#Cyprus

Parliament on Thursday evening enacted a law that allows the identification of users of prepaid mobile phone cards, with some MPs hailing the step while others called it a damp ...

The families of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel collapsed travelled to Turkey on Thursday ahead of the resumption of the trial of those held responsible ...

Developer Kition Ocean Holdings’ no-show at Wednesday’s House transport committee meeting should not “be perceived as a sign of disrespect”, the consortium insisted on Thursday. They described the situation ...

Lawyers representing former President Nicos Anastasiades have filed a €2,000,000 lawsuit against journalist and writer Makarios Drousiotis at the Nicosia district court accusing him of making “malicious, false, and defamatory claims” ...

Candidacies are being submitted for local elections in the Limassol district on Thursday, with the elections set to take place on June 9. June’s elections will be the first to ...

Right wing Disy emerged as the frontrunner in the recent poll conducted by ANT1 ahead of the upcoming European elections on June 9. The lead is closely contested by left-wing Akel, ...

The ‘war’ between the legal service and audit office is creating a climate of intimidation, the latter charged on Wednesday, as steps to remove auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides from his post ...

The EU Commission on Wednesday sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus for failing to correctly incorporate EU legislation that covers money laundering and financial interests. An announcement details that Cyprus, ...

Levels of dust in Cyprus’ atmosphere are not expected to reach the levels seen in Greece in recent days, the met office said on Wednesday. “Some of the [dust] cloud ...

The Internal Audit Service chief Anna Zavou-Christoforou said on Wednesday she had “no other choice” but to report auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides for “inappropriate behaviour”. Her statements on the state broadcaster ...

A massive gap in mutual understanding between the state and the managing consortium seems to be at the core of the stalled multibillion Larnaca port and marina project, with the ...

Political parties on Wednesday officially announced their candidates for June’s European Parliament elections. The announcements were made one after another at Nicosia’s Filoxenia conference centre. Disy leader Annita ...

The 2023 US country report on human rights in Cyprus raised serious concerns over media freedom and life-threatening conditions in prison in the north. Published on Tuesday, it highlighted that ‘authorities’ ...

Cyprus has spent €40 million on hosting Ukrainian refugees, according to an Audit Office report released on Tuesday. Of this amount, so far the European Commission has refunded Cyprus to the ...

Over half of the domestic wine market is covered by Cypriot wines, the House commerce committee heard on Tuesday. The agriculture ministry estimates that 55 per cent of wines available in ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides has begun an independent investigation into the circumstances behind 24-year-old Anisur Rahman’s death, it emerged on Tuesday. Rahman, a Bangladeshi national, fell to his death ...

Whereas the government is doing all it can to contain and manage the influx of migrants, the situation could still spiral out of control especially if neighbouring Lebanon collapses as ...

Improvements to the coastal path in Limassol should be a government priority, members of the House commerce committee said on Tuesday but instead no-one from the interior ministry even attended ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) announced on Tuesday that there will be a scheduled power outage on Friday between the hours 9am and 10am in several areas. More specifically, ...

Head of the police branch of Isotita trade union Nikos Loizides on Tuesday said police chief Stelios Papatheodorou attempted to silence him and the union by sending him a “threatening ...

The audit office on Tuesday said it was ready to deal with any steps aimed at removing Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides from his post. “If they want to proceed today, ...

The government is “eagerly awaiting the completion of the construction works of the port in Gaza by the US” so that the Amalthea humanitarian aid mission can resume, President Nikos ...

A man was shot while driving his motorbike in Nicosia’s Lakatamia area in broad daylight on Tuesday. He sustained a gunshot wound to his neck and is now in ...

Some 706,534 people have registered to vote for the upcoming elections in June, chief returning officer Elikkos Ilias announced on Tuesday. Among the total number of registered voters, there are 568,608 Cypriots, ...