#Cyprus

Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos is closely monitoring developments in Sudan and is staying informed of the situation, especially with regard to Cypriots living in the country, the Foreign Ministry ...

The effects of climate change in Cyprus are becoming all the more apparent, Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou said on Saturday, marking World Earth Day. “Protecting the environment should be a ...

A new bill approved by the council of ministers on Friday will aim to strengthen the public’s trust in tap water, Health Minister Popi Kanari said. Speaking after the ...

The cabinet on Friday approved an interior ministry proposal to review the criteria for the naturalisation of third country nationals. According to Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, the proposal is mainly ...

Deputy Minister for Culture Michalis Hatzigiannis on Friday attempted to give some kind of closure to a recent blunder by his office after an official post was made by his ...

The Open University of Cyprus said on Friday it was continuing to cooperate with authorities on the hack of its database, even after a first tranche of files were made ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said Cyprus needed to follow the examples of other European countries and that both sides of the divide need to learn and respect each other’...

The Union of Cypriot Pensioners (Ekysy) has called on the state to assist with the cost of medicines which are not covered by the national health care system (Gesy). The ...

Diabetes type 2 injectable, Ozempic, a drug not regulated by the national health scheme (Gesy) is in general shortage in Cyprus, as people rush to take part in an international weight ...

Hackers on Thursday made good on their threat to release a trove of personal data – potentially terabytes of it – grabbed from the Open University of Cyprus, after a deadline for ...

Prices for food and retail prices had a marked increase in March this year, with items such as water seeing a 12 per cent hike in the span of a month, ...

More than 4,000 accounts held by Russians in Cypriot banks could be closed over the next two months following the imposition of sanctions on a number of individuals in Cyprus, by ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari called the ongoing understaffing issues at the A&E department of the Paphos general hospital “unacceptable” following a three-hour work stoppage carried out by doctors ...

Around 2,000 new job openings in the public sector are expected to be made in the next two months, while 114 promotions for existing positions are also on the cards, reports said ...

Dozens of people on Thursday held a demonstration in front of the supreme court in Nicosia to protest the upcoming extradition of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz to Germany. Ayaz was ...

Opposition party Akel on Wednesday latched onto the developments surrounding the sanctions saying Cyprus has earned a horrific name for itself across the globe, with the previous government “closing its ...

Cancer rates among children in Cyprus are among the highest in the world, according to Loizos Loizou, professor of paediatrics, paediatric oncology, and immunology at the of the University of ...

A national sanctions implementation unit will be set up in Cyprus, which will cooperate with the respective department in the UK, the government announced on Wednesday. The decision came at ...

Police in Cyprus have lost track of an Israeli professor who was arrested on February 16 at Larnaca airport on suspicion of arms trafficking to Libya and China between 2015 and 2023. Prior ...

The Bank of Cyprus has begun notifying its clients who are Russian citizens that their accounts will be closed, the Russian edition of Forbes magazine reported on Tuesday. Forbes cited ...

United Nations Development Programme Cyprus stressed its commitment to protecting the island’s cultural heritage on the occasion of the World Heritage Day. In a post on twitter, UNPD said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday he will soon travel to EU member states to discuss his proposal regarding a more active EU involvement in breaking the deadlock to the ...

What do Russian oligarch Abramovich and Chelsea football club have in common? Links to Cyprus apparently. In a series of exclusive reports dubbed ‘Oligarch files’ published by The Guardian on ...

Cyprus recorded the highest excess mortality among EU member states this February while the union as a whole recorded no monthly excess mortality for the first time since the Covid-19 ...