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Attorney-general George Savvides said on Monday his office will be turning over part of the report into the 2005 death of a soldier to the family after they had repeatedly requested ...

A 25-year-old man remained in hospital on Monday after being seriously injured during violence following Sunday night’s football match between Apoel and Ael at Nicosia’s GSP stadium. Fans ...

Environmentalists on Monday expressed concern that the Akamas regional plan, which is currently being scrutinised by the planning department, will get caught up in a web of pre-electoral political machinations. ...

‘Petty politics’ has seen two ministers argue with the auditor general this week in a war of words that does not look like it is going anywhere The government is ...

KYPROULLA celebrated its 62nd anniversary of independence on Saturday with the traditional military parade, held in the sweltering Nicosia heat, which proved no deterrent to crowds of people turning up ...

Greece wants to have a constructive dialogue with Turkey based on international law but its Aegean neighbour must halt its unprecedented escalation of provocations, the Greek foreign minister said on ...

In his speech at the Cyprus Forum on Thursday, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative Colin Stewart said he was extremely concerned because “the option of a mutually agreed settlement ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday, on which 62 years of independence was marked, paid his respects to all those who gave their lives fighting for freedom from colonialism. “Thanks to their ...

We will not be drawn into what Turkey is pretending to invoke in order to further strengthen the occupying forces, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday after attending a military ...

Immigrant flows through the buffer zone were the subject of meetings held in New York on Friday by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris, which he described as very important. The minister ...

A wide-ranging bill tabled to parliament has set out to totally overhaul regulations for owning a dog, it emerged on Friday. A €300 fine for not picking up dog poop in ...

WE doubt any other subject has been given as much time by the legislature’s committees as talking about Gesy and its related bodies, state medical services Okypy which runs ...

A defiant Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s annexation of a swathe of Ukraine in a pomp-filled Kremlin ceremony, promising Moscow would triumph in its “special military operation” even as he ...

The new energy measures adopted by the EU take into account the peculiarities of individual member states like Cyprus, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Friday after participating alongside her ...

The finance ministry will do what is necessary in consultation with the president, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday in relation to the government dropping consultations with Hermes airports ...

Cyprus will seek judgement from international bodies over Turkish provocations, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Friday, a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara would station more ...

Prison guard members of the Isotita union held protests over their pay grades for the 12th consecutive day on Friday, upping pressure on the government as they gathered outside the ...

Local problems fall into insignificance in the face of the climate crisis and there only a narrow window to act, Noam Chomsky said in a recorded interview presented at the ...

The government’s withdrawal from talks with airport operators Hermes is but a smokescreen intended to put the kibosh on the affair and kick the can down the road, a ...

The Nicosia Central Prison was given a full episode on the Netflix series Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, made by Raphael Rowe, who had served 12 years in British jails, ...

Three of the presidential candidates said the trust of the Turkish Cypriots needs to be won back, and that more should have been done to invest in their community. Speaking ...

The scenario of a mutually agreed solution to the Cyprus problem is fading and would not be available much longer UN Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart said on Thursday. ...

Hoteliers and businesses are disappointed by the government decision to suspend financial incentives to airlines to use Larnaca and Paphos airports, they said on Thursday. The director-general of the Cyprus ...

Turkey will reinforce its military presence in the north after the United States lifted defence trade restrictions on Cyprus, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said. Speaking in a televised interview with ...