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In a counterattack after being accused of breaking the law over presidential campaign finances, President Nikos Christodoulides stressed on Friday he would allow no one to accuse him of corruption ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday pressed allies for ironclad security guarantees against any renewed Russian attack while also seeking progress on EU membership talks and tougher sanctions on Moscow. ...

United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres has said that recent informal meetings in an expanded format during 2025, along with contacts between the President Nikos Christodoulides and newly-elected Turkish Cypriot leader ...

Positions remain hardened over a recently announced police reform aimed at adjusting working hours and holiday regulations for officers of all ranks, with police unions threatening protests following a meeting ...

The state of cemeteries in Cyprus is “not very encouraging”, the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage’s Turkish Cypriot co-chairman Ali Tuncay said on Thursday. He was speaking to ...

The year 2026 will begin with a “landmark moment” for Cyprus, with the island taking on the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency for a six-month term, President Nikos ...

Greek Cypriot farmers were harassed and physically threatened by members of the Turkish army and police in the buffer zone village of Mammari on Tuesday. The attacked farmer, Gavriel Yerolemou ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Monday again denied reports of a planned joint rapid-response force among Cyprus, Greece and Israel, but confirmed the recent signing of a trilateral work plan ...

This year was one of the most charged for justice in Cyprus, with 13 large and complex cases occupying Cyprus courts, from the deaths of minors to corruption scandals, property usurpation ...

The loose ends left in the energy sector this year will inevitably get rolled into 2026, experts tell the Cyprus Mail. In practice, this means that persistent high electricity prices and ...

Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Friday that the government had struck a “golden balance” on the increase to the national minimum wage, which will apply for the next two ...

Shepherds and Christmas go together like crumpets and tea – but they’re mostly NPCs, as the kids say. They do their own thing, watching their flocks by night as the ...

Christmas is a time of coming together for many of us. Families and friends come together, moving from home to home – and in some cases, from country to country – to ...

Parliament on Monday approved the long-awaited sweeping tax reform package, voting through five of the six bills submitted by the government. It is the most extensive reform to the system ...

It’s all fun and games until you need the official documents. This is what a couple from the UK, visiting the island every year since 1981, found out when they ...

The breaching of sanctions against Russia by third countries impacts the effectiveness of the measures, President Nikos Christodoulides said early on Friday after a night-long European Council session, which spent ...

The state budget for 2026 was approved by parliament on Wednesday, with 37 MPs voting in its favour and 19 voting against. Votes in favour came from MPs from the three parties which ...

The impact of climate change will hit Cyprus’ economy, a study released on Tuesday said, projecting that as much as €29 billion will be lost from the island’s gross domestic ...

Parliament will hold a vote on the government’s tax reform next week, MPs decided on Monday. The vote at the House plenum will take place on Monday, December 22 – cutting ...

Both before and after Thursday’s tripartite meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin, and likely during it as well, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

More than half of people aged between 18 and 25 years old have not yet registered to vote in May’s parliamentary elections, while the total number of eligible but unregistered voters ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman agreed “that the real aim is the solution of the Cyprus problem with political equality as described by the United Nations ...

The Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture warned of “serious problems” at Cyprus’ central prison in Nicosia and said it had “grave concerns” over “the high ...

One man has died after severe floods hit swathes of northern Cyprus on Monday night and Tuesday. The man, named as 57-year-old Ercin Fevzi, had been missing since Monday night, ...