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Cyprus’ National Guard is “on alert because the region is in a state of constant, prolonged instability”, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Wednesday. Speaking at an event to mark ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday hit out at what he called the unnecessary public debate and war of words over Cyprus joining Nato. Kombos, speaking at the House foreign ...

The concrete makers’ association faced a wave of resignations on Monday and may even be forced to dissolve, its chairman Costas Kythreotis said. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he ...

Three and a half years since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood inside the former Dianellos cigarette factory which has functioned as the Turkish Cypriot legislature since 1974 and promised a ...

Domestic violence is on the rise with over 11,000 cases reported in five years, but it appears that police do not always respond speedily to incidents involving foreign nationals. Police have ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Friday warned both sides in the cement workers dispute that the economy had been pushed to the limit over something that could and should have ...

Cyprus is getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, and to this end the country is discussing with the United States how it can take ...

Cyprus and Greece reaffirmed their commitment to institutionalise intergovernmental summits, thus contributing to stability in the eastern Mediterranean and enhancing bilateral cooperation. Speaking after Wednesday’s second intergovernmental summit in ...

The right to a fair trial of two Cypriots jailed for their part in the so-called Dromolaxia scandal, a dodgy land deal that came under investigation in 2013, was not violated, ...

State hospital doctors will go ahead with their planned 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday after a last-ditch meeting with the state health services organisation (Okypy) ended in impasse on ...

The names of nine Cypriots, working as agents of the secret service of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) in Cyprus, at the height of the Cold War, in the seventies ...

Eleven years plus after the devastating bank bail-in of 2013, the clock is ticking for those still seeking restitution. The statute of limitations already expired years ago. Meantime one after another ...

The Defence ministry aims to increase military expenditure to 2 per cent of GDP by 2028, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas told the House finance committee on Friday. To work towards this goal, ...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged ...

The law mandating that public officials including the attorney-general declare their wealth and income, also known as ‘pothen esches’, is legal, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday. The law ...

Hundreds of people, many dressed in white Tshirts, crowded into and around the Archangel Michael church in Frenaros on Tuesday for the funeral of the three young men killed in ...

Large gaps exist in safety awareness and drivers’ “conscience”, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday after four people died on the road over the weekend. A re-revaluation needs to ...

“Energy giants from Gulf states” are interested in possibly drilling for natural gas in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Addressing the Energy symposium in ...

About 650 state hospital doctors, set to receive €19.1 million over and above their salaries, overtime and allowances, to keep up financially with their private sector peers, are to go on strike ...

State hospital doctors will be going on a 48-hour strike at the end of the month, Pasyki union announced on Wednesday after another failed attempt to clinch a deal with ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday promised that the highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will be ready within the next three years, as local residents questioned the viability of ...

Friction flared up in parliament on Monday after the head of the anti-corruption authority declined to commit specifically to investigating former president Nikos Anastasiades in relation to the ‘golden passports’ ...

Sunday’s storms left parts of Cyprus reeling, leaving a fire, tornado, hail, landslides and closed roads in their wake. The public had been cautioned there was an orange weather ...

Shooting up across the island, solar farms are raking it in, boasting profit margins that would make John D Rockefeller go green with envy. The public has noticed, and so ...