involved in a hit and run that killed 77-year-old Eleni Stavrinidou last week will face manslaughter charges, police said on Wednesday. “It appears the way in which ...

With EU and local elections coming up in less than a month, Cyprus authorities have been moving into high gear to help people know where they will vote and get ...

A 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from the roof of a four-storey block of flats in Paphos on Tuesday. Police were informed about the ...

Two men were remanded in custody on Tuesday on what police described as possibly the largest cache of weapons and explosives ever found in Cyprus. The two, aged 46 and 35, were ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will depart for an official visit to Poland on Wednesday to meet with the country’s political leadership. Accompanied by his wife, the president will attend a ...

The trial of a suspect accused of attempted murder in the village of Psathi last year was on Tuesday adjourned by the Paphos criminal court. The request for adjournment was ...

A momentous eight-decade journey that takes in Hitler, Helios and the haircut, as well as Covid the pandemic and Covid the cat! Over the last year, the Cyprus Mail team ...

Four ships travelled from Larnaca over the weekend with almost 1,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Gaza along the Amalthea corridor, director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos said ...

The Vasiliko liquified natural gas (LNG) project is “not shipwrecked” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday after widespread speculation that the project’s future was looking increasingly dire. Christodoulides, in ...

A 32-year-old man who was in custody for 20 cases of burglaries and thefts in Paphos, was rearrested on Tuesday as a suspect in 14 similar cases, committed in Limassol district. According ...

Music festivals, seaside parties and film nights under a starry sky are coming up as summer approaches. The further down the yearly calendar we go, the busier the cultural agenda ...

A 28-year-old man was killed on Monday, following a crash on a road in Pervolia, Larnaca, police said. According to police, the man was on his motorbike in the area ...

The Cypriot High Commission in London owes the city’s transport authority Transport for London (TfL) almost €1.7 million in outstanding congestion charge fees, TfL said. The figure was released by ...