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President Nikos Christodoulides will pay an official visit to Bahrain on Sunday and Monday following an invitation from the country’s king, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. The ...

Cyprus “could take a decisive step” towards joining Europe’s open-border Schengen zone as soon as this spring, European Internal Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner said on Friday. Speaking to the ...

Closer coordination of forces across the EU are essential to combating organised crime, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris accounted on Friday. Speaking at the end of the two-day informal meeting of ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Friday said the government will bolster the island’s capacity to desalinate water, as Cyprus battles an ongoing water shortage. She said that two new ...

Commitment to freedom of the press and freedom of expression is not a priority of any single administration but an obligation of every government, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

Five men, including a 22-year-old National Guard contract soldier, appeared in the Larnaca district court on Friday after being arrested on Thursday night as part of a police sting operation ...

A bill to abolish the social support agency was submitted to the plenum on Thursday, bringing the future of the fund directly before parliament. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail on ...

Disy MP Nikos Sykas is preparing an appeal to the Supreme Court, challenging his removal from the party’s parliamentary election ballot, following an allegation of domestic violence made by ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin, President Nikos Christodoulides, and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will hold a tripartite meeting next Wednesday, the UN’s office in Cyprus said on ...

Two men identified as “prominent businessmen”, aged 47 and 43, were remanded in custody for four days by the Larnaca District Court on Friday, in connection to last weekend’s shooting in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday night denied that relations between the European Union and the United States have been “irreparably damaged” in light of US President Donald Trump’s ramping ...

The European Commission “fully” supports Cyprus joining the continent’s open-border Schengen zone, Internal Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner said on Thursday night. “We fully support Cyprus in joining the Schengen ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides on Thursday called on the European Union to adapt its defence capabilities so as to be able to protect itself against drone ...

Hotels and tourist premises operating without a full license got yet another reprieve on Thursday, as parliament voted through a law allowing them to acquire a ‘special operating permit’. The ...

Parliamentary scrutiny of the social support fund intensified on Thursday as lawmakers pressed for a full list of donors following a video alleging corruption and influence at the presidential palace. ...

Cyprus should move beyond a piecemeal approach to wildfires and adopt a comprehensive prevention and adaptation strategy, according to a report by the European Council of Science Academies (EASAC). The ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman next Tuesday, UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) spokesman Aleem Siddique confirmed ...

Complaints made by MPs, police officers and members of the public have led to the issuance of 13 arrest warrants against social media personality Ioanna Fotiou, known online as ‘Annie Alexui’, ...

The Cypriot government is waiting for the European Union to formulate a common position before deciding whether it will join United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace, ...

A solution resembling that of the United Kingdom’s sovereign base areas on Cyprus has been suggested as a potential way to resolve an ongoing dispute between United States President ...

Mazotos community council on Thursday called for the immediate suspension of the installation of a desalination plant in the area on Thursday, warning that the project threatens protected marine habitats ...

The Paphos district government organisation (EOA) is on alert, with four crews on standby as extreme weather is expected to strike the region, EOA president Charalambos Pittokopitis said on Thursday. “...

A tense debate erupted on Wednesday in the parliamentary legal committee over reform to police working hours, with police chief, Themistos Arnaoutis. standing firm despite strong opposition from unions. The ...

Calls grew on Wednesday for the case regarding the collapse of the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which killed 72 people, including 35 Cypriots, to be taken to ...