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Ensuring the effective operation of the national health scheme (Gesy) will be the top priority for new Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides, who on Monday described it as “perhaps the most ...

The minimum wage is set to rise to €1,125, outgoing labour minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday during the formal handover to the new minister Marinos Moushiouttas. He said the increase ...

Cyprus supports new ideas to address migration pressures, deputy migration minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Monday, as he outlined the priorities of the upcoming EU council presidency in Brussels. He ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Monday said he will submit amendments to the government’s tax reform bills to parliament on Tuesday as he appeared in front of the House ...

The first wave of flamingos has arrived at Larnaca’s salt lake, but experts warned on Monday the population on the island has declined by up to 31 per cent over ...

Eighteen mouflon have been successfully released back into the wild, the forestry department said over the weekend. They were released from the Stavros tis Psokas on Friday. The operation marks ...

The presence of American multinational energy corporation Chevron in Cyprus’ maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ) constitutes a “vote of confidence” in the energy potential of both Cyprus and Europe, President ...

The multinational “Perseas-2025” military exercise has concluded successfully, bringing together forces from Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the defence ministry said on Monday. Conducted between November 30 and December 5, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday urged his new ministers to “work tirelessly” as they were sworn in after his announcement of a cabinet reshuffle on Friday evening. He told them ...

Cypriot Greek speakers may soon be understood by the same voice-activated systems that routinely struggle with the island’s dialect, thanks to a breakthrough speech-to-text AI model developed by a ...

Sila Usar Incirli, the leader of Turkish Cypriot opposition political party the CTP, on Sunday said early legislative elections in the north are “inevitable”, as her party seeks a return ...

The road linking Polis Chrysochous and Latchi was closed on Sunday as heavy rainfall brought about by Storm Byron caused floods in the town and the region. With heavy rainfall ...

Edek will remain in the government following an extraordinary meeting of the party’s political bureau held in light of a cabinet reshuffle which the party had earlier said showed ...

There have been “no developments” in efforts to lift the Turkish government’s ban on Cypriot-flagged ships entering its ports, Shipping Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanolis said on Sunday. Speaking on ...

Rain will continue to fall in Cyprus until Thursday, met office senior officer Panayiotis Georgiou said on Sunday. He told the Cyprus News Agency that the eye of Storm Byron ...

In the halcyon days of 2016 when there still seemed to be hopes for progress in the Cyprus talks, the Imagine programme offered the potential to turn the page on the ...

Cyprus’ long-running debate over who can claim halloumi intensified recently after a new statue in Pissouri drew waves of online attention and revived an old dispute over the cheese’s ...

Greek Cypriot chief negotiator Menelaos Menelaou and undersecretary to the Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Dana will hold a one-on-one meeting before President Nikos Christodoulides, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, and ...

A British member of parliament from the country’s ruling Labour Party has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Girne American University in Kyrenia, the university announced on Sunday. ...

A fresh yellow weather warning for rain and storms on Sunday was issued by the met office on Saturday evening as Storm Byron’s effect begins to be felt in ...

The European Union’s envoy for the Cyprus problem Johannes Hahn is to return to Cyprus next week, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Speaking after President Nikos Christodoulides’ ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Saturday promised that Friday’s cabinet reshuffle will have no effect on Cyprus’ preparations to undertake the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency ...

Edek leader Nikos Anastasiou on Saturday ruled out the prospect of his party withdrawing its support for the government after his party had hours earlier released a statement expressing fury ...

The European Commission has allocated €2.3 million from the European Union solidarity fund to help Cyprus recover from the extensive wildfires which broke out in the Limassol and Paphos districts in ...