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Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Thursday denied reports that the governments of Cyprus, Israel, and Greece are planning to combine to create a military “rapid reaction force” to counter Turkish ...

Recent images of Larnaca secondary school pupils performing Nazi salutes and emblazoning swastikas on campus came to light on Wednesday and prompted great alarm among parents and the wider public. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday said the European Union must “confront” countries which attempt to help Russia evade sanctions placed on it as a result of its invasion of Ukraine. ...

Tractors were stationed line astern outside the presidential palace on Thursday as Cypriot farmers joined a continent-wide protest against planned changes to the European Union’s common agricultural policy and ...

Five of Cyprus’ six members of the European parliament on Wednesday night voted to approve a motion empowering the parliament to enter negotiations with the European Council for the creation ...

Primary and secondary education teachers went on strike on Thursday over the new evaluation system expected to be sent to the House plenum on Monday. Poed, Oelmek and Isotita have ...

Trikomo district court on Wednesday decided to lift charges against one of the two Greek Cypriots who were arrested with three others in the north in July. The two stood ...

Senior air force commanders from Greece, Israel and Cyprus held a confidential meeting in Nicosia on Wednesday, reportedly regarding further security cooperation. According to Israel’s KAN News, Israeli air ...

A French court has rejected an extradition request filed by the Republic of Cyprus regarding a man whom it accuses of developing property on land in the north owned by ...

Iran summoned Cyprus’ ambassador in Tehran Petros Nacouzis and issued him a written objection after the Cypriot government issued a joint declaration with the United Arab Emirates on Sunday declaring ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project will not “collapse”, Energy Minister Michael Damianos said on Wednesday, stressing that “there is no question” of such a thing happening. Speaking to CyBC radio, ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Tuesday night reiterated his demand for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem to the Turkish Cypriot legislature as it deliberated his ‘...

The attorney for one of the defendants in the ‘golden passports’ trial told the court on Tuesday that his client should be acquitted of all charges, while accusing prosecutors of ...

France “could and should play a leading role” in efforts to solve the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. He told French newspaper Le Figaro that he has “...

Joining Nato “would be a natural development” for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he said that “if it were possible for Cyprus ...

Disability rights groups on Tuesday demanded that the government offer them more financial benefits, saying that the government’s current plans to raise the total budget for disability benefits to €45 ...

The Greek Cypriot side is ready for a new enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem “as soon as possible”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday. “From our side, at ...

The education ministry has confirmed that the bicommunal Imagine programme will resume in January, following changes to its framework and the reissuing of circulars to schools. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, ...

Construction waste was illegally dumped while a police station in the Troodos mountain village of Evrychou was being built, according to a report released by the audit office on Tuesday. ...

Parents’ groups on Tuesday strongly criticised a planned teachers’ strike, warning that students are being used as “leverage” for the union’s demands. The Pancyprian confederation of parents’ associations said ...

Cyprus has voted in favour of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination after a resolution was put to the United Nations’ general assembly’s third committee in New ...

Less than half of the north’s workforce are Cypriots, independent Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Aysegul Baybars said on Monday night. Addressing the Turkish Cypriot legislature as it debated the north’...

Radical measures were proposed on Monday by the scientific and technical chamber Etek as part of a broader effort to revitalise the centre of Nicosia. Presenting conclusions of a recent ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Monday described last week’s tripartite meeting she held with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman as “a very good ...