#Cyprus

The government’s goal is to bring the social insurance system into the 21st century, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (...

A year and a half since traffic cameras were introduced not a single unpaid fine has been registered in court. According to police information, the proportion of unpaid notices, known ...

The 3+1 Mechanism is the key to expanding the agenda and ensuring the acceleration of the cooperation process, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said at the Eastern Mediterranean Business Summit in New ...

Electric scooters are causing problems in Paphos, police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Tuesday, since local authorities have not made provision for their conditions of use. In the past year, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday attended the annual memorial service held for the thirteen people who died in explosions at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari twelve years ago. “...

A marathon session in parliament on Monday failed to avoid a showdown at the House plenum for later this week, where MPs will be voting on a contentious bill tabled ...

A 53-year-old man on Monday pleaded not guilty to burglary charges brought against him for incidents in July 2022. On Monday, the man appeared in the Larnaca-Famagusta Criminal Court, where a ...

Cyprus is lagging behind in the implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Paris agreement on climate change, according to a press release issued by the UN Sustainable ...

New conscripts on Monday started to take up their 14-momth posts in the National Guard in a process that will last until Friday. Recruits have to enlist on the specified ...

Police on Monday were investigating a case of fraud and money extortion of over 250 thousand euros. The victim, a 78-year-old Limassol resident, at the end of June received a bank ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos will present to legislators on Monday a government package of seven proposals to address the issue of foreclosures. The package was submitted on Thursday in a ...

The preservation of our memory, our national character and our tradition, as well as any worthwhile effort to preserve monuments and sacred relics, constitute a strong counterweight to any Turkish ...

Famagusta district court on Sunday renewed a remand order for two people aged 66 and 65, over their connection with obtaining €96,000 from elderly people by pretending to be doctors. They were remanded ...

In the mid-20th century, excavations at an ancient city caused a massive row between two archaeologists but answered the question of when the Greeks first settled in Cyprus A ...

The government has complete faith in the responsibility of all political parties to rise to the occasion and do the right thing in tackling foreclosures and non-performing loans (NPLS), government ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou refrained from commenting on Saturday over concerns that EU funding for the EuroAsia Interconnector is at risk due to delays in meeting milestones. Speaking to the ...

The funeral for Andreas Georgiou whose fate was unknown since the 1974 invasion, was held on Saturday after his remains were identified through DNA testing. “His parents Stavros and Athena endured ...

A 62-year-old man with burns on over 80 per cent of his body was being treated at the Nicosia general hospital on Saturday. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said two fire ...

Horse owners frequently take their horses to a beach in Larnaca, highlighting the benefits to their health as a result of the sea water. The horses are often race horses ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has urged the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to heed the call of the Security Council and appoint a UN envoy to facilitate the resumption of the ...

A 50-year-old man who was injured at sea was rescued off the Geroskipou coast on Friday night. The joint search and rescue centre was notified at 7:27pm from the marine ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will discuss the Cyprus issue with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the upcoming Nato summit despite it not being on the official agenda, ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides expressed his “objections and reservations” regarding supplementary budgets for Cyprus’s two state universities, the University of Cyprus, and the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) on Friday. ...

The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Tiny Kox, extended an invite on Friday to President Nikos Christodoulides to speak at a future PACE plenary ...