#Cyprus

The funeral service for Katie Clerides, who died on Monday at the age of 76 after battling cancer, was held on Wednesday in Nicosia, among relatives, friends, politicians, members of the ...

The military court where the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north are standing trial will hand down its verdict next week, after the final defence witness was ...

Marios Charalambides was appointed on Wednesday by the cabinet as the first patients’ ombudsman. In statements after the meeting, Health Minister Michalis Damianos spoke of a historic day for the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has said he would apply for Nato membership right away if he knew he would get a positive answer, but in the meantime preparations are being made ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday rejected crucial evidence in the case of a German real estate agent accused of seizing Greek Cypriot properties in the north. The court ruled ...

Allegations of on-call specialists at state hospitals being paid for not being at work are not what they seem, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. ...

Two confidential defence ministry letters regarding installations and defence projects along the buffer zone found their way into an environmental impact study, which was subsequently published online through the government’...

A low-pressure system named Barbara brought unsettled weather to Cyprus, causing disruptions to the EAC and hazardous road conditions overnight on Tuesday. The meteorological service had issued a yellow warning ...

The Civil Defence force has issued safety guidance following a warning from the meteorological department about isolated strong storms and high winds expected to affect Cyprus. The weather is likely ...

The bomb squad on Tuesday neutralised a grenade dating to the 1950s, discovered at an almost dried-up reservoir. The extremely low water levels at the Xyliatos dam, in Nicosia district, ...

The government is “committed to social dialogue,” Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday, expressing optimism that agreement on the cost of living allowance (CoLA) can still be achieved despite ...

A batch of pork sheftalia was recalled by the health ministry on Tuesday after it was found to contain dangerous levels of salmonella. The ministry said it had detected the ...

Half of the electorate is uncertain about their vote, a parliamentary elections poll revealed on Monday night. The poll revealed that 73 per cent of the electorate believe the country is ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday called on his counterparts from the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) to “remove the unfair isolation suffered by the Turkish Cypriot people”. Addressing ...

Specialist on-call doctors at the Larnaca general hospital are being paid without turning up to work, according to a report released by the audit office on Tuesday. The report stated ...

Turkish Cypriots may lose their citizenship of the European Union after a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem, opposition political party CTP ‘MP’ Ongun Talat, the son of former Turkish ...

There is “no crisis” between Cyprus and Greece over the matter of the Great Sea Interconnector, President Nikos Christodoulides insisted on Tuesday amid an open rift between the two countries ...

The north’s ‘parliamentary’ legal affairs committee on Monday discussed a draft resolution demanding a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. The draft resolution was signed by various members of ...

All signs point to an imminent agreement on the cost of living allowance (CoLa) between trade unions and employer organisations, with further meetings of Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou and Finance ...

Five vehicles were involved in a traffic crash early on Monday evening on Larnaca’s Eleftheria avenue, which left three drivers hospitalised. “Three of the five drivers of the vehicles ...

The Miracle Babies association on Monday called for the urgent intervention by the auditor-general and deputy minister to the President over the expansion and upgrade of the neonatal intensive care ...

An investigation into whether offences were committed by officers during last Thursday’s protest for Gaza at the foreign ministry is to be launched by the independent authority for the ...

Television and social media continued to be the main source of information for 72 per cent of the public, with 44 per cent stressing that misinformation and fake news were a major ...

The unannounced inspections carried out by audit service officials at the accident and emergency departments of Limassol and Nicosia general hospital on October 1 marked a “flagrant abuse of power”, doctors’ ...