Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday held a telephone conversation in which they discussed, among other things, “cooperation on security and defence”.
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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech on Wednesday that the commission intended to propose the creation of a new European firefighting hub based in Cyprus, ...
British actor Paul Anderson, best known for his role as Arthur Shelby in the acclaimed BBC/Netflix series Peaky Blinders, will be a special guest at this year’s Cyprus ...
Three of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July were released on bail on Wednesday.
All five appeared at a military court in Nicosia, where ...
Cyprus will spend the €1.1 billion loan from the EU’s SAFE programme over the next five years and will help boost Cyprus’ own defence industry, Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas announced ...
The parents of an infant hospitalised with a brain haemorrhage were remanded in custody for four days on Wednesday, after doctors said they were looking into shaken baby syndrome.
The ...
Veyzi Bandur was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for the premeditated murder of Turkish Cypriot Tansu Cidan, who died in the central prison in 2022.
Bandur had been found ...
More than 50 flights at Larnaca and Paphos airports will be affected by the three-hour strike on Thursday, Hermes Airports told the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday.
A representative said that “...
The government’s reform of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) is “a huge reform”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, just a day before a three-hour general strike called by the ...
Cyprus, as the host country of one of the longest-running peacekeeping operations in the world, is fully aware of the necessity of sustaining a UN force to prevent the recurrence ...
By Athena Eftychiou
Similar to the rest of the Mediterranean and even the east coast of the UK from where I’m currently writing this, Cyprus has been experiencing some ...
Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday met Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi for a “results-oriented discussion” regarding the two countries’ efforts to exploit natural gas from under the seabed ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night issued a 1,000-word statement – his second of this year’s election campaign so far – criticising efforts towards a federal solution to the ...
Turkish Cypriot journalist Canan Onurer said she has received death threats after refusing to retract a report on alleged criminal activity involving individuals who had recently arrived on the island ...
The European Commission on Thursday approved the disbursement of over €1 billion to Cyprus as part of its Security Action for Europe (Safe) programme.
In total, Cyprus will receive exactly €1,181,503,924, while 18 ...
MPs on Tuesday gave the government a two-week deadline to enforce the law – which they say obliges car dealers to check and replace faulty Takata airbags free of charge – otherwise ...
Former House president Demetris Syllouris will not take the stand in the ongoing golden passports trial against him, his lawyer Chris Triantafyllides told the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday.
Instead, ...
Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday said there are “manifest interests” working to ensure that the Great Sea Interconnector will never be constructed.
The project, if completed, will connect ...
Israel remains committed to the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), an Israeli government official told local media on Tuesday, amid apparent discord between Cyprus and Greece over the mammoth project.
An ...
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for the humanitarian aid sent in August and called on the member states to take further action, during a ...
Five prosecution witnesses testified about land in the north developed by Israeli property developer Simon Aykut as his trial continued on Tuesday.
One of the five is a land registry ...
Cyprus recorded an alarming increase of 52.4 per cent in greenhouse gas emissions between 1999 and 2023, while the rest of the EU recorded notable decreases, newly released Eurostat data shows.
And Green ...
A security guard was hospitalised with burns to the face after a group of young men reportedly attacked him with a gas cylinder at a primary school in Ypsonas on ...
The government is committed to implementing pension reform, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday.
“One of the greatest needs in our country is to reform a state still operating with ...