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The House legal affairs committee on Wednesday held an in-depth discussion about the spyware case investigated by the European parliament’s Pega committee and the involvement of Cyprus in the ...

Secondary school pupils will no longer be held back a year due to low performance, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Wednesday after the cabinet approved his ministry’s proposals. ...

Under heavy security, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay arrived in the north on Wednesday to visit the construction site of the controversial ‘Kulliye’ project, warning dissenters are at odds with ...

The interior ministry sought to defend itself on Wednesday after it emerged it ordered the deportation of Mohamed Kamara – a footballer from Sierra Leone who has lived in Cyprus for 20 ...

The Cypriot captain of the “Prudent Warrior” ship was repatriated on Wednesday, after months of being held in Iran in a diplomatic dispute between Athens and Tehran. According to a ...

The fashion industry currently contributes 10 per cent of all carbon emissions By Panayiotis Kleanthous As I was strolling around the streets of London on a Sunday afternoon, I came across ...

Once a year Cyprus police roll out their ‘human face’ during Police Week and talk about modernising the force and becoming ‘closer to the public’ with various social schemes. Polls ...

Although about 60 senior clerics are eligible to contest the throne of the archbishop, vacated after the passing of Chrysostomos II, in practice the race will come down to six or ...

Although it has been a difficult year for Cyprus tourism, 2022 has been a “very very good year” in terms of arrivals from the UK, Deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said ...

Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA when Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup hosting rights in 2010, told Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger “Qatar is a mistake,” adding that “the choice ...

With Cyprus feeling the impact of climate change including prolonged periods of drought and increased temperatures, the country is fully prepared to implement an action plan to combat these problems, ...

Cyprus has become a centre for the export of surveillance software in recent years, a report on the use of Pegasus software presented at the EU parliament on Tuesday by ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris’ numbers regarding HIV/AIDS cases in Pournara migrant reception centre were proven false as per documents presented to parliament in June by the Health Ministry Permanent ...

A book of condolences opened on Tuesday for the ‘extraodinary’ Archbishop Chrysostomos II at the Archbishopric in Nicosia. It will remain open until noon on Friday. “He was an extraordinary ...

With the passing of Archbishop Chrysostomos II, and the vacating of the throne, the caretaker of the Church of Cyprus will now initiate procedures for elections leading to the nomination ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who passed away on Monday morning, after a long battle with cancer, might not have been very interested in questions of the faith and spiritual matters, but ...

Ankara’s policy toward its neighbours can only be described as being driven by ‘insanity’, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Monday following talks in Athens with his Greek counterpart. ...

Cyprus has spent over €200 million in tackling Covid-19 since 2020 to date, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Monday. Presenting his ministry’s budget at the House finance committee, he outlined ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, head of the Autocephalous Church of Cyprus, has died aged 81 after a long battle with cancer. His funeral will be held on Saturday at 12pm at the ...

By Jean Christou and Kyriacos Iacovides If there was a way to sum up Archbishop Chrysostomos II, almost everyone would probably agree that he could be described as outspoken, bombastic ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday due to present the Cypriot initiative on climate change at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, which began on Sunday. However following the ...

Cypriots are making more frequent trips to the supermarket and buying less as means of controlling their spending, rather than filling up a trolley every few weeks or once a ...

Recent back and forth involving Unficyp has raised tensions It appears recent tensions between the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) and both sides on the island have subsided ...

As the European Commission is finding out, interfering with markets creates unintended consequences and eventually backfires The oil and gas companies cannot get it right, can they? They have been ...