A total of 52 Cypriots who are currently in Israel have requested to return to the island amid the country’s escalating conflict with Iran and the cancellation of flights to ...
Next month’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set to take place in New York, is to go ahead “despite the negative stance of the Turkish side”, ...
More flights to and from Cyprus in the Middle East were cancelled on Saturday as the conflict between Israel and Iran continued to escalate.
Nine incoming flights from Tel Aviv ...
Cyprus’ role in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran is “purely humanitarian”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday.
Speaking to journalists outside Dipa’s party conference, he said the ...
Missiles were visible from the Cypriot towns of Famagusta, Larnaca, Trikomo and even Limassol on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning as Iran launched retaliatory strikes on ...
President of the Paphos regional water authority Charalambos Pittokopitis said that the water supply in Paphos was “at a good and manageable level,” though difficulties with irrigation remain.
In a ...
The committee formed to lobby for the re-opening of Makarios Avenue to cars insisted on Friday it was the correct course of action and believes the EU cash that partly ...
The Green Party on Friday said it had delivered to police 33 new cases involving the usurpation of Greek Cypriot properties in the north.
The data was delivered to CID in ...
The family of Thanasis Nicolaou, a conscript who was killed in 2005, will pursue private legal action after the attorney-general’s office refused to press charges, effectively closing the door on ...
Staff at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre staged a one-hour work stoppage on Friday, from 10am to 11am, demanding the reinstatement of a dismissed colleague.
Trade unions Sek and ...
The Electricity Market Association (EMA) on Friday expressed concern over last-minute changes to the competitive electricity market, just weeks before its planned launch.
It said regulatory changes to the guidelines ...
All flights between Cyprus and Israel, both arrivals and departures, were due to be suspended on Friday in the wake of the early morning Israeli attack on Iran.
According to ...
Estia plan activated, police on alert
President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he hoped there would be no further escalation in the region in the wake of Israel’s air ...
A 75-year-old man who suffered serious injuries Saturday while attempting to cross a road in the Larnaca district village of Ormidia while a charity cycle race was ongoing, died in ...
As the UK keeps its distance for now from the growing conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the British bases in Cyprus say they did not participate in Israel’s ...
In taking a decision to re-open Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue to traffic, Cyprus has risked its credibility with the EU, Greens MP Charalambos Theopemptou said on Thursday.
Theopemptou, the chairman ...
MPs on Thursday agreed to let the government keep covering the deficits of the state health services organisation (Okypy) until the end of next year, apparently satisfied with the organisation’...
The newly launched e-Kalathi application, designed to help consumers compare prices on basic goods, has received mixed reviews from both consumer advocates and supermarket representatives. While its potential is acknowledged, ...
A host of problems, such as large water losses, ageing networks, a failure to utilise recycled water, unequal pricing policies and the energy dependence of desalination plants, were raised at ...
Shopkeepers and residents in Strovolos have created a resistance group to oppose plans for a roundabout and widening of a road in the Nicosia suburb, saying it will destroy trade ...
A man is facing up to five years in jail in the north for “insulting the president” after referring to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar as a “circus monkey” in ...
A man has been handed a 173,876TL (€3,852) fine after feeding cigarettes to a wild donkey in Karpasia, the Turkish Cypriot police said.
A video of the cigarettes being fed to ...
The north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Wednesday night reacted with fury to the Republic’s Education Minister Athena Michaelidou’s praise of Eoka, the paramilitary group formed with ...
Many of the 297 contract police officers who are to leave the force when their contracts expire will be “absorbed” back into the police through new hiring initiatives, the justice ministry ...