#Cyprus

The House plenum on Thursday evening approved the 2025 budget for the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) amid a lively debate over the delays in the advent of natural gas for ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

MPs on Thursday called for Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou to intervene on the matter of smart bus stops, with some quarters having alleged that they have been erected the wrong way ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...

The Consumer Protection Service has issued its first fine for violating the maximum resale price of drinking water in designated areas. The fine was imposed on CE Sportcourt Ltd, the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday unveiled a raft of proposed amendments to laws concerning local government, with the stated aim of “improving the legislative framework for the benefit of ...

Plans for a new solar farm to be built in the buffer zone which separates Cyprus’ two sides appear to have reached something of a deadlock after Wednesday’s meeting ...

Dates were set on Thursday for the next hearings of the trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

The health ministry spent more than €10 million sending Cypriot patients abroad to receive treatment in 2022, the audit office announced on Wednesday. In a report written on the health ministry’s ...

The European Union is “committed to supporting Cyprus on its journey towards reunification”, European parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Wednesday. Addressing a European parliament debate on the Cyprus problem, ...

The outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar demonstrates their commitment, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Speaking to ...

The European Commission on Wednesday disbursed €76.9 million to Cyprus as its third tranche under its Recovery and Resilience facility. The disbursement of the funds comes after the commission had last ...

MPs on Wednesday called for the police to halt plans to serve people with notification of previously incurred traffic fines at ports of entry and exit to the Republic of ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas has denied allegations regarding the selection of personnel for the presidential aircraft, dismissing them as “unfounded and misleading”. His response follows reports by the daily newspaper ...

Restoration work at the Timios Prodromos church in the village of Lapathos, which is located between Lefkoniko and Trikomo, has been completed, bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage co-chairman Sotos ...

Wednesday’s meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was “yet another positive step” with progress including youth issues, demining and restoration of cemeteries, President Nikos Christodoulides said after the ...

As of Wednesday, all non-British passport holders travelling to the UK will have to obtain a visa called an Electronic Travel Authorisation or ETA. Applications are made online or via ...

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides is leading a high-level delegation to the United States on Wednesday, aiming to attract investment in shipping, technology and energy. The visit includes stops in New ...

Jack Afik, son of Israeli land developer Simon Aykut, charged with the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north, is suing the government for millions of euros in compensation ...

Former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three of the eight charges he faces regarding the forgery of his high school diploma, university degree and other documents. ...

A report on the controversial roadworks in the Akamas national forest park has been handed to the members of an ad hoc committee appointed to evaluate the work, which they ...

Global movement to support the Palestinian struggle BDS Cyprus on Tuesday called on the government to deny access to Cyprus’ airspace to the plane carrying Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Police on Tuesday announced seven new arrests in connection with the clashes that erupted in Limassol’s Ayia Phyla on Friday night. Late on Tuesday afternoon, police announced the arrest ...