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The House on Thursday passed a law allowing only doctors enrolled with the general health system (Gesy) to issue prescriptions for medicines covered by the system. The law – a government ...

Police chief Themistos Arnaoutis has refused to answer questions on law enforcement’s response to last Sunday’s protest by hunters, which caused major disruption on the Nicosia-Limassol motorway. Speaking ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to Paris on Thursday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron to participate in a summit on Ukraine and hold a bilateral meeting with ...

MPs on Monday wrapped up discussion of a government bill that would end the hiring freeze on vacancies for full-time jobs in the broader public sector – a policy instituted in 2013 ...

Given its importance to Cypriot consumers and industry, I am returning back to the burning subject of electricity prices. These must come significantly down now and not just wait for ...

Efforts to mitigate the country’s water shortage are intensely focussed on the rapid acquisition of desalination plants, viewed as the most effective way to secure long term adequacy. However, ...

Britain’s Heathrow said flights would resume later on Friday after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe’s busiest airport for the day, stranding thousands of ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Thursday attacked claims made by United Nations High Commission for Refugees (Unhcr) spokeswoman Emilia Strovolidou over alleged pushbacks of migrant boats in Cypriot territorial waters, ...

The ministries of justice, defence and migration and international protection stated on Wednesday that they strongly rejected allegations of illegal pushbacks and the use of force against migrants at sea. ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday announced that a total of four new crossing points will open between Cyprus’ two sides as a result of the enlarged meeting on ...

A boat with a reported 21 people aboard capsized off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, with seven people having been confirmed as dead so far. The boat was reportedly located ...

Talk of Cyprus joining Nato or an affiliated organisation has fizzled out in recent weeks – no surprise there, as the future of Nato itself seems to hang in the balance. ...

Cyprus is facing a deepening energy crisis as homeowners who invested in solar power find themselves repeatedly cut off from the grid. Despite the government’s strong push for renewable ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but sought a number of clarifications and conditions that appeared ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday night gave a long, televised address in which he reviewed and appraised his second year in office, reassuring the public that he has acted with “...

Authorities on Tuesday asserted they are doing what they can to put in check the spread of solar parks on agricultural land, while affected local communities and agriculturalists complained that ...

Cyprus may face power blackouts unless measures are taken to balance electricity production and consumption, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou warned on Monday. He said the government, alongside the Cyprus transmission ...

Even for those who fully understand the minutiae of last year’s local government reform, the ongoing dispute over the role of deputy mayors is bewildering and has become bogged ...

The United Kingdom’s minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty had “very constructive meetings” on Friday in Nicosia, “particularly discussing issues relating to our bilateral relationship, the geopolitical circumstances ...

An MP on Thursday demanded the resignation of the board of directors of the state health services organisation (Okypy), deeming them responsible for the organisation’s spiraling deficits and waste. ...

The Cypriot government has dismissed the board of governors of the English School following allegations that senior members pressured the headteacher to admit a student who failed entrance exams. The ...

Thousands of megawatt-hours of power generated by renewables get discarded each day because Cyprus lacks the storage systems, MPs heard on Tuesday. The House energy committee discussed energy storage in ...

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands are set to arrive in Cyprus late Monday night for a two-day state visit at the invitation of President Nikos Christodoulides, who ...

‘A brain gain rather than a brain drain’ was what President Nikos Christodoulides promised last week when announcing plans to visit London in May with the aim of persuading Cypriots ...