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Lawmakers on Tuesday called for legislation that would guarantee compensatory benefits to the residents of communities located near the highly polluting Dhekelia power station. MPs also said the law should ...

Antonis Antoniou, who worked as an Operations Manager for the Giovani Group and was as such indicted for his role in the alleged illegal naturalisations brought to light by news ...

After basking in exceptionally high temperatures for the last few days, Cyprus will see a huge drop on Thursday with the met office predicting a 12C plunge. “The temperature will ...

In the wake of the fatal shipwreck off Cape Greco, the government was on Tuesday blasted for failing to address the underlying issues of the ongoing migration crisis. At least ...

A Russian fugitive who had been detained in Cyprus for three years before being extradited to Russia to be tried for large-scale fraud was awarded damages by the European Court ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday “where there’s a will, there’s a way” as the expanded informal five-party meeting got underway at the UN building in Geneva. The ...

It is increasingly unlikely that more survivors will be found from the boat that capsized off Cape Greco following the retrieval of seven bodies, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on ...

One of the 24 charges of money laundering and defrauding faced by the two accused Avakoum monastery monks, Nektarios and Porfyrios, was amended on Tuesday at the Nicosia criminal court at ...

The trial concerning the high-profile ‘golden passport’ case involving former transport minister Marios Demetriades and several others has been postponed until April 25, the Nicosia Criminal Court ruled on Tuesday. The ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will most likely reappoint Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar as his envoy to Cyprus to prepare the ground for a second meeting of the Cyprus problem, following ...

President Nikos Christodoulides held a one-on-one meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan following the six-party meal which officially kicked off the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in the ...

Greek opposition figures on Monday reacted with fury after the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed as his Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos, who had previously referred to northern ...

A boat with a reported 21 people aboard capsized off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, with seven people having been confirmed as dead so far. The boat was reportedly located ...

The government has gone back to the drawing board to tweak its bills regarding multiple pensions given to certain state officials, MPs heard on Monday. An official with the finance ...

The prospect of setting up a coordinating body to monitor the implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings for cases concerning the Republic of Cyprus was discussed on ...

Cyprus Post has issued a set of special edition stamps celebrating four vintage motorcycles on display at the Cyprus Museum of Classical Motorcycles in Nicosia, which this year is celebrating ...

Trade unions on Monday warned about potential power blackouts following curtailments in photovoltaic energy production. In the statement, unions representing the Cyprus electricity authority (EAC) – including the organisation of EAC ...

A neurosurgeon will be paying €170,000 in compensation to a patient for medical negligence, after the doctor’s appeal was thrown out by the Supreme Court last week, it was announced ...

Fire service authorities on Monday raised concerns that some of the recent fires in Larnaca and Paphos may have been deliberately set, according to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis. Speaking ...

Limassol’s municipal council on Monday rejected a €43,000 security fee requested by the police for this year’s carnival parade, igniting a larger conversation about how policing for public events ...

Reports by environmentalists of illegal refreshment stands springing up in Akamas need to be verified, the interior ministry said on Monday. “The Paphos district administration will visit the spots where ...

A damaged section of the pedestrian walkway on Piale Pasha street on Larnaca seafront will be completely repaired, the municipality said on Monday. The damage has been caused by constant ...

THE Frequent solar power curtailments and delayed renewable energy projects threaten to worsen the nation’s energy crisis has led to mounting frustration from the public and lawmakers. At the ...

A bizonal, bicommunal, federal solution to the Cyprus problem is “the only option”, President Nikos Christodoulides said in a televised address to the nation on Saturday evening. “I would like ...